Pitches are out there...
So I made reference previously to two potential shows that as of yesterday, I submitted to Dad's Garage. Now that I've got them out the door, here's the detail:
1) I did subject myself to the 6+hours of pain for something I think might be brilliant and as a result have pitched a show for Dad's new season titled Musical High School Ten - The New, New Class, Senior Year.
The show is a satire of “tween” marketing/entertainment and the ridiculous depictions and contradictions inherent in things like High School Musical, Saved By the Bell, Hannah Montana, American Idol, etc with a little bit of Avenue Q thrown in, particularly in Act II. The first act has Zac, Vanessa, Ashley, and the rest of the gang from Musical High School returning for their Senior year at NorthEast Side worrying about their futures, feeling the pressure of having to grow up, winning the big game. and enduring Ashley’s endless machinations to both split up Zac and Vanessa and to make sure she gets to do the star duet with him in the Senior Spring Fling Musicale. Tragedy strikes though when the AV kid who runs all their backing tracks (and who’s name no one can get right) commits suicide. The kids find his note and decide to jazz it up and do a tribute song in his honor, but with no backing tracks, they’ll have to reach deep inside themselves for the music they need to shine. Act 2 Takes picks up 5 years later when they’re entering the real world working dead end jobs with no insurance and having to face up to the realities of the world and confused why nobody wants to do any musical numbers with them.
Music: Live Vocals with recorded backing tracks - original music to be written by Deirdre Broderick
Among the Songs I'm writing:
- The Start of Something New…Again
- All of Us Are Special Even the Black Kid
- Staring Into the Abyss/Nothing Can Stop Us if We Work Together
- Before You Fucked It Up (love ballad)
- Unicorns, Rainbows, Everything Must Die.
2) I mentioned another idea this week, that I thought would be original but has already been done. I wanted to adapt the 1978 Made For TV Moive Kiss Meets The Phantom of the Park to the stage, but a theatre in St. Louis has beaten me to it by only 6 months. This is good though because I spoke with the author and he's sending me their script for us to use!
2008 had one more kick in the ass for me, but screw that shit. I'm headed to berlin next week to see rubberdux and the boys and have a great time and I'll deal with this shit when I get back in 2009.
1) I did subject myself to the 6+hours of pain for something I think might be brilliant and as a result have pitched a show for Dad's new season titled Musical High School Ten - The New, New Class, Senior Year.
The show is a satire of “tween” marketing/entertainment and the ridiculous depictions and contradictions inherent in things like High School Musical, Saved By the Bell, Hannah Montana, American Idol, etc with a little bit of Avenue Q thrown in, particularly in Act II. The first act has Zac, Vanessa, Ashley, and the rest of the gang from Musical High School returning for their Senior year at NorthEast Side worrying about their futures, feeling the pressure of having to grow up, winning the big game. and enduring Ashley’s endless machinations to both split up Zac and Vanessa and to make sure she gets to do the star duet with him in the Senior Spring Fling Musicale. Tragedy strikes though when the AV kid who runs all their backing tracks (and who’s name no one can get right) commits suicide. The kids find his note and decide to jazz it up and do a tribute song in his honor, but with no backing tracks, they’ll have to reach deep inside themselves for the music they need to shine. Act 2 Takes picks up 5 years later when they’re entering the real world working dead end jobs with no insurance and having to face up to the realities of the world and confused why nobody wants to do any musical numbers with them.
Music: Live Vocals with recorded backing tracks - original music to be written by Deirdre Broderick
Among the Songs I'm writing:
- The Start of Something New…Again
- All of Us Are Special Even the Black Kid
- Staring Into the Abyss/Nothing Can Stop Us if We Work Together
- Before You Fucked It Up (love ballad)
- Unicorns, Rainbows, Everything Must Die.
2) I mentioned another idea this week, that I thought would be original but has already been done. I wanted to adapt the 1978 Made For TV Moive Kiss Meets The Phantom of the Park to the stage, but a theatre in St. Louis has beaten me to it by only 6 months. This is good though because I spoke with the author and he's sending me their script for us to use!
2008 had one more kick in the ass for me, but screw that shit. I'm headed to berlin next week to see rubberdux and the boys and have a great time and I'll deal with this shit when I get back in 2009.