Jon and Al Kaplan continue telling Prodigeek about their unique musical talents.  Click here to read part 1 of the interview with creators of Silence: The Musical and 24 Season 2 Musical.

Prodigeek: What can you tell me about the 24 Season 2 Musical? How did that come together?

Kaplans: Our mother kept bothering us to follow up Silence with this “the musical” or that “the musical” and we just couldn’t stand it anymore so we decided to adapt our favorite season of 24. We also liked the idea of doing a musical that was so weirdly specific and even more impossible to stage than Silence was.

Prodigeek: Haha, very true I’m sure

Kaplans: So we wouldn’t have to worry about other people taking it and staging it

Prodigeek: What musicals did your mother suggest?

Kaplans: Our mom would suggest literally anything she saw on cable. She even suggested a musical about her new husband. Which actually would have been funny but only to us.

Prodigeek: I think the 24 musical is funny, even though I prefer season 4 mostly due to my hatred of Kim Bauer and the killer cougar.

Kaplans: That Kim story is the reason we had to do season 2. And Kevin Dillon. As straight seasons, 4 and 5 were our favorite. 2 had more to offer musically.

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There are many things that go into making a brilliant musical, and thankfully Jon and Al Kaplan ignore all of these. These brothers have written a website full of hilarious musical spoofs, from Silence: The Musical based on Silence of the Lambs to the never-demanded 24 Season 2: The Musical.  Silence: The Musical premiered at the New York City Fringe Festival and is currently working its way onto Off-Broadway.  Jon and Al spoke with me about their unique musical repertoire. Click here for part 2 of the interview.

Prodigeek: What made you think Silence of the Lambs needed to be a musical?

Kaplans: We’ve been Buffalo Bill fans our whole lives. We would quote his lines in school. We thought it would be funny to hear Buffalo Bill sing. That was the original impetus and it grew from there. We saw that there was a song called “Would You” in Singin’ in the Rain and “Would You?” is one of our favorite Bill lines.

Prodigeek: What brought you two together to work on it?

Kaplans: We’re brothers, and we’ve worked on other stuff together. Most people think we are the same person anyway, even though one of us is bald. We’ve worked together on stuff since we were kids making home videos (including an epic version of Rambo that has been finally rendered obsolete by Son of Rambow) and we started writing music together during college.

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