"If the end is right it justifies the beans."

March 31, 2012 7:56 AM

The Online Musical started as a 2010 University of Virginia student project to create an interactive online musical based on audience feeback , called Musical: The Online Musical. It continued after that project finished, moving on to mini musicals (Thomas Jefferson: The Musical, Pokemon: The Musical, Where's Waldo?: The Musical), and other musical works (a dub step treatment of Les Miserables). Their most recent project is less musical, more dystopian: The Beanie Baby Hunger Games.

Also: President Snow's Tumblr

posted by ZeusHumms (12 comments total)

You just saved me the $35 it was going to cost to go see "Hunger Games".
posted by HuronBob at 8:11 AM on March 31, 2012 [2 favorites]

I'm still waiting for Big Lebowski: The Musical, featuring the showstopping production number "Forget The Fucking Toe!"
posted by jonmc at 8:16 AM on March 31, 2012 [1 favorite]

and other musical works (a dub step treatment of Les Miserables)

Oh, you didn't post the link to One Day More, which is actually a pretty brilliant video of that song all around, and a more interesting remake of the song.

Really pleased with the quality of voices in those Les Miz remakes, actually.

This is an interesting project all around. Thanks for posting.
posted by hippybear at 8:17 AM on March 31, 2012

Also... the title of this post is entirely from Sondheim's Into The Woods, for those wondering.
posted by hippybear at 8:34 AM on March 31, 2012 [1 favorite]

Oh, dear. Cringe.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 9:02 AM on March 31, 2012

That is not a "dub step treament" of anything.

And it's "dubstep," people. For god's sake.

*throws hands in air*
posted by beaucoupkevin at 9:17 AM on March 31, 2012

"I understand my constituents, and by the transitive property, I understand you."
posted by scunning at 10:47 AM on March 31, 2012 [1 favorite]

beaucoupkevin: "That is not a "dub step treament" of anything. "

Well, 'dub step' was my spell checker being stubborn, 'treatment' was because I stuck for lack of a better term.
posted by ZeusHumms at 10:48 AM on March 31, 2012

The best thing about going to a college with fine arts conservatories was seeing talent being diverted to the utmost silliness. Talented silliness is valuable.
posted by bleep at 11:15 AM on March 31, 2012 [1 favorite]

"If the end is right it justifies the beans."

Am I missing something? Is this supposed to be an original musical? Because that is a lyric from Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.
posted by tzikeh at 1:15 PM on March 31, 2012

*headdesk* reading comprehension fail. I didn't realize that the title was not one of the lyrics from the Beanie Baby Hunger Games.

Thanks, Hippybear.
posted by tzikeh at 1:16 PM on March 31, 2012

Nah, I should have been less coy and more clear with the thread title and the content of the Hunger Games video, which is not a musical at all, just a 11 minute version of the first book, acted out with Beanie Babies.
posted by ZeusHumms at 2:10 PM on March 31, 2012