An inhibited accountant who detest musicals struggles to remain sane when he wakes up in a world where everybody sing and dance.

Even without all the subsequent tweaks, I would watch this in a heartbeat! What a hilarious premise! (By the way, my Mitty life would be On Broadway!)

I love every thing about this story. I would watch it if it were made into a movie.

I see what you mean. I've written another iteration of a logline for this story, which I will post shortly. Fortunately I left that part about sanity out of that one... I had to check, though. ;)

Good point by nicholasandrewhalls: it's an insane world he wakes up in: what do you mean "remain sane"?

Good point by nicholasandrewhalls: it's an insane world he wakes up in: what do you mean "remain sane"?

"struggling to remain sane" sounds like a tedious goal. How would I as an audience know whether he has succeeded or failed in achieving his goal? And the stakes implied therein are that if he fails he goes insane ... even though your film STARTS with him waking up in a world where the laws of musical theatre and film are true ... leading me to believe HE HAS ALREADY LOST HIS SANITY. Maybe the stakes need to be higher? (Liar Liar had a lawyer cursed to have to tell the truth trying to keep a promise to his son in order not to lose him, complicated by the fact that he was in the middle of a very important trial).

Thanks.

I like the school play idea. I didn't think it would fit with what I had in mind at first, but then I got an idea on how to integrate it with my idea.

Yes, like the cell phone idea as a trigger. Make him an obnoxious loud uncultured Wall Street trader who gets dragged to the Musical by his girlfriend and their friends, He is rude to them, doesn't want to go, she insists. He's so rude he is peeing when he agrees to go and he drops his cell phone right after agreeing to go into the toilet. He picks up a magical new cell on the way to to the show and takes a cell phone call during the musical, then it starts.

If it's important then he's got an alibi. Like the Billy Murray character in "Groundhog Day" he's got be shown be a certified, selfish, inconsiderate jerk. The call should be inconsequential -- and when he isn't answering calls, he's texting and browsing.