“We Will Rock You” Audition Material
Plot:
The time is the future, in a place that was once called Earth. Globalisation is
complete.
Everywhere, the kids watch the same movies, wear the same fashions and think the
same thoughts. It’s a safe, happy, Ga Ga world. Unless you’re a rebel. Unless you
want to Rock. On iPlanet all the musical instruments are banned. The Company
Computers generate tunes and everybody downloads them. It is an age of Boy Bands
and of Girl Bands. Of Boy and Girl Bands. Of Girl Bands with a couple of boys in them
that look like girls anyway. Nothing is left to chance, hits are scheduled years in
advance.
But Resistance is growing. Underneath the gleaming cities, down in the lower depths
live the Bohemians. Rebels who believe that there was once a Golden Age when the
kids formed their own bands and write their own songs. They call that time, The
Rhapsody.
Legend persists that somewhere on iPlanet instruments still exist. Somewhere, the
mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock. The Bohemians
need a hero to find this axe and draw it from stone. Is the one who calls himself
Galileo that man?
But the Ga Ga Cops are also looking for Galileo and if they get him first they will
surely drag him before the Killer Queen and consign him to Oblivion across the
Seven Seas of Rhye. Who is Galileo? Where is the Hairy One’s lost axe? Where is the
place of living rock?
Commander Khashoggi
Khashoggi is the leader of the Ga Ga Cops, and is the Killer Queen's general
dogsbody. He arrests Pop, Galileo, Scaramouche, Britney and Meat in the
musical, but is ultimately brainwashed himself when Galileo and Scaramouche
manage to escape from the Heartbreak Hotel.
Seven Seas of Rhye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYdinKaZsyA&list=PLIodlBTw_S0lS8Ar3xg
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Fear me you lords and lady preachers
I descend upon your Earth from the skies
I command your very souls you unbelievers
Bring before me what is mine
The seven seas of Rhye
Can you hear me you peers and privvy councillors
(Ah)
I stand before you naked to the eyes
(Ah)
I will destroy any man who dares abuse my trust
(Ah)
I swear that you'll be mine
The seven seas of Rhye
Sister I live and I lie for you
Mister do and I'll die
You are mine and I possess you belong to you forever
ahh!
(forever ever ever)
Storm the master marathon and I'll fly through
By flash and thunder fire and I'll survive
(I'll survive, I'll survive)
Then I'll defy the lords of nature and come out alive
(I'll survive, I'll survive,I'll survive, I'll
survive)
Then I'll get you
Be gone with you shod and shady senators
Give out the good leave out the bad evil cries
I challenge the mighty Titan and his troubadours
And with a smile
I'll take you to the seven seas of Rhye
It is violent and nasty. As the song progresses the
Bohemians fight less and less and instead they twitch
and
writhe like automatons. By the end of the song the
Bohemians have been completely subdued by the
helmets, they
hang limply in their laser cages like puppets on
lifeless
strings.
Now as the song turns to the last bit, the "Do Like
to Be
Beside the Seaside" bit, the cops are gone leaving
only the
pathetic Bohemians hanging in their cages limply
singing.
The Killer Queen:
The Killer Queen is the head of the Globalsoft Corporation. With Khashoggi, she
ensures that all music is banned, and anyone who breaks this ban is arrested and
brainwashed. When Galileo discovers the lost instruments at Wembley Stadium,
she is vaporised by the Power Of Rock.
Play The Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff6zBzLQ714&index=6&list=PLIodlBTw_S
0lS8Ar3xgsV8PNtZ1Gh8Ipy
Open your mind and let me step inside
Rest your weary head and let your heart decide
It's so easy when you know the rules
(It's so easy)
It's so easy all you have do
(It's so easy)
Is fall in love
Play the game
(Play the game)
Everybody play the game of love yeah
(Everybody play the game)
When you're feeling down and your resistance is low
Take a cyber shopping trip and let yourself go
(Let yourself go)
Give me your life
(Give me your life)
don't play hard to get
It's a free world, all you have to do
(It's a free world)
Is fall in love
Play the game Yeah!
(Play the game)
Everybody play the game
(Everybody play the game)
Of love ooh yeah
(Of love)
My game of love has just begun
Love runs from my head down to your toes
(Love runs from my head down to your toes)
My love is pumping through your veins
(Play the game)
Driving you insane Oh
(Come come come come)
Play the game
Play the game
Play the game
KILLER QUEEN AND THE YUPPIES
Play the game
(Instrumental)
Give me your life, don't play hard to get
It's a free, free world, all you have to do
Is fall in love yeah
(Play the game), everybody play my game
KILLER QUEEN
Of love, of love
Love, of love, of love
At the end of this corporate love fest the super
yuppies
all applaud.
At this moment of camp, semi fascistic triumph for
Killer
Queen the Globalsoft board meeting is plunged into
darkness.....
Galileo Figaro:
Galileo is arrested by Khashoggi for singing, and is taken to the hospital, where
he meets Scaramouche. He tells her that he hears song lyrics in normal life and
in his dreams. Later, they meet Britney and Meat, which ultimately leads them to
meet Pop, who helps them to rediscover the lost musical instruments.
I
I Want to break free (male)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu4hcHrotZs&index=3&list=PLIodlBTw_S0
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I want break free. I want to break free
I want to break free from your lies your so
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
I've fallen in love for the first time
In love with a world that's for real!
I've fallen love
God knows. God knows I've fallen in love
It's strange but it's true - hey!
I know I'm different there's so much I have
But I have to be sure. When I walk out that
Oh how I want to be free baby
Oh how I have to be free
Oh how I want to break free!
During the instrumental break while Galileo
in
tormented anguish.
Galileo sings on.
This existence is wrong
self
to do
door
writhes
I can't get used to living without, living without,
living without Hope
It's all a lie
I don't want to live alone
But God knows. Got to make it on my own
So people can't you see
God knows I've got to
God knows I need to
God knows I want to break free
Scaramouche:
Scaramouche is arrested for singing and meets Galileo in hospital. Together, they
meet Britney and Meat, then Pop, who helps them to rediscover the lost musical
instruments.
Somebody to Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7xJzpwjl0I&index=4&list=PLIodlBTw_S0l
S8Ar3xgsV8PNtZ1Gh8Ipy
SCARAMOUCHE (cont'd)
Can anybody find me somebody to love?
SCARAMOUCHE + (GIRLS)
Each morning I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
Take a look in the mirror and cry
(Take a look at yourself in the mirror and cry)
Lord what you doin' to me
(Yeah yeah)
I've spent all my years in believing in you
(Ooh believing you)
But I just can't get no relief
(Ooh Ooh Ooh)
Lord, somebody, ooh somebody, somebody
(Lord somebody,somebody)
Can anybody find me
(Anybody find me)
Somebody to love
TEEN QUEEN FIVE
Somebody to love you? Yeah right.
TEEN QUEEN ONE
Hallo-o that is so not going to
happen.
TEEN QUEEN THREE.
Get a virtual life!
I work hard (She works hard?) every day of my life
I work 'til I ache my bones
At the end I go home all on my own
(At the end of the day goes home goes home on her
own)
I go down on my knees and start to pray
(down knees Praise the Lord)
'Til the tears run down from my eyes
(Ooh Ooh Ooh Lord)
Lord, somebody, ooh somebody,
(somebody)
Can anybody find me,
(please anybody find me)
Somebody to love
(She works hard)
Every Day I try I try I try
(Everyday try I try I try)
But everybody wants to put me down
(Ooh)
They say I'm going crazy
(Ooh)
They say I've got a lot of water in my brain
Ah I've got no common sense
I've got nobody left to believe
(she's got nobody left to believe yeah yeah yeah
yeah)
Got no feel, I got no rhythm. I just keep losing my
beat
(You'll just keep losing and losing)
I'm OK, I'm alright. No I ain't gonna face no defeat
(she's alright she's alright yeah)
I just gotta get out of this prison cell
(ooh this prison cell)
Someday I'm gonna be free Lord!
(Someday I'm gonna be free Lord!)
(Find me somebody to love,Find me somebody to love)
Oh, find me find me find
(Find me somebody to love,Find me(me)somebody to love
love)
Ooh
(Find me(me) somebody to love love-Somebody Somebody
Somebody Somebody Somebody Find me Somebody find me
somebody to love)
Can anybody find me
(Anybody find me)
Somebody to love?
(Ooh ooh To love)