I'd love a movie of Assassins but it's such a stagey idea that it would need quite a bit of translation. Maybe the way they approached Chicago or Cabaret, with more of a through line plot?

Is it? I'd be very intrigued to see it but I fear it would suffer from the same issues as the Les Miz movie. Sung-through musicals are very hard to get right on screen and Miss Saigon is fairly polarising (I love it but I couldn't make much of an argument for it if someone said they hated it).

That's why they're adapting the really successful ones.

I have a theory that it's partly to do with those obnoxious 'I Love New York' ads in the 1980s.

What's your take on Jekyll and Hyde? For years I thought I liked it because of the original concept album with Anthony Warlow. He's such a good singer he made me think those songs were great songs. Oh, I was wrong.

Probably the wrong place to bring this up but I hate that impression because it sounds absolutely nothing like the real ALW. I realise that's probably the point and it's just a bizarre joke, but I find it so grating

That's what I was thinking!

I retract my earlier flip comment.

Oh really? Gross.

You're free to disagree, but that's patently not the definition of a jukebox musical, unless you count Jesus Christ Superstar and Tommy as jukebox musicals too.

Not really a jukebox musical. Billie-Joe Armstrong at least thinks the album tells a complete story by itself and has an inherent plot.

"…It came out when I was maybe just starting high school or finishing middle school, and where I grew up, nobody knew who Green Day was."

I remember seeing the first episode of House he was on and going, "Huh, is that the In the Heights guy? That's kinda weird." Turns out that was his whole plan — do a bunch of weird shit so nobody would accuse him of a sophomore slump.

That would be enough.

Well, you came to the right place to avoid people talking about Hamilton. Oh wait.

Murder by Numbers with Zappa's '88 band is fantastic. What's even better is that Zappa calls him Mr. Sting.

Man, if that's true, I want the scene where Ray comes home and sees what Jessa and Adam did to the apartment.

For a second I thought the Helvetica workers were onto her and were messing with her because they were being TOO into her idea. But then, of course they were.

Adam lives with Ray?

He actually seemed more legit angry here than in Star Wars.