Rock and Roll High School should be on Broadway!
Sadly no one can even come close to the brilliance of The Ramones. But for the sake of the show, audition unsigned bands who can at least do them justice.
I'm actually cooking up ideas for a stage version.
One idea is a musical number where Miss Togar does the experiment on the mouse. And basically, each line is a different volume level on the machine, up to eleven.
First let's start on level one,
so you'll see what must be done.
Figure out what we must do
as we get to level two.
Crank it to number three,
this music's a menace to you and me.
Before they turn to thugs and whores,
the level stops at number four.
Place the notch at number five,
they are not much more alive.
They are a problem we must fix
before it gets to number six.
Up once more to number seven,
but he won't last past number eleven.
Rock and roll is what I hate,
'specially at number eight.
They think that it's all fine,
even as high as level nine.
Turn it up to number ten,
and now they're in the lion's den.
Pop it up to number eleven
(mouse pops!)
and bad little girls and boys
playing with the devil's toys,
will... NEVER... SEE... HEAVEN!!!
Thank god there is no level 12,
except within the bowels of HELL!
It's a work-in-progress, and the original songs join the Ramones songs, albeit done by whoever is playing The Ramones.
And no, you can't change The Ramones to an ersatsz band. It won't work!
Also, at the end, as they are taken by the cops, Joey then opens up a monologue between the parents and the kids. Essentially, he says that parents did things that THEIR elders forbid, and always swore not to do that to their kids. And then say that they are hypocrites and that kids will do it anyway, and that forbidding it will only make them want it even more. And then Togar says that she never disobeyed her elders. And then Joey says, "but were you happy?". She said that she was supposed to do as she was told, and then he calls her a bitch, because she only assumed that the rock music she hates so much is the cause for the kids' behavior. And then tells her that it was her generation's fault for their behavior, because they blamed what their kids were into for their behavior instead of accepting responsibility. And so on.
Personally, the only person I could think of that I would love to see in it is Idina Menzel (RENT, Wicked) as Miss Togar.
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