Saturday, 28 February 2009

Faeries ­– our new musical

Our last musical, Stanley’s War was quite sad really; the orphans who’d lost their families; the posh girls who weren’t wanted at home – and the evacuees who were hated by the village gang. Their lives were dull and boring.

In our Faeryland it’s a lot different! Everyone is extremely silly – with funny voices, and funny habits! They all wear very colourful weird costumes and even some of the songs and dances are funny.

Our Faeryland is not a pretty place; it’s black – with flimsy cobwebs, hanging everywhere and strange striped poles with lines of fairylights. We’ll have an extra performing area in the front – with secret hiding places. This’ll make the acting area bigger and bring the audience nearer.

There’ll be lots of noise – with bells, drums, kazoos and whistles! You probably won’t know much of the music – as a lot of it’s from 40 years ago. This is a new challenge, as in the past, we’ve chosen songs you already know from the charts.

Our dances will be energetic, sometimes with a ‘wacky’ feel – bringing comedy into the dance as well just in the dialogue. There’ll also be a chance to do some more contemporary dance – making a stark contrast to the surrounding madness.

All in all, faeries will be a lot of fun – and a lot of very hard work for everyone. There’s 10 dances, about 15 songs and 60 pages of script to learn – and a great deal of running about!

Please don’t tell your friends and families too much about the show; if everyone tells them something funny’s going to happen – then most of the audience won’t have a surprise!

THE FAERIES CHARACTERS

The OggleBoggle Goblins behave like Meercats, scurrying around nervously. They dress like Pirates, wear Harry Potter glasses, and are always shivering with cold!

The FiewieFaerwies are like butterflies, and flutter and cartwheel about with no rhyme or reason. They look very pretty, but they’re very rude and bad-tempered!

The WannaBee-Bees are ‘glamorous’ faeries. They’re two very beautiful Girl-bands, with exotic hair and make-up – but they’re always fighting!

The Mystic Boagles are two special magical Faeries who each have two Assistants. They are the principal players and they’ll have the most to do in the show.


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