Make-Your-Own Jukebox Musical Game
Make-Your-Own Jukebox Musical Game
Make-Your-Own Jukebox Musical Game#1
Posted: 2/22/09 at 3:01pm
Do a shuffle on your iPod, iTunes account, or other mp3 player. Use the first twenty showtunes that come up to write a truly ludicrous synopsis for some kind of strange musical that involves those songs in that order.
I'll post mine soon, then you can get a clear idea of what I'm talking about.
re: Jukebox Musical Game#2
Posted: 2/22/09 at 3:43pm
Here's my horrific jukebox musical. It needs a good name, though.
A poor young beggar named Christoph receives an unexpected bonus from Eva Peron’s foundation (And The Money Kept Rolling In-- Evita) and decides to leave his trusty cardboard box to move to the bright, shiny city of Paris. His fellow beggars who are still living in poverty are not thrilled (Look Down—Les Miserables). Christoph is unexpectedly accepted into high society where he becomes Paris’ ‘it boy’ and muses over the profound change in his life (A Change In Me—Beauty and the Beast).
Meanwhile, Christoph’s younger brother Douglas is still struggling to achieve a life of prosperity beyond the slums. He is seeking a life as an Olympic triathlete, but is slightly hampered by the fact that he has no arms or legs. His delusional optimism and obsessive love for some hot rich chick named Sarah is the only thing that carries him through life (Go The Distance—Hercules, the Norm Lewis version).
Life is perfect for Christoph until he decides to buy a car (Henry Ford—Ragtime). The shady dealer sells him the greatest car in the world… in exchange for his soul. Only after Christoph agrees does the shady dealer introduce himself to the audience (I Am Aldolpho—The Drowsy Chaperone). He is none other than the evil gang leader whose gang had dismembered Douglas and left him with no arms or legs ten years before—but Christoph has no idea about this.
Meanwhile, the hot rich chick named Sarah is pining away for someone who will rescue her from her overbearing, overprotective billionaire parents (I Know It’s Today—Shrek the Musical demo). She is engaged to a rich, handsome boring guy, but she craves some kind of unpredictability in her life (Just Around The Riverbend—Pocahontas).
Christoph is tooling around town in his new sports car when he spots Sarah from her window and instantly falls in love (Love Changes Everything—Aspects of Love), not knowing that his younger brother also loves her. He also doesn’t know that Aldolpho, who owns his soul, is actually controlling him and is the one who made Christoph fall in love with Sarah, in the hopes that Christoph can win her heart and Aldolpho can use her for his own nefarious purposes. He rejoices that Christoph’s soul is his (Mine, Mine, Mine—Pocahontas).
Douglas sees Christoph, who abandoned him for high fancy society, mooning over his Sarah, and becomes furiously jealous and decides to kill his own brother and THEN enter the Olympic triathalon (Epiphany—Sweeney Todd). Unfortunately, it is difficult to wield a razor when one has no arms or legs, so he falls into despair and sings about how nobody cares about him or any of the other hobo beggars (Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind—A Tale of Two Cities).
Christoph asks Sarah out on a date, and they take a stroll around the park, talking. Aldolpho has disguised himself as a Puerto Rican vendor and sells Sarah a snow cone that is secretly drugged (Piragua—In The Heights). As she falls into a hallucinatory stupor, he drags her to his underground lair (The Phantom of the Opera) while Christoph is powerless to do anything about it because Aldolpho is still controlling his soul. He realizes only his brother is smart enough to help him, but since he abandoned him, he’s not available to help.
Meanwhile, Douglas is furiously hiring hitmen and orchestrating a complex scheme to assassinate his brother (Falcon In The Dive—The Scarlet Pimpernel). After the hitmen leave, he sits alone and pours out his heart, hoping for someone who can love him despite the fact that he’s homicidal and has no arms or legs (Who Will Love Me As I Am—Side Show).
In Aldolpho’s lair, Sarah screams for Christoph to rescue her, but suddenly realizes that she doesn’t even like Christoph, that she only dated him because he reminded her of Douglas, who she had always been forbidden to speak to but always admired. Christoph, however, suddenly realizes that now that Aldolpho’s work is done, he is not longer remotely attracted to Sarah. Douglas hitches a ride—difficult when one has no thumbs—to Christoph’s apartment to observe the assassination of his brother and sings in turbulent counterpart with Sarah about their forbidden love for one another (Sirens—Jane Eyre).
The assassins are approaching Christoph’s house, each brandishing guns (The Gun Song—Assassins). Douglas is preparing to give out the order to kill his brother when he sees an email on the computer screen from Sarah, saying that she only had three minutes to sneak onto Aldolpho’s computer but that she could no longer be with him, and suspects that he never loved her, but asks him to remember her (Think of Me—Phantom of the Opera). Douglas is suddenly elated and calls off the assassination. Just then, though, Christoph bursts through the door and holds a gun to his brother’s throat, threatening to kill him. Aldolpho is controlling Christoph again, and he cannot fight Aldolpho’s superior powers.
Douglas steals a car and drives as fast as he can, but Christoph follows him in the best car ever, which he bought from Aldolpho earlier. They have an insane car chase, culminating in both cars smashing through the wall of Aldopho’s secret lair and running him over.
With Aldolpho dead, the spell is broken, and Christoph is free. Douglas proposes to Sarah, who accepts, and Christoph gives them the best car ever as a wedding gift. Standing on Aldolpho’s dead body, Douglas and Sarah passionately sing about their love for each other andd reams for the future (Wheels of A Dream—Ragtime), oblivious to the fact that the assassins have burst inside and killed Christoph.
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