- DIRECTOR’S SCRIPT - (SINGLE-SIDED)

Music and Lyrics by QUEEN Story and Script by BEN ELTON

Licenced in Australia and New Zealand by David Spicer Productions. www.davidspicer.com.au [email protected]

4/7/16

Scenes, Characters, Musical Numbers, and Pages

Act I

Prologue ...... 2 Chorus, Freddie (V.O.)

#1 Innuendo (Freddie V.O., Chorus)

Scene 1 ...... 4 Buddy, Khashoggi

Scene 2...... 5 Galileo, Scaramouche, Ga Ga Kids, Ga Ga Teen Queens, Teacher, Khashoggi, Policemen

#2 (Ga Ga Kids) #3 (Galileo) #4 Somebody To Love (Scaramouche, Girls) #4A The Colonnades (Instrumental)

Scene 3...... 16 , Khashoggi, Super Yuppies

#5 Killer Queen (Killer Queen, Super Yuppies) #6 Now I’m Here (Killer Queen, Super Yuppies)

Scene 4...... 22 Galileo, Scaramouche, Doctors

#7 (Galileo, Scaramouche)

Scene 5...... 27 Killer Queen, Khashoggi, Yuppies

#8 A Kind Of Magic (Killer Queen, Khashoggi, Chorus) Scene 6...... 31 Brit, Oz, Galileo, Scaramouche, Chorus

#9 I Want It All (Brit, Oz, Chorus) #10 You’re My Best Friend (Galileo, Scaramouche) #11 Headlong

Scene 7 ...... 45 Brit, Oz, Galileo, Scaramouche

(#11 Headlong cont’d.) (Brit, Oz, Galileo, Scaramouche, Offstage Chorus)

Scene 8 ...... 49 Buddy, Brit, Oz, Galileo, Scaramouche, Bohemians, Khashoggi, Police

#12 No One But You (Oz, Bohemians) #13 Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Brit, Oz, Galileo, Scaramouche, Bohemians) #14 The Fight—Ogre Battle (Instrumental)

Act II

Scene 1...... 66 Khashoggi, Oz, Buddy, Bohemians, Doctors

#15 Flash (Bohemians Offstage) #16 (Khashoggi, Bohemians, Doctors)

Scene 2 ...... 70 Galileo, Scaramouche

#17 Who Wants To Live Forever (Scaramouche, Galileo)

Scene 3...... 76 Galileo, Scaramouche, Voice of Oz Scene 4...... 80 Killer Queen, Yuppies, Khashoggi, Queen (on track)

#18 (Killer Queen, Yuppies, Queen on track) #19 Another One Bites The Dust (Killer Queen)

Scene 5...... 84 Galileo, Scaramouche

#20 (Galileo, Scaramouche)

Scene 6 ...... 88 Buddy, Bohemians, Galileo, Scaramouche

#21 These Are The Days Of Our Lives (Buddy, Bohemians) #22 (Underscore) #22A (Bohemians) #22B Headlong—Reprise (Scaramouche, Galileo, Buddy, Offstage Chorus)

Scene 7 ...... 96 Buddy, Scaramouche, Galileo, Bohemians Killer Queen, Khashoggi, Principals, Company

(#22B Headlong cont’d.)(Buddy, Galileo) #22C Love Of My Life (Underscore) #23 We Will Rock You (Galileo, Buddy, Scaramouche) #23A Killer Queen Final Entrance—Death On One Leg (Underscore) #23B Killer Queen Exit——Short (Underscore) #23C We Will Rock You—Continued (Galileo, Buddy, All) #24 We Are The Champions (Galileo, Principals, Company)

#25 Bows (Company)

#26 (Galileo, Scaramouche, Khashoggi, Killer Queen, Company)

QUEEN THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS, PHIL MCINTYRE ENTERTAINMENTS, TRIBECA THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS, AND NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS PRESENT

WE WILL ROCK YOU

Music and Lyrics QUEEN

Story and Script BEN ELTON ACT ONE

PROLOGUE

(through the darkness the legend scrolls on the screen...)

The time is the future

The place is the iPlanet once called earth Life is lived online No crowd gathers, no band plays

But still there are some that have not forgotten That long ago In a better time Before globalsoft And before internet gaga There was real life There was real love

And for one brief shining moment There was rock!!

#1 INNUENDO

(the lights fade and the magnificent VAST music fills the air...lights, smoke, etc...the music is Innuendo...the voice, FREDDIE’s)

FREDDIE (V.O.) OOH, OHH WHILE THE SUN HANGS IN THE SKY AND THE DESERT HAS SAND WHILE THE WAVES CRASH IN THE SEA AND MEET THE LAND WHILE THERE’S A WIND AND THE STARS AND THE RAINBOW TILL THE MOUNTAINS CRUMBLE INTO THE PLAIN OH

ALL YEAH

FREDDIE WE’LL KEEP ON TRYING

ALL YEAH

FREDDIE TREAD THAT FINE LINE

2 ALL OH, OH, OH TIME

FREDDIE WE’LL KEEP ON TRYIN’ YEAH TILL THE END OF TIME TILL THE END OF TIME

ALL TILL THE END

FREDDIE TILL THE END OF TIME

3 SCENE 1

THE HINTERLAND

(as Innuendo concludes, there are sirens, search lights, the sound of a helicopter...a rock n’ roll rebel figure appears on the run...he is BUDDY, an easy riding, hippy kind of a dude...he holds a videotape in his hand and as the sirens fade, he stuffs it down the back of his pants...then he punches the air)

BUDDY Long Live Rock n’ Roll! I must save the rebel archive! The truth must never be forgotten! I have yet to discover the exact reason why rock and roll died, but my researches suggest that it had something to do with an ancient entertainment phenomenon known as--! Soon new pop stars were being created at such a rate that they were famous for less time than it took to play their records! Culture imploded. Globalsoft activated its mainframe and the kids uploaded their souls.

KHASHOGGI Find the rebel dude. We must bring back the stolen tape. The kids must never know the power of Rock.

4 SCENE 2

VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOL

#2 RADIO GA GA

(the opening drumbeat of RADIO GA GA kicks in...as BUDDY disappears, ranks of clone- like KIDS appear...they have fixed smiles and move with choreographed symmetrical movements...they are dressed not quite identically, but in very similar clothes to each other...happy, kooky and sexlessly sexy...there is something sinister about their smiles and clothes, like STEPFORD KIDS.

GA GA KIDS

GLOBAL SOFT WE SIT ALONE AND WATCH YOUR LIGHT OUR ONLY FRIEND THROUGH TEENAGE NIGHTS AND EVERYTHING WE WANT TO GET WE DOWNLOAD FROM THE INTERNET

NO NEED TO THINK, NO NEED TO FEEL WHEN ONLY CYBER SPACE IS REAL IT MAKES US LAUGH, IT MAKES US CRY IT MAKES US FEEL LIKE WE CAN FLY WE CAN FLY

A BLUEPRINT FOR OUR LIFE ON-LINE TOUCH ANY KEY, THE WORLD IS MINE WE'RE LOST IN SPACE, BUT WE DON'T CARE WITHOUT YOUR LIGHT OUR WORLD'S NOT THERE

COMPLETE CONTROL YOU ARE THE POWER OUR LIVES ARE PROGRAMMED BY THE HOUR GLOBAL SHOW GLOBAL SHOW

ALL WE HEAR IS RADIO GA GA VIDEO GOO GOO INTERNET CA CA ALL WE HEAR IS CYBER SPACE GA GA MARKETING BLAH BLAH NEW ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW GLOBAL SOFT, ALL YOUR WORLD LOVES YOU

5 (dance break...a moment of brief individualism...and then the teachers regain control

GA GA KIDS (CONT’D) WE WATCH OUR SHOWS, WE WATCH YOUR STARS ACROSS OUR SCREENS FOR HOURS AND HOURS WE HARDLY NEED OUR EYES OR EARS WE JUST LOG ON AND DREAMS APPEAR GLOBAL SHOW

WE'RE NOT ALONE, WE HAVE OUR FRIENDS ON CYBER LOVE WE CAN DEPEND SO STICK AROUND 'COS WE'D ALL MISS YOU WE NEED OUR GRAPHICS, NEED OUR VISUAL

COMPLETE CONTROL, YOU ARE THE POWER YOU USE OUR LIVES UP BY THE HOUR GLOBAL SHOW GLOBAL SHOW

ALL WE HEAR IS RADIO GA GA VIDEO GOO GOO INTERNET CA CA ALL WE HEAR IS CYBER SPACE GA GA MARKETING BLAH BLAH NEW ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW GLOBAL SOFT ALL YOUR WORLD LOVES YOU LOVES YOU

(as the song ends, the TEACHER makes the end-of-term announcement)

TEACHER Hey, kids! It’s summer time! Time to go to your bedrooms! Close the curtains! Order Pizza. And get on line!

(the KIDS cheer...as they scatter, a disaffected REBEL FIGURE appears...it is GALILEO...he is different from the GA GA KIDS...a sullen, disaffected teen, he doesn't dress in the happy kooky clothes the others wear. He is the James Dean of his time, a rebel without a cause, sensitive and confused...he has been writing in a notebook...he hurls it down in frustration)

6 GALILEO Hey, You!

GA GA KIDS Yeah. What?

GALILEO You’re all fools. Clones. GA GA sheep.

GA GA KIDS OMG. LOL. HASHTAG. LOSER.

(the KIDS just laugh and scatter, ignoring the weirdo...the TEACHER, however, tries to talk to him at his level)

TEACHER Hey, ‘Dude’, Chillax. It’s graduation. Your life is just beginning.

GALILEO Good. The sooner it begins, the sooner it’s over with.

TEACHER But you have so much potential. You could get a job with any division of Globalsoft you want. How about Music Programming?

GALILEO I don’t want to program music. I want to make music. My own music.

TEACHER (shocked and a little scared) Hey Dude! Cool it! Now you listen to me, WWW--Gordon- at-Tumbler-Face-Space-Twit-dot-com.

GALILEO My name is Galileo Figaro! I want a name not a User ID.

TEACHER Galileo Figaro? Where on the iPlanet did you come up with that?

GALILEO I found it, in a dream. I have dreams you see. And I hear noises. Screeching, thudding, b-banging noises. And words, words drop into my head...too many words. I can’t get no satisfaction. Help! I need somebody. Help! Not just anybody! Oops, I did it again.

7 TEACHER Dude, I get it. I feel your pain. But you live in a perfect world. What more could you possibly want?

#3 I WANT TO BREAK FREE

(GALILEO struggles to find the answer... then it explodes from him, with I Want To Break Free)

GALILEO I WANT TO BREAK FREE I WANT TO BREAK FREE I WANT TO BREAK FREE FROM YOUR LIES YOU’RE SO SELF SATISFIED I DON'T NEED YOU I'VE GOT TO BREAK FREE GOD KNOWS, GOD KNOWS I WANT TO BREAK FREE

I'VE FALLEN IN LOVE I'VE FALLEN IN LOVE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN LOVE WITH A WORLD THAT'S FOR REAL I'VE FALLEN IN LOVE, YEAH GOD KNOWS, GOD KNOWS I'VE FALLEN IN LOVE

IT'S STRANGE BUT IT'S TRUE HEY I KNOW I'M DIFFERENT THERE'S SO MUCH I HAVE TO DO BUT I HAVE TO BE SURE WHEN I WALK OUT THAT DOOR

OH, HOW I WANT TO BE FREE, BABY OH, HOW I HAVE TO BE FREE OH, HOW I WANT TO BREAK FREE

(during the instrumental break GALILEO is taken over by spirit of Rock ‘n’ Roll)

THIS EXISTENCE IS WRONG I CAN'T GET USED TO LIVIN’ WITHOUT LIVIN’ WITHOUT,LIVIN’ WITHOUT HOPE IT'S ALL A LIE I DON'T WANNA LIVE ALONE BUT GOD KNOWS GOT TO MAKE IT ON MY OWN SO PEOPLE CAN'T YOU SEE GOD KNOWS I'VE GOT TO GOD KNOWS I NEED TO GOD KNOWS I WANT TO BREAK FREE YEAH

8 (a ray of light descends on GALILEO and he finds himself immobilized in a laser cage...the TEACHER enters with KASHOGGI, the sinister Chief of Globalsoft police... it turns out the TEACHER is a police spy)

KHASHOGGI You say this boy wants to make his own music?

TEACHER Yes. The little freak says he hears it in his dreams.

KHASHOGGI (to Galileo) You are aware, boy, that music, other than that programmed by the Globalsoft Corporation, is illegal? The act of an individual.

GALILEO I don’t care.

KHASHOGGI (to TEACHER) Has he ever tried to make an instrument?

TEACHER Once in technical studies he was caught trying to stretch plastic string across an empty lunch box.

KHASHOGGI Did he...pluck it?

TEACHER I regret to say he did. Plucked it. Twanged it. And slapped it.

(KHASHOGGI has one of GALILEO’s books...he reads from it)

KHASHOGGI These notebooks that you scribble in, Galileo, so many notebooks--every day you fill another and then hurl it away. Tell me, what is the meaning of... (reads from notebook) ..."A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom?"

GALILEO Duh! It means "A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom." (shocks himself on laser cage) Ow!

9 KHASHOGGI Why are you so concerned with the condition of your Blue Suede Shoes?

GALILEO I don’t know!! Just don’t step on them, that’s all.

KHASHOGGI What do you want, boy?

GALILEO I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want. I really, really, really wanna zig a zig ah.

(KHASHOGGI circles GALILEO’s cage)

KHASHOGGI Don’t play games with me! I’ll make you wish you’d never been born at all.

GALILEO Don’t you think I wish that every day?

TEACHER What is A Yellow Submarine?

KHASHOGGI Where is the Hotel California?

TEACHER What is Gangnam Style?

KHASHOGGI And why is everybody Kung Fu fighting!?

GALILEO I don’t know, I tell you!

KHASHOGGI Grandma got run over by a reindeer! Where do you find this rubbish, boy?

GALILEO I wish I knew! I just wrote it, that’s all! It appears in my head!

(KHASHOGGI signals for laser cage off)

KHASHOGGI Tell me Galileo, do you know what a Bohemian is?

10 GALILEO Haven't you got it yet? I don't know what anything is.

KHASHOGGI Excellent! I see we've found you just in time. Take him away.

GALILEO I was born this way!!!

(COPS remove a protesting GALILEO... KHASHOGGI turns back to the TEACHER)

KHASHOGGI Are there any other potential Bohemians across this year’s graduating classes?

TEACHER I am sorry to have to report, Commander, that there is one other, a repulsive creature, a girl.

(SCARAMOUCHE enters...another rebel, dressed in black...she is a Goth, punk, emo girl, angry and driven with self- loathing...she reprises I Want To Break Free)

SCARAMOUCHE I WANT TO BREAK FREE I WANT TO BREAK FREE I WANT TO BREAK FREE FROM YOUR LIES YOU’RE SO SELF SATISFIED I DON'T NEED YOU I'VE GOT TO BREAK FREE GOD KNOWS, GOD KNOWS I WANT TO BREAK FREE

(she finds GALILEO’s book and begins to read it...just then a bunch of bully GIRLS, Ga Ga teen queens, enter and goad her)

TEEN QUEEN ONE Hey! Check out the loser, girls. What a weirdo.

TEEN QUEEN TWO Can’t your Mom download you any cool clothes to wear?

SCARAMOUCHE I make my own fashion statements.

TEEN QUEEN THREE What’s today’s statement then? Hello...I’m a pathetic, little zero?

11 TEEN QUEEN FOUR You are a disgrace to the Ga Ga Girls.

TEEN QUEENS Yeeeaaaaa.

SCARAMOUCHE I ain’t no Ga Ga Girl!

TEEN QUEEN ONE You can say that again. You’re just a sad loner.

SCARAMOUCHE Yeah. Well I’d rather be a sad loner than a perky tramp.

TEEN QUEENS (sneering) Ooooooooo...

#4 SOMEBODY TO LOVE

(SCARAMOUCHE looks at GALILEO’s book and, finding inspiration there, sings Somebody To Love while being mocked by the GIRLS)

SCARAMOUCHE GIRLS CAN ANYBODY FIND ME SOMEBODY TO SOMEBODY TO LOVE EACH MORNING I GET UP I DIE A LITTLE CAN’T BARELY STAND ON MY FEET TAKE A LOOK TAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR AND IN THE MIRROR CRY AND CRY LORD WHAT YOU’RE DOIN' TO ME YEAH YEAH I HAVE SPENT OOH ALL MY YEARS IN BELIEVING YOU BELIEVING YOU BUT I JUST CAN'T GET NO RELIEF OOH, OOH, OOH LORD LORD SOMEBODY OOH SOMEBODY SOMEBODY SOMEBODY CAN ANYBODY FIND ME ANYBODY FIND ME SOMEBODY TO LOVE

12 TEEN QUEEN FOUR Somebody to love you? Yeah right.

TEEN QUEEN ONE That is so not going to happen.

TEEN QUEEN THREE Get a virtual life.

SCARAMOUCHE GIRLS I WORK HARD SHE WORKS HARD EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE I WORK TILL I ACHE MY BONES AT THE END AT THE END OF THE DAY I TAKE HOME MY BROKEN HEART ALL ON MY GOES HOME OWN GOES HOME ON HER OWN

I GO DOWN DOWN ON MY KNEES AND I START KNEES TO PRAY PRAISE THE LORD 'TIL THE TEARS RUN DOWN FROM MY EYES OOH, OOH, OOH LORD LORD SOMEBODY OOH SOMEBODY SOMEBODY PLEASE CAN ANYBODY FIND ME ANYBODY FIND ME SOMEBODY TO LOVE

SHE WORKS HARD EV’RY DAY EV’RY DAY I TRY I TRY I TRY TRY I TRY I TRY

BUT EVERYBODY WANTS TO PUT ME DOWN OOH THEY SAY I'M GOIN’ CRAZY OOH THEY SAY I GOT A LOT OF WATER AH IN MY BRAIN I GOT NO COMMON SENSE I’VE GOT SHE’S GOT NOBODY LEFT TO BELIEVE IN NOBODY TO BE- YAY-EE YEAH YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH

13 SCARAMOUCHE (CONT’D) GIRLS (CONT’D)

GOT NO FEEL I GOT NO RHYTHM I’LL JUST KEEP LOSING MY BEAT SHE'LL JUST KEEP LOSING AND LOSING

I'M OK, I'M ALRIGHT SHE'S ALRIGHT NO I SHE’S ALRIGHT AIN'T GONNA FACE NO DEFEAT YEAH YEAH I JUST GOTTA GET OUT OF OOH THIS PRISON CELL THIS PRISON CELL SOMEDAY I'M GONNA BE FREE LORD SOMEDAY I'M GONNA BE FREE LORD

FIND ME SOMEBODY TO LOVE FIND ME SOMEBODY TO LOVE FIND OH ME SOMEBODY TO LOVE FIND ME, FIND ME FIND ME ME FIND SOMEBODY TO LOVE OOH FIND ME ME SOMEBODY TO LOVE BO- SOME BO-BO- SOME BO-BO SOMEBODY SOMEBO- SOME SOMEBO- FIND FIND ME SOMEBODY FIND ME SOMEBODY TO LOVE CAN ANYBODY FIND ME ANYBODY FIND ME SOMEBODY TO LOVE SOMEBODY OOH OOH TO SOMEBODY TO LOVE LOVE

#4A THE COLONNADES

(as the song ends, KHASHOGGI enters clapping sarcastically with TWO POLICEMEN)

14 KHASHOGGI How very touching, young lady, but surely you understand that the company loves you? Arrest her.

SCARAMOUCHE Globalsoft equals fascism!!

(SCARAMOUCHE is forcibly removed by the COPS)

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