Submit your license application now to secure your rights.Įach title comes complete with Performance Tracks, Guide Vocal Tracks, Director’s Guide, and 30 Student Scripts. Perusal materials will be available in 30 days. WE WILL ROCK YOU is a musical for our time: a fist-pumping, foot-stomping anthem to individuality.Īll performers must be 18 years of age or under. There are great parts for girls, boys and can include any sized ensemble/chorus, who appear throughout the show.įeaturing chart-topping Queen songs including “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Killer Queen,” “We Will Rock You,” “Somebody To Love,” “We Are the Champions,” and many more, this 70-minute adaptation of the West End show follows two young rebels as they restore rock ‘n’ roll to “the iPlanet” in a post-apocalyptic world. Rock got no reason, rock got no rhyme You better get me to school on time Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock The Musical is a two-hour, two-act show (plus intermission), based on the hit movie. Song keys are changed where needed, songs and scenes are edited for time and content, while keeping the spirit of the original West End show intact. Inspired by and featuring the songs of Queen, this new version of the show is perfect for kids to perform! Through a series of workshops, our musicals are tailor-made for younger actors. Get your tickets today to We Will Rock You and relive or experience for the first time (as did my 10-year-old companion) the excitement and passion of the music of Queen.WE WILL ROCK YOU the authorized 70 minute edition of the West End musical for elementary and middle schools, and youth theatres. Creative and colorful costume design by Casey Boukus helps differentiate and identify the characters, and the choreography by Jennifer Hemphill helps express the story. Justin Cerne’s talented direction keeps the audience interested in the story of We Will Rock You as theatre and not just a concert, guiding his cast with exits and entrances through aisles and energetic action across the stage. And we’d be remiss if we didn’t comment on Scott Corry’s terrific comedic timing as Buddy. Colleen O’Brien does a good job as the evil computer-generated-come-to-life villain Killer Queen, and we love Zach Greer who gives a strong performance as Killer Queen’s crony Commander Khashoggi: we’d like to hear more vocals from him. And all four performers are fantastic in Headlong. Behny as Oz singing No One But You sends tingles through the audience. Rebels Britney & Oz (Alex Deleo and Emily Behny) belt out I Want It All with impressive range and intensity. The vocals of Galileo Figaro (Sean William Fleming), the jittery protagonist with a music tik, and the sassy Scaramouche (Emily Gardenhire) stand out with concert-level quality in solos, with I Want to Break Free and Somebody to Love, duets, and the many ensembles they lead. But you’re really here for the music in this TWN production, and the performances and singing of the cast of twenty is excellent. The plot is deliberately light and fun, a mere backdrop. It’s hard to resist standing in the aisles and singing along until near the end, when this audience participation is encouraged. Superb live music by Issac Foley on guitar, Christopher Fusco on drums, and Music Director Aidan Wells at the keyboard from their visible elevated stage makes this a cross between a rock concert and a musical. Some lyrical adaptation to the music by Queen is done to fit Ben Elton’s story. Dialog cleverly threads in a wide range of popular song lyrics, adding to the tonguein-cheek humor. The play takes a deep dive into rock & roll, with places and character names that are references to famous rock artists and characters in songs by Queen. This Dreamer is prophesied to lead them to the last remaining musical instrument which will restore music and individuality to iPlanet. Celebrating the Queen musical’s 20 th anniversary, the creative team behind the production of ‘We Will Rock You’ at the Empire Theatre in Toowoomba have a sure-fire hit on. They team up with a group of leather-bodice-and-fishnet-clad Bohemians who are looking for the “lost vibe,” fighting the evil corporation and Killer Queen, and waiting for the appearance of a legendary Dreamer. Crabby is desperate to be accepted into the Starfish Band if only he could play the guitar better But then the high tide sweeps him out to sea and he ends up in a different rock pool, one with sand eels, sea lettuces, a crab-eating octopus. Music and lyrics by Queen, story and script by Ben Elton, by arrangement with David Spicer Productions. The story and script by Ben Elton follows a pair of outcasts as they flee from the the evil corporation GlobalSoft and its enforcers led by Commander Khashoggi. Theatre Workshop of Nantucket brings the worldwide hit musical We Will Rock You to its Nantucket stage in Bennett Hall through August 16.
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