Help us plan our 2024 season!
The Moppets staff is working to plan the 2024 season, and we’d like your input!
Our good pal Skyler Goff tells us he’d like to adapt a new show for next season, but he’s having trouble deciding exactly which story he’d like to tell. (Classic Skyler conundrum.) He gave us a list of approximately 11,726 ideas, and we’ve narrowed it down to five.
Use the form below to tell us what you’d like to see next summer! We’ll tally the votes on Monday, August 21, and let Skyler know what to start writing.
“The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexander Dumas is the story of Edmund Dantes, who is betrayed and falsely imprisoned on the eve of his wedding by a group of men who stand to gain from his imprisonment. While imprisoned, Dantes learns the location of the treasure on The Island of Monte Cristo. Dantes escapes from the prison and uses the treasure to become the Count of Monte Cristo. With this new title, Dantes plots his vengeance on the men who stole his life.
(“The Three Musketeers” meets “Hamlet.”)
The longest epic poem in Old English, this is story of Beowulf, who gains fame as a young man by vanquishing the monster Grendel and Grendel’s mother; later, as an aging king, he kills a dragon but dies soon after, honoured and lamented.
(“Vikings” meet Grimes Fairy Tales).
Johnathon Swift’s adventure story (in reality, a misadventure story) involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship’s surgeon, who, because of a series of mishaps en route to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several unknown islands living with people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies, but who, after each adventure, is somehow able to return to his home in England where he recovers from these unusual experiences and then sets out again on a new voyage. (“Alice in Wonderland” meets “A Modest Proposal”).
“The Seven” is Skyler Goff’s adaptation of Akira Kurasawa’s film “The Seven Samurai.” A group of villagers in a post-apocalyptic world must recruit warriors to protect them from an inevitable attack by bandits. With little to give, they only manage to recruit 7 ragtag “warriors” who must overcome their traumas and differences to protect the “innocent” from the evils of the world.
(“The Seven Samurai”/”The Magnificent 7” and “Oceans 11” meets “Mad Max: Fury Road.”)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. This would be a short collection of stories with a frame story, giving a well-rounded look at the life of Sherlock Holmes with a spooky twist.
(Indiana Jones meets “Murder on the Orient Express.”)
