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Question: I've decided to write a musical!?
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 crap ‘em out my whole
And that’s the way it goes”

What do you think so far!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
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-- crap em out my hole -- not whole!.

Improve your use of language and you really might have something!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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,
MarianneWww@QuestionHome@Com

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 LUCKWww@QuestionHome@Com