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Lord of the Flies: The Musical

Lord of the Flies: The Musical

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My creative writing and drama class thinks this is a great concept -- we're going to 'workshop' it. Ideally we'd like to convey the plot with a bare minimum of dialogue. Any key scenes and choreographical suggestions to help us along?

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
My creative writing and drama class thinks this is a great concept -- we're going to 'workshop' it. Ideally we'd like to convey the plot with a bare minimum of dialogue. Any key scenes and choreographical suggestions to help us along?
i think you should add a comedy element. whenever anybody blows through the conch, it makes a loud farting noise.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
My creative writing and drama class thinks this is a great concept -- we're going to 'workshop' it. Ideally we'd like to convey the plot with a bare minimum of dialogue. Any key scenes and choreographical suggestions to help us along?
I cannot currently think of any enterprise more worthy of the creative process!

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Originally posted by Starrman
I cannot currently think of any enterprise more worthy of the creative process!
Bring it on. Two scenes are especially tricky: Piggy's death and Simon's encounter with the severed head. What dance styles would you suggest? I think ballet would be inappropriate for an island setting. What music?

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Originally posted by Blackamp
i think you should add a comedy element. whenever anybody blows through the conch, it makes a loud farting noise.
Since the whole story is funny already, that might be overdoing it, but hey, we play to the crowd.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Bring it on. Two scenes are especially tricky: Piggy's death and Simon's encounter with the severed head. What dance styles would you suggest? I think ballet would be inappropriate for an island setting. What music?
Piggy's death must surely be Wagner's Ring Cycle-esque. Dark brooding sunset, impossible, almost art deco landscape in the background, think Rapture (if you know of Bioshock). Wailing and homo-eroticism in the flights of panicked grief.

For the head encounter I suggest a series of increasing minor key rounds from the wings, growing each time and resulting in a sort of Carmina Burana cacophony till the crescendo sounds like the buzzing of flies which mirrors the realase of chaos to reign supreme on the island. The Lord takes flight in a hosannah of buzzing demonic voices.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Bring it on. Two scenes are especially tricky: Piggy's death and Simon's encounter with the severed head. What dance styles would you suggest? I think ballet would be inappropriate for an island setting. What music?
calypso, with a hint of doom!

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Bring it on. Two scenes are especially tricky: Piggy's death and Simon's encounter with the severed head. What dance styles would you suggest? I think ballet would be inappropriate for an island setting. What music?
i think improv dance and Yoko Ono wailing would do the trick in either scene.