{"id":2482,"date":"2012-01-26T23:35:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T06:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studentlife\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2012-01-26T23:35:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T06:35:42","slug":"writing-a-meta-theatrical-musical-murder-mystery-about-macbeth-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/2012\/01\/26\/writing-a-meta-theatrical-musical-murder-mystery-about-macbeth-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing a Meta-Theatrical, Musical Murder Mystery (About Macbeth) Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fight Call Poster<\/p><\/div>\n

I started composing an original musical with my brother during my sophomore year of high school. The musical, Fight Call<\/em>, is best described as a meta-theatrical murder mystery about Macbeth. (I kid, but it really is part murder mystery, part Macbeth adaptation, part musical comedy). The show features a community theatre production of Macbeth entitled, \u201cMac, The Musical!\u201d The play, Macbeth<\/em>, is known as being cursed in the theatre community, and this production proves that everything that can go wrong really will when the actors start dying and the mildly-insane artistic director demands that the show must go on. Audience members are forced to step in for actors and continue the musical comedy in spite of the chaos.<\/p>\n

This winter break, I had the extremely-fortunate opportunity to attend rehearsals for a professional staged-reading of Fight Call<\/em> taking place in Portland\u2019s \u201cFertile Ground\u201d festival of new theatre. My show was being produced by a professional company of actors, a piano-accompanist, and a music director.<\/p>\n

The only problem was that we didn’t exactly have a piano score. While I had a vocal score, and I had even performed the show with a small group in an earlier staged-reading to demo tracks<\/p>\n

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Piano-Vocal Score for the Opening Number<\/p><\/div>\n

that I recorded, the piano score was still in the process of being completed. I spent the first two weeks of my break transcribing the entirety of the show into a readable and accurate piano score (a very time-consuming task, although much helped by today\u2019s music software \u2013 I digress). Fortunately I had scored some of the songs for piano, but now was the time to add all of the finishing touches, proofread my work, and\u00a0score a few songs that were added after the initial staged-reading.<\/p>\n

After two weeks I handed my score over to the music director, crossed my fingers, and took a break. Rehearsals were in a few days!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lot for one post! I\u2019ll post again soon about rehearsals as soon as I get a chance. I will post lots of rehearsal photos, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n

I’m sure I’ll be posting these again, but while I’m at it, here’s the latest promotional videos for Fight Call. <\/em>Here’s one from a full run-through:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EA3Q236dm_A<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s one from the first music rehearsal:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PjMy5ZkAxv0<\/a><\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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The Full Piano-Vocal Score<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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