Why Stop at Box Office With ‘Apes’?
Regarding “Monkeying Around With Sequel Ideas,” Aug. 7: The “Planet of the Apes” sequels won’t end yet. After that there may be Broadway musicals.
In “The Apes and I,” a schoolteacher from England travels by ship to Southeast Asia and is shipwrecked on an uncharted island ruled by orangutans. She whistles a happy tune while the king of the apes orders her to teach his many offspring. “Apes,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s next musical, is about the chimps’ annual ball, where one chimp is chosen to be reborn. A fallen female chimp sings sad songs before climbing a banana tree to heaven.
In “The Producers of the Planet of the Apes,” a gorilla who is a has-been play producer realizes he can make more money by producing a flop so he decides to produce a show that is sure to offend every ape--”Springtime for Humans.”
In “The Music Ape,” a charismatic orangutan con artist tries to convince the humans he can teach them to sing if they will give him all their bananas.
In “Apelahoma!,” a chimp cowboy is in love with a pretty gorilla. They sing and dance and get married and then make their territory a state.
GRACE E. HAMPTON Burbank
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