The Guy Who Didnt Like Musicals Lyrics America Is Great Again
| The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals | |
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| Music | Jeff Blim |
| Lyrics | Jeff Blim |
| Volume | Nick Lang Matt Lang |
| Premiere | October eleven, 2018: Matrix Theater, Los Angeles |
The Guy Who Didn't Similar Musicals is a horror comedy musical with music and lyrics by Jeff Blim and a book by Matt and Nick Lang. Loosely inspired past Invasion of the Body Snatchers, information technology is the 11th stage show produced past StarKid Productions. The show follows Paul, an boilerplate guy "who doesn't like musicals," as his town is overcome past a musical alien hive heed. The show ran from Oct 11, 2018, to November 4, 2018, at the Matrix Theater in Los Angeles, California. A recording of the musical was uploaded to YouTube on December 24, 2018, which has since amassed over five.7 million views as of Nov 14, 2021.[1]
Funding for the show was done through Kickstarter, similarly to StarKid's well-nigh recent shows. The projection raised US$127,792 through 3,419 backers out of its $sixty,000 goal.[2]
Synopsis [edit]
Act i [edit]
A grouping of singing zombies addresses the audience, setting the scene in the tiny town of Hatchetfield and introducing the master grapheme, unremarkable everyman Paul Matthews. ("The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals").
Paul'due south 24-hour interval begins like any other, as he works dutifully at a nondescript role job. Here, we encounter his coworkers: obnoxious womanizer Ted, sweet but unstable Charlotte, and Paul'southward closest friend, sheepish Bill. Charlotte has a phone conversation with her husband Sam, a law officer who dismisses her many attempts at affection. Bill invites Paul to come up to see a touring production of Mamma Mia! with him and his teenage daughter, Alice, with whom Bill feels he must make an effort to connect after his divorce with his wife. Paul declines, stating that he would "rather exercise annihilation" than go see a musical.
Paul goes to the local coffee shop, Beanie's, where he befriends Emma Perkins, a cute barista who shares his hatred for musicals. As he leaves the coffee store, he is accosted by an activist from Greenpeace, who tries to solicit a donation from him. Their chat is cut off past a rapidly approaching tempest, which alarms townspeople all over Hatchetfield. Charlotte, although cheating on her hubby with Ted, fears for Sam'due south safety; Bill's daughter Alice takes refuge with her girlfriend Deb; and a mysterious man, Professor Hidgens, reacts in awe and horror at his predictions coming to fruition.
The side by side morning time, on his way to work, Paul encounters a group of singing and dancing people on the street, led past the Greenpeace girl he met the day before. The singers recall their by lives and express their newfound happiness through song and dance ("La Dee Dah Dah 24-hour interval"). Paul, securely disturbed, arrives at work, where Neb complains that the performance of Mamma Mia was cancelled after a falling star hit the theatre. Charlotte expresses business organisation about her husband singing unusually well in the shower. Just equally Paul, horrified, begins to connect the dots, he is called into the boss's office. He gives excuses, thinking his boss Mr Davidson is unsatisfied with his piece of work, but Davidson cuts him off, suddenly bursting into vocal to ask Paul virtually his objective in life ("What Do You lot Want, Paul?"). Scared past notwithstanding another incident of inexplicable singing, Paul runs out nether the pretence of getting java. He arrives at Beanie's, where he confides in Emma that he is worried the world may have turned into a musical overnight. Emma, not convinced, excuses herself to sing a tip song with her coworkers Zoey and Nora ("Cup of Roasted Coffee"). After discovering that they added "a whole 'nother A section" to the choreography without her cognition, she quits in exasperation. The customers suddenly begin to cough and choke, whereupon the baristas reveal that they have poisoned the coffee. The customers transform into musical zombies and join the baristas in song ("Cup of Poisoned Java"), chasing Paul and Emma out of the shop.
Paul and Emma meet Bill, Charlotte, and Ted in an alleyway, where they learn that people all over town have inexplicably begun to sing and trip the light fantastic toe. Charlotte reveals that she has called Sam, who arrives singing and dancing. He and his fellow officers, all musical zombies at this indicate, harass Paul and his friends until Ted hits Sam over the head and knocks him out ("Show Me Your Easily"). Emma proposes that they seek help from her biology professor, "doomsday survivalist" Professor Hidgens.
The group arrives at Hidgens' compound, where he reveals that he has been preparing for this exact doomsday scenario for decades. He tells them that the bluish goo found on Sam's skull is the result of an alien invasion and ties the unconscious Sam to a chair for the group's rubber. Ted attempts to convince Charlotte to abandon Sam for him, telling her to upgrade from a scumbag to a sleazeball, just she refuses. When Sam comes to, he begs Charlotte to untie him, professing his love to her through song and reminding her of their lives before their marriage vicious apart. She is unconvinced, until he fakes his death, causing her to free him ("You Tied Upward My Heart"). He then attacks her, ripping out her guts.
Meanwhile, the others head to Hidgens's bar, where an argument arises breaks out betwixt Bill and Ted. Emma and Paul become closer, Emma revealing that after her sister'due south death, she promised herself that she would not dice in Hatchetfield, whilst Paul reveals that his hatred of musicals was inspired by seeing Emma herself perform in Brigadoon in high schoolhouse. Their conversation is interrupted by Charlotte, now a musical zombie as well, and Sam, who attacks Paul ("Join Us (And Die)"). Just in fourth dimension, Professor Hidgens returns, shooting and killing both of them.
Nib receives a phone call from Alice, who is still at school. Pecker instructs her to hide until he tin can come up to become her. Although Ted tells him it's a lost crusade, Paul decides to join Bill on his rescue mission.
Act 2 [edit]
At the loftier school, Paul and Bill search for Alice as Beak panics that he is to arraign for her situation. Paul tries to reassure him that he's wrong, but is interrupted by Alice, now infected every bit well. Alice sings, telling Bill that her death was indeed his fault and he was never a skilful father ("Not Your Seed"). Beak, heartbroken, attempts to impale himself with the shotgun they brought to defend themselves, just Paul stops him and tosses it bated. While Paul is busy comforting Bill, Alice picks upward the shotgun and shoots and kills him. Correct as she is about to attack Paul, the army arrives, scaring her away and knocking Paul out.
Back at Professor Hidgens' chemical compound, Hidgens explains the nature of the conflicting invasion to Emma, describing it as a hivemind. Although Emma realizes how to stop its spread, Hidgens is excited past the peace and unity of a hivemind society and decides to take the aliens' side, tranquilizing Emma. Meanwhile, Paul wakes up and is greeted by General McNamara, who works with a special unit of the U.s.a. Regular army called PEIP. McNamara tells him that if he is able to rescue Emma, the regular army will take a helicopter come pick them up.
Emma wakes up, tied to a chair with Ted. Hidgens opens the gate to the compound, claiming that the only way humans will exist saved from themselves is if they permit the alien invasion proceed. He then goes on to reveal that he has a history in musical theatre, much to the dismay of Emma and Ted. He purposely attracts the aliens by singing, including the opening number of a musical he has been working on called Working Boys, where he reminisces well-nigh his days with his friends in undergrad ("Testify-Stoppin' Number"). His singing attracts the zombies, though he is now too far gone to realize this and thinks that they are his higher friends Greg, Steve, Stu, Mark, Leighton and Chad. The zombies bring together in his song before dragging him off and killing him.
Paul arrives to rescue Emma and Ted and they immediately head for the pickup site, merely the zombies catch upward to them and elevate off Paul. Emma tries to save him but Ted keeps running. He makes information technology to the pickup site and is greeted by PEIP, who have also been infected. McNamara shoots and infects Ted before beginning to sing ("America Is Great Again"). Paul and Emma manage to make information technology to the helicopter subsequently Emma shoots McNamara in the arm and get on. Nevertheless, they realize that the pilot is Emma'southward infected coworker when she begins to sing and pulls a gun on them. The resulting fight causes the helicopter to crash. A piece of rebar ends up in Emma's leg. She tells him to leave her behind and go destroy the meteor to finish the invasion. He reluctantly leaves her and takes a grenade belt along with him.
Several zombies once again address the audition through song ("Let Him Come"), where they laissez passer on the word that the star of the bear witness, Paul, is making his way to the meteor. Paul enters the local theatre, the site of the meteor crash, and is greeted by the reanimated bodies of Bill, Ted, Charlotte, Zoey, Professor Hidgens and Mr. Davidson. They tell him that they are happy now, and that if he destroys the meteor he will likewise die. They ask what he wants, to which he replies that it does non matter. The zombies, nevertheless, disagree. They begin to sing, telling him that they feel there is a song in him and that he must express his feelings through vocal, and to his horror, his proximity to the meteor causes him to sing and trip the light fantastic confronting his volition. Paul begins to switch between singing and talking, fighting for command against the infection. He manages to pull the pivot on a grenade and throw it at the falling star, yelling that he doesn't like musicals ("Let It Out").
A newscast from the neighboring town of Clivesdale states that it has been ii weeks since the events of the show. Emma is in a hospital in Clivesdale and is greeted past Colonel Schaffer, a PEIP agent, who has set a new life and identity for her. Schaffer tells her that in that location were no other survivors, merely that she will be escorted to her new life by a Ben Bridges, who Emma apparently knows well. Ben enters and reveals himself to be Paul. Emma and Paul embrace before Paul begins to sing, telling her she lost. He is joined by other zombies and they sing a medley of previous songs in the bear witness and implore her to join them, explaining that they have finally found happiness. They tell her the catastrophe is "inevitable" and surround and drag her off phase ("Inevitable").
Roles [edit]
Cast [edit]
| Character | Los Angeles (2018) |
|---|---|
| Paul | Jon Matteson |
| Emma, et al. | Lauren Lopez |
| Ted, et al. | Joey Richter |
| Charlotte / Nora / Deb, et al. | Jaime Lyn Beatty |
| Beak, et al. | Corey Dorris |
| Hidgens, et al. | Robert Manion |
| Alice / Zoey, et al. | Mariah Rose Faith |
| Sam / General McNamara / Mr Davidson, et al. | Jeff Blim |
Characters [edit]
- Paul Matthews, a guy who doesn't like musicals and is unsure of what he wants in life. He has a beat out on Emma, and ofttimes visits the java shop she works at equally an excuse to run into her.
- Emma Perkins, a barista who is trying to piece of work her way through community college. She hates Hatchetfield, her task, and musicals.
- Ted, the office asshole. He has been having an thing with Charlotte for some time.
- Charlotte, an anxious woman committed to a failing matrimony with Sam. She is secretly adulterous on Sam with Ted.
- Nora, Emma's boss at Beanie'southward.
- Bill, a divorced father trying to connect with his teenage girl, Alice.
- Alice, a teenage girl who is caught between her parents' divorce and facing the struggles of growing upward.
- Deb, Alice's bad-daughter girlfriend.
- Zoey, a catty college daughter who works with Emma. She loves musical theater, and is also having an thing with Sam.
- Professor Henry Hidgens, Emma'due south biology professor and doomsday survivalist.
- Mr. Davidson, Paul'south laidback boss.
- Sam, Charlotte's cheating husband, a police force officer who is having an affair with Zoey.
- Full general McNamara, a military full general who finds Paul and tries to help. He works for PEIP, a secret system that investigates paranormal, inter-dimensional, and extraterrestrial phenomena.
Creative squad, crew, and musicians [edit]
| Coiffure member[iii] | Task |
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| Nick Lang | Producer, Director |
| Ilana Elroi | Sound Pattern, Engineering |
| Brian Rosenthal | Audio Pattern |
| Corey Lubowich | Scenic Design, Producer |
| Amy Plouff | Breathtaking Charge |
| Sarah Petty | Lighting Design |
| June Saito | Costume Pattern |
| James Tolbert | Choreography |
| Lauren Lopez | Additional Choreography |
| Jade Svenson | Wardrobe/Deck Hand |
| Paul Gabriel | Stage Managing director |
| Matt Dahan | Music Management, Keyboard 1 |
| Josh Fleury | Bass |
| Sam Johnides | Guitar, Keyboard ii |
| Ryan McDiarmid | Drum |
Musical numbers [edit]
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A cast recording was released on December 24, 2018.
Sequels [edit]
A 2d musical entitled Black Friday was produced and performed by Team Starkid in the fall of 2019. The show takes place in Hatchetfield, and features several recurring characters from The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals. The fact that all of the characters in said musical died has led many to theorize that Blackness Fri takes place in an alternate dimension or timeline. The show ran from October 31-December viii, 2019 and featured well-nigh of the original cast and crew members.
A short film titled "Workin' Boys" was announced in 2019 as a reward for Black Friday's Kickstarter campaign. Production of the motion-picture show was delayed due to the COVID-xix pandemic.
A third musical entitled Nerdy Prudes Must Die is currently beingness written by the same writing team of Black Friday. It was going to be performed sometime in 2020 just due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been postponed indefinitely. It is non even so known if any of the cast will return for the third musical.
Critical reception [edit]
The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals received by and large positive reviews from local and online publications.[four] [5] [vi]
Awards [edit]
The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals received 15 nominations in twelve categories at the 2019 BroadwayWorld.com Los Angeles Regional Awards. It was nominated in every category for which it was eligible, that is to say, every local (non-touring) musical category. It won in every category except three. Every histrion in the musical was nominated for their performance except for Jeff Blim. Every nominee in the category All-time Featured Actor in a Musical was from The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals.
| Year | Honour | Category | Nominee | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | BroadwayWorld.com Los Angeles Regional Awards[seven] [8] | All-time Musical - Local | Nominated | |
| Best Leading Actor in a Musical - Local | Jon Matteson | Won | ||
| All-time Leading Actress in a Musical - Local | Lauren Lopez | Nominated | ||
| Best Featured Actor in a Musical - Local | Robert Manion | Won | ||
| Corey Dorris | Nominated | |||
| Joey Richter | Nominated | |||
| Best Featured Actress in a Musical - Local | Jaime Lyn Beatty | Won | ||
| Mariah Rose Faith | Nominated | |||
| Best Director of a Musical - Local | Nick Lang | Nominated | ||
| Best Choreography - Local | James Tolbert | Won | ||
| All-time Musical Director - Local | Matt Dahan | Won | ||
| Best Breathtaking Design - Local | Corey Lubowich | Won | ||
| Best Costume Design - Local | June Saito | Won | ||
| Best Lighting Design - Local | Sarah Petty | Won | ||
| Best Audio Design - Local | Ilana Elroi and Brian Rosenthal | Won | ||
See besides [edit]
- Lists of musicals
References [edit]
- ^ "The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals". YouTube . Retrieved 2020-12-28 .
- ^ "The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals - A StarKid Horror-One-act!". Kickstarter . Retrieved 2019-10-08 .
- ^ a b c "The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals". StarKid Productions . Retrieved 2019-05-30 .
- ^ "Youtube Musical Review: 'The Guy Who Didn't Similar Musicals' is hilarious, horrifying in its underlying message – The Lafayette". www.lafayettestudentnews.com . Retrieved 2019-06-05 .
- ^ Jan. ix, Emily Worrell / six:34 p m; 2019. "Starkid's 'The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals' is campy in the all-time way". Brawl State Daily . Retrieved 2019-06-05 .
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "REVIEW: "THE GUY WHO DIDN'T LIKE MUSICALS" – Thoroughly Modernistic Reviewer". thoroughlymodernreviewer.com . Retrieved 2020-12-28 .
- ^ "December 19th Update: THE GUY WHO DIDN'T LIKE MUSICALS - Matrix Theatre Leads All-time Musical Category in the BWW Los Angeles Awards Voting" BroadwayWorld.com, accessed March 19, 2020
- ^ "Winners Appear For 2019 BroadwayWorld Los Angeles Awards" BroadwayWorld.com, accessed March 19, 2020
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