I wonder if during VDT, they could have almost a spooky musical number where the crew is about to enter the dark Island and then in the middle, it's interrupted by a heroic music where Reepicheep tells them to brave the darkness lest it leave a stain on their honor. 

We could have a jaunty song by the Dufflepuds as well, after they are visible again. 

-KingEdTheJust 

@kingedthejust I love that idea!

Makes me want to write lyrics, or at least titles, for those songs. Like "Are You Men or Mice?", or, "Defy the Darkness," for Reep's song, and "Couldn't Have Put it Better Ourselves!" or "What I Always Say Is..." for the Dufflepuds. 

I kind of also envision in The Horse And His Boy, Prince Rabadash singing Gaston's solo line in "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast (where he tries to woo Queen Susan, "Hey, I am a handsome prince and she's a beautiful queen. We're both attractive so we have to be married").

A friend of mine made his own Narnia (mainly LWW) musical about 25 years ago, while he had small children. I think most of the parts were played by children, and it was a very family friendly version. Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend any of the performances, but I heard some of his (and his family's) working on it.

He even wrote a Narnian national anthem. I've forgotten most of the words now (in Norwegian, anyway), but I still remember the music - a merry and rousing tune. And to represent the wide variety of creatures in the Narnian population, he had the tune span two full octaves!  

So a musical for each Narnia book is an idea. It's an idea to have an appropriate setting. For instance, Voyage of the Dawn Treader should have sailing type music. The Horse and His Boy should obviously have some middle eastern type music, especially in Calormen.

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Makes me want to write lyrics, or at least titles, for those songs. Like "Are You Men or Mice?", or, "Defy the Darkness," for Reep's song, and "Couldn't Have Put it Better Ourselves!" or "What I Always Say Is..." for the Dufflepuds. 

Perhaps we should have a little fun with sharing ideas that would work a musical number (opening songs, "I want" songs, villain songs, comedy songs, filler songs, love songs, ending songs).

Here some ideas I have for a villain song-

In Prince Caspian, Miraz could sing about how the stories of the old days are nothing but a fairy tale. It could even overlap with Caspian's longing for the old days.

Since Voyage of the Dawn Treader doesn't have a villain, there wouldn't be a need for a villain song. Although, I suppose you could have each of the characters sing about their inner conflict, sort of like "Confrontation " from Jekyll and Hyde or "Gollum" in Lord of the Rings Musical.

In The Silver Chair, the Lady of the Green Kirtle could sing a very mesmerizing song. When she puts Prince Rilian, the children, and Puddleglum under her control, it could work well as a song.

In The Horse And His Boy, Prince Rabadash could sing about how he wants to marry Susan and his plan to invade Archenland and Narnia.

In The Last Battle, I guess you could have all three of the villains sing a song together or maybe even have Rishda and Ginger sing a song together about their secret plan into using Shift like a puppet.

As for love songs, since the series doesn't have that many romantic couples (given that these are children's books), there's not a really a whole lot of ideas for a love song.

Rabadash and Susan could sing a duet. It's really rare for a villain and an heroine to sing a duet, but it would make an interesting twist. It would be like "Love Is An Open Door" from Frozen.

Then maybe Bree could sing a love song while observing Shasta and Aravis. It would show that a love song isn't always sung as a duet by a couple (though a majority are).

Caspian and Ramandu's daughter could even sing a love duet while the crew is still on Ramandu's Island. It could even take place where Caspian and the crew are getting ready to board back on the Dawn Treader, and he tells her that he hopes to see her again.

Please, feel free to share ideas you might have that would work as a musical number for each category.

Imagine if Narnia was done in opera style, though I think most operas are tragic love stories. Maybe in The Magician's Nephew, the stars could sing in operatic form.