Batman the Musical

Talking with my little brother about Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming movie ‘Australia’ (we both really like his earlier films) he mentioned Tim Burton's silver screen musical ‘Sweeney Todd’ (starring Johnny Depp).

A brief discussion evolved and we came up with the idea to create Batman the Musical. Inspired by ‘Dance of the Vampires’ which I saw in Budapest last summer, I couldn’t help fantasizing on how cool such a show would be.

Main ingredients would be the forbidden love between Batman and Catwoman, Gotham’s dark mystery and perhaps the Batmobile in combination with Queen’s ‘I’m in Love with my Car’. Immediately I searched the internet to see if more people came up with the idea.

I was stunned and thrilled to find out Tim Burton and Jim Steinman actually worked on a Batman musical! Ironically the production was cancelled because of the fiasco ‘Dance of the Vampires’ apparently was on Broadway.

This is really one of those moments you feel like all the puzzle pieces fall into place. Because guess what: the songs Steinman wrote are downloadable from this website dedicated to the musical! I don’t think the upcoming Batman-movie will excite me more than these songs do.