I've decided to write a musical?

Question

It's set in the human body; it's also a greek tragedy...... with humor. It's a love story between a white blood cell and red blood cell. Kind of like west side story - with the socialist working class "red" blood cells at the bottom of the capitalist system, the military white blood cells, and the middle class intellectual neurons.

I've got these lines:

“I'm just a Lym-pho-cyte

They never taught me how to read or write

Just to bleed and fight - Hey!

They need us to defend all that's right

From pathogens, we are

- The men in white!”

“I was born up the straight and narrow

In some cranial bone marrow”

“We macrophages

You call us

We’re like the yellow pages

We’re the tanks in your ranks

We eat anything that reeks

Of bacterial freaks

We make you a meal through phagocytosis

But hey I’m not f*ggot I just no that

Any pathogen that enters my phagosome

Soon gets broken down into lysosomes

So they fuse and now they’re a phaglysosome

I break ‘em into enzymes

And c**p ‘em out my whole

And that’s the way it goes”

What do you think so far?

Answer 1

Where were you in the 70's? this would have been great for School House Rock! but the average theatre goer might find the subject matter dull.



One question to consider is who is your audience?

Second is who do you expect to perform this show, what types of companies are you marketing it to?

It seems like it could become technically unweildy for the average community theatre group and if you are going for Equity houses, it seems like a hard pitch for your producers to get backers (then again a bunch of cats dancing around a junkyard also sounds bad in theory).

I could see Bio teachers being into it (making biology exciting or interesting, there will always be a niche for that) there is a theatre publisher called Pioneer, that caters to school plays you may want to consider publsihing with them.

Also contact your local musical theatre companies and see they will workshop it for you. So you can see it what it looks like and iron out the kinks. Most theatre professionals workshop their musicals to get backers interested and getting a full fledged production up and running.

GOOD LUCK

Answer 2

It's making me think of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" for some reason... I'm seeing it as over the top but meant to be so... yes? :-)

good luck,

Marianne

Answer 3

I absolutely got the Forum feeling from it too -- and if you are looking for making it an over the top satire that is a good thing.

Your lyrics are nice. In the second line of the last stanza you wrote no when you mean know.

also-- c**p em out my hole  -- not whole.

Improve your use of language and you really might have something.