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steven_stuart 04:38 am UTC 11/07/10 |
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When we play our guitars, we make Obsidian rock! - Scaramouche 07:23 pm UTC 11/04/10 |
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That's very good. I think Jim's idea of having "All Revved Up" as the opening number is to introduce the Lost Boys to the audience and to have a very upbeat dance number to start things off. Your vision is much more personal (in my opinion). Although not nearly as personal as the Wendy speech that JD recently posted (everyone seemed to like that - where would you place it in the story/show?). I can now see why you have to remove the crash element of "BOOH" with the way you have written your version of "Neverland". Your version, starting with "BOOH" and then moving on to Wendy meeting the Lost Boys before "All Revved Up", is in many ways a more intimate telling of "Neverland". Jim's is more about a big show having a powerful reaction on the audience. "All Revved Up", followed by the workers of Obsidian performing "Life Is A Lemon", followed by Hook's "God Has Left The Building" speech and in Jim's version we are introduced to this big, horrible, post-apocalyptic world called Obsidian where people's blood is being drained from their bodies to produce oil (was that the case in the workshop version you say you read?). I think it used to be set in California but it is now in Manhattan. When they perform "Life Is A Lemon", the uglyness of the huge factory that the wrokers inhabit is driven home by the staging. I may be wrong but I get the impression that you want Obsidian to be a much more gentle and intimate place. Which could work. As you said in another post, different people will get different ideas about the story that the "BOOH" songs suggest. Some people think that the "BOOH" songs do not suggest Peter Pan at all. Meat Loaf (for example) thinks its Beauty And The Beast (which actually makes sense - especially when he is wearing the beast makeup for the "Anything for Love" video). Stuart Beattie thinks the songs suggest small town life in the 1950's, with the main character being like James Dean in "Rebel Without A Cause".
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