11 songs that show Friends is a musical waiting to happen
From Smelly Cat to Ross on the keyboard - Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Joey and Phoebe surely have what it takes to make a hit stage show...
- Emma Daly
Published: Friday, 11 April 2014 at 2:16 pm
Forget all the bother about turning Friends into a movie. The ending was actually pretty good for a long-running series with such enormous expectations. Let's not tamper with that. Instead (jazz hands at the ready) let's turn Friends into a musical. Rumours are rife Stateside that such a show might be being considered - and we think it might just work...
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It's bursting with classic (and a few dodgy) musical moments from the ten series. Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Joey and Phoebe can sashay across the stage re-telling the story in glorious live-action detail. And who doesn't want to see a dancing Gunther?
Here's some magical (and musical) moments that prove our point...
Of course, the opening is basically written in stone. Cue The Rembrandts...
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If you don't know the words to Smelly Cat you'll be asked to leave. Immediately.
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OH.MY.GOD it'll be like totally educational, too. Yeah, Grandma didn't move to Peru...
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It can cover all special occasions. Christmas done. Hanukkah done. Spin that dreidel, Rachel.
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The show will owe a lot to Sir Mix A lot, naturally
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Ross can play the show out on the keyboard
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...or the bagpipes
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There's some ready made hits there. Surely the Lion King musical won't mind...
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A group sing-song? That's got musical written all over it
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There can be a bit of drama in the middle
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Even Chandler has a solo in the bag (with a little, er, help from Phoebe)
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Let the auditions begin...
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