Let Theatre The Musical Snow

I attended auditions Monday night for Un-Scripted’s next show: Theatre, The Musical. Christian’s directing the show and he was having problems solidifying his concept for the show. Brainstorming with Mandy and I before the auditions started we hit upon some ways that the show can borrow from Let It Snow in terms of how suggestions are gathered.

The basic idea for the show is to get a suggestion for a playwright from the audience and then perform a musical that playwright might have written had they ever written musicals. It’s essentially a way to do a genre combo show, we’re just limiting the genre’s to Playwright, and Musical.

The problem is, how do you get a playwright? If I’m in the audience and am not familiar with the chosen playwright, will I enjoy the show? What if the performers don’t know the playwright?

Well, in Let It Snow, only one person from the audience was from the town, but the whole audience enjoyed it. The performers certain weren’t from the town either. So the answer is to ask for playwrights the audience likes and is familiar with and then interview them to find out what that playwright means to them. Then we bring their version of that playwright to life.

And it snows at the end.