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- 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 WE WILL ROCK YOU 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 Radio Ga Ga (Ga Ga Kids) #3 I Want To Break Free (Galileo) #4 Somebody To Love (Scaramouche, Girls) #4A The Colonnades (Instrumental) Scene 3. ................................................ 16 Killer Queen, 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 Under Pressure (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 Seven Seas Of Rhye (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 Fat Bottomed Girls (Killer Queen, Yuppies, Queen on track) #19 Another One Bites The Dust (Killer Queen) Scene 5. ................................................ 84 Galileo, Scaramouche #20 Hammer To Fall (Galileo, Scaramouche) Scene 6 ................................................. 88 Buddy, Bohemians, Galileo, Scaramouche #21 These Are The Days Of Our Lives (Buddy, Bohemians) #22 We Are The Champions (Underscore) #22A Bicycle Race (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—Tie Your Mother Down—Short (Underscore) #23C We Will Rock You—Continued (Galileo, Buddy, All) #24 We Are The Champions (Galileo, Principals, Company) #25 Bows (Company) #26 Bohemian Rhapsody (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--American Idol! 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-slash-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