my victory in the sports parody contest has encouraged me to make a full-length baseball related parody of all 3 hours of les miserables. I've only seen it once, but i've involuntarily heard the songs enough to know it well enough. I'm not going to be submitting this to amiright because the whole thing will be too long and most of the songs probably won't stand out on their own, but maybe i'll change my mind about individual songs. I'll post my progress in this thread for anyone who's interested.

I just finished the prologue, which is about 800 words long. there are 51 songs in the show, so this could take quite a while.

I just finished the prologue, which is about 800 words long. there are 51 songs in the show, so this could take quite a while.


What a project! Good luck, and we'll be hearing from you in, um, around 2009?

Here we go, Ethan, here we go! (Clap, clap)
Here we go, Ethan, here we go! (Clap, clap)

:o Wow!  That's pretty ambitious, Ethan.  Let me know when it's done.

As a big fan of both Les Mis and baseball I'm eagerly awaiting these!

I finished the two songs that i hadn't heard of before that come after the prologue, and at the end of the day is next. It's long but it should be a lot more fun to write than those other ones.

I can hear already the chorus from the repressed umpires in a rallying cry of fraternitie. etc.:

"You're out! You're out! You got three strikes, you're out!"  ;D

my victory in the sports parody contest has encouraged me to make a full-length baseball related parody of all 3 hours of les miserables

Wow, it could, if it's done properly and carefully become one of the most successful parodies this site has seen. It'll automatically become the largest and most ambitious, but make sure you let us know how it's going!! Don't leave us in suspense, it'll kill us! (if that doesn't the wait for it to be submitted will!!!  ;D)

you just crazy, but u have inspired me, n im thinking of taking on a smaller task of doing just plain general paroides of Joseph and his technicolour dream coat

you just crazy, but u have inspired me, n im thinking of taking on a smaller task of doing just plain general paroides of Joseph and his technicolour dream coat


Hey hey hey! Make sure it doesn't sidetrack our joint parody we're doing! I've been waiting to do a joint parody with someone for ages, but I feel as though I haven't got good enough cred to write one with successful authors. Think of me as the Top 15 artist trying to write a parody with the Number 2 artist - ain't gonna happen

I just finished at the end of the day... (at about 1AM) and i dreamed a dream is next. Everything so far works a lot better as part of the whole than as an individual parody and i expect it to be that way thoughout the whole thing.

And another one done... i think i can finish this before 2009. only about 15,000 words to go.

maybe it won't be quite as long as hugo's 1500!

it won't be anywhere near as long as the book, which is probably over 300,000 words long. A play of that length would probably have to run for 2 days without stopping for 1 performance. I'm taking a break from this at the moment but i'll get back to it.

it won't be anywhere near as long as the book, which is probably over 300,000 words long. A play of that length would probably have to run for 2 days without stopping for 1 performance. I'm taking a break from this at the moment but i'll get back to it.


This is gonna be like the parody equivalent of GTA: San Andreas (for sheer size)!!!!
Forget how long it's gonna take to write, think about how long it's gonna take us to read!!!!!!!  :D