So I'm back posting on my blogger account, for a while I was blogging from my own website but that has so many contingency issues as well as google spider issues that I'm jumping off that island and I'm back in the boat. How's that for a weighty analogy?
There have been several major upheavals in recent times and since I'm not sure when I last blogged, I will just blabber away a bit.
Right now, as in this very day/week/month I am writing/promoting/arranging a musical that I had long abandoned when it was merely an acorn. I watched a one star movie from the eighties called 'One Of The Guys' one night and was inspired. The acting and writing wasn't really terrible, in fact it would have been more than passable as musical theatre dialogue. I didn't watch the film and think it would be a great show to musicalise at all, in fact the way the film dealt with music was what had inspired. The music in the film was, like all teen films, pop music. The difference is that unlike music in great 80s teen films like 'The Breakfast Club' that frames itself rather prominently, this music in this film was badly cut, ridiculously quiet and not really adding anything except overlaying the low frequency buzz of super8 camera footage. Anyway I took from the film a desire to make a musical in which the songs were badly placed in the plot and non plot specific. This idea I thankfully took into the direction of musicalising a one star 80s movie. More than that even, a musical of a film with the pop songs used in the film sung by the characters, as lyrically un-intergrated as possible. All this as well as a script full of antiquated 80s dialogue and Gremlins/Ghostbusters high concept situations. I called this abomination Zombie Wedding.
I put a small script together and wrote about four songs (I had mapped out maybe eight songs in the whole show) and then hit a snag when I felt I had muddied the script with farce and a slow burning ark and left it. A long time later I advertised for a collaborator for a different idea and R. C. responded (via Mercury Musical Developments). He didn't like my new idea so I mentioned Zombie Wedding and we went on from there. He came up with a new plot that included the characters, general tone and songs I had already written, and a whole lot more. That happened a few months ago and right now we are nearly half way through writing this show and its going good so far.
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