Hallelujah! It's all over...
For the past 5 months, my Wednesday afternoons and Friday afternoons have been given over to working with kids on the musical (which I can't name as it could come up in search engines). This musical was apparently on London's West End last year (although I never heard of it whilst I was there, and it didn't last for very long) and apparently has been in Melbourne too (like that's a real benchmark!).
Anyway, it is quite different from your traditional musicals. For starters, we had to rewrite quite a large portion of it, because the lyrics were just too suggestive and crude. Well, its a mickey take of a famous European song contest, right? What do you expect?
We also had to add in some acting vignettes, because otherwise there was no acting needed at all. The clever thing about this show (other than the music) is that the audience gets to vote for the 'winner'. We ran our performance for 3 nights, and the first two nights Iceland won, and the last night was Ireland. It was very successful and the kids seemed to enjoy themselves.
Anyway, I'm just glad its all over!
Here are some youtube clips to give you an idea of what the songs were like (these clips are from the West End performances).
1 comment:
Great that you have finished the musical but have you become an English snob? Melbourne, like thats a real benchmark??? Whats that about?
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