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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 30, 2017 16:01:07 GMT
....and DON'T tell me you haven't thought about it! I ricochet between For Good, but not sung by any of that hideous bunch from the show I want that even MORE dreadful version by Sam Tsui and Nick Pitera and yes I want that actual YouTube video to be shown while people hug eachother and sob  Or even more mawkish, Hushabye Mountain. The brilliant thing being I'm not actually asleep I'm DEAD! And and I ain't coming back! That should get 'em crying! I also want someone in a very extravagent long blonde cheap looking wig (male or female, doesn't matter) to literally throw themselves over the coffin and scream "Nooooooooooooooo!" as it's trundling through the curtains. Then it's all back to mine for vol-au-vents so people can eye up my capo di monte collection. What you having for yours? *My mum's having Memory from Cats which I'm not happy about but she's boxed clever and had it put in her will  |
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Post by infofreako on May 30, 2017 16:10:02 GMT
Great topic Burly.
I've always wanted Good Riddance by Green Day as I pop through those curtains but musical theatre wise it would be a choice between For Good and Seasons of Love.
They would of course have to enter the crematorium to Come to the Fun Home
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2017 16:14:35 GMT
I want Defying Gravity to be playing at the end. I want my coffin to rise into the air and then when it is over a large body of water, I want my friends and family to shoot faming arrows at it and for my coffin to burn mid air then the contents of whatever is left of me to fall into the ocean.
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Post by infofreako on May 30, 2017 16:17:34 GMT
I want Defying Gravity to be playing at the end. I want my coffin to rise into the air and then when it is over a large body of water, I want my friends and family to shoot faming arrows at it and for my coffin to burn mid air then the contents of whatever is left of me to fall into the ocean. Little bit OTT. What's the downgrade option |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2017 16:20:06 GMT
As my coffin is brought in lifted aloft by a dozen man hunks a'la Elizabeth Taylor's entrance in 'Cleopatra' the church will be filled to the sounds of Ethel Merman's 'Something For The Boys' from her glorious classic disco album:
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2017 16:28:29 GMT
I want Defying Gravity to be playing at the end. I want my coffin to rise into the air and then when it is over a large body of water, I want my friends and family to shoot faming arrows at it and for my coffin to burn mid air then the contents of whatever is left of me to fall into the ocean. Little bit OTT. What's the downgrade option There is no downgrade. I've told many friends this plan! My only hope is we get some warning before I die so they have time for some archery lessons.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2017 17:21:06 GMT
My only hope is we get some warning before I die so they have time for some archery lessons. It'd be ironic if the archery lessons are how you die. On the positive side, the story would give you a kind of immortality. On the negative side, it's not the useful kind of immortality. |
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Post by alece10 on May 30, 2017 17:32:42 GMT
I'd always thought of having Sunday from Sunday In The Park With George as I love it but as I won't be there I thought, what the heck, let them have some fun at my funeral. So I'm having No business like show business, the Ethel Merman disco version and Gotta have a gimmick from Gypsy.
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Post by anniel on May 30, 2017 17:37:38 GMT
In my other life, I take funerals and the funniest song That has been played was Bat out of Hell as the curtains were drawn.....
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Post by sherriebythesea on May 30, 2017 17:41:55 GMT
I'm so low keyed compared to many of you. Quick cremation, no funeral. But there will be a party a month or so later. I have threatened my kids that I will write in my will that, at said party, a Tim Curry impersonator in full costume will be there to sing "I'm Going Home". And if either of them cries it means I win (they seem to have a long standing contest over who can get me the what-ever occasion card that makes me cry the most).
There also has to be red wine in a box and the container with my ashes has to have the inscription "So long and thanks for all the fish".
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2017 17:48:33 GMT
I think I would have a little priest from Sweeney Todd to open the funeral as people are going to the seats to set the tone. Then ito end it there would be and extravaganza of a tap break and some tap dancers would dance on my coffin and go up and down the rows to tap your troubles away from Mack and mable. To end it I would have being alive from company
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Post by andrew on May 30, 2017 17:55:47 GMT
The coffin gets lowered into the ground and then suddenly from several loudspeakers comes Patti yelling
WHATS NEW!
BUENOS AIRES!
For no reason at all.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 30, 2017 18:11:33 GMT
Blimey, there are going to be some very untraditional funerals taking place in half a century or so! I'm far too old fashioned to have anything from a musical at a funeral. I'd probably opt for the second movement of Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem and something from either Mozart's or Faure's requiems. My mother wants the Trio from Der Rosenkavalier. I've told her that if she has it I won't attend her funeral, because I love the music too much to have it ruined by such a sad association.
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Post by hal9000 on May 30, 2017 18:13:24 GMT
I am not going to pay out $$$ for a full drag show I will not be able to watch.
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Post by Pennywise57 on May 30, 2017 18:16:33 GMT
I'll go for "Death will come to everyone, you gotta love life, you gotta love life, you gotta love life insurance!" played on a loop as people walk in.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2017 18:18:43 GMT
On the topic of my actual death though, I've always loved the idea of being the first guy to play Eponine in a major production of Les Mis and actually dying during A Little Fall of Rain. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 30, 2017 20:13:31 GMT
On the topic of my actual death though, I've always loved the idea of being the first guy to play Eponine in a major production of Les Mis and actually dying during A Little Fall of Rain. If the cap fits.... |
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Post by 49thand8th on May 30, 2017 20:17:46 GMT
Hand Me the Wine and the Dice
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Post by couldileaveyou on May 30, 2017 20:29:25 GMT
I want the bootleg of Patti LuPone screaming "Who do you think you are?!"
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Post by infofreako on May 30, 2017 20:42:26 GMT
I might have the Kerry Ellis pins audio then
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Post by theatremadness on May 30, 2017 20:44:08 GMT
I'll have the Les Mis bloopers played on repeat.
For reference:
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2017 20:53:19 GMT
At my cremation, I'm having the hymn 'colours of day' only because the rousing chorus goes 'So light up the fire and let the flame burn' If I somehow know when I'm going to die, I'm going to make a voice recording to be played, telling everyone what I think of them |
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Post by hulmeman on May 30, 2017 21:00:11 GMT
Oh mine is written down already! As you enter the crem "Downtown" Then a funny eulogy from one of my oldest friends, then another friend will read the lyrics "Yesterday when I was young" as a poem (it works and should ensure a few tears). There will then be a few moments silence for those who wish to say a prayer privately. "So long, farewell" from S-O-M for the committal then as you leave the chapel, "The other man's grass is always greener". You will gather by now I'm a massive Petula Clark fan! My ashes will then be scattered off the back of a ferry in Mykonos - my favourite place in the world. Here's the thing, my Greek friend agreed to do the last bit with the comment "It won't be the first time you have been tossed off on the Mykonos ferry." I think perhaps she missed something in translation. ;-)
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 8:40:31 GMT
This is mine
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Post by vabbian on May 31, 2017 9:20:17 GMT
I want my body to be wheeled around the cemetery by Russell Tovey,
to the sound of 'The Trolley Song' - Meet Me in St Louis
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