“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_S0lS8Ar3xgsV8PNtZ1Gh8Ipy&index=16

Fear me you lords and lady preachersI descend upon your Earth from the skiesI command your very souls you unbelieversBring before me what is mineThe seven seas of RhyeCan 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 mineThe seven seas of RhyeSister I live and I lie for youMister do and I'll dieYou are mine and I possess you belong to you forever ahh!(forever ever ever)Storm the master marathon and I'll fly throughBy 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 youBe gone with you shod and shady senatorsGive out the good leave out the bad evil criesI challenge the mighty Titan and his troubadoursAnd with a smileI'll take you to the seven seas of RhyeIt is violent and nasty. As the song progresses theBohemians fight less and less and instead they twitch andwrithe like automatons. By the end of the song theBohemians have been completely subdued by the helmets, theyhang limply in their laser cages like puppets on lifelessstrings.Now as the song turns to the last bit, the "Do Like to BeBeside the Seaside" bit, the cops are gone leaving only thepathetic 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_S0lS8Ar3xgsV8PNtZ1Gh8Ipy

Open your mind and let me step insideRest your weary head and let your heart decideIt'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 lovePlay 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 lowTake a cyber shopping trip and let yourself go(Let yourself go)Give me your life(Give me your life)don't play hard to getIt's a free world, all you have to do(It's a free world)Is fall in lovePlay 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 begunLove 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 gamePlay the gamePlay the gameKILLER QUEEN AND THE YUPPIESPlay the game

(Instrumental)Give me your life, don't play hard to getIt's a free, free world, all you have to doIs fall in love yeah(Play the game), everybody play my gameKILLER QUEEN

Of love, of loveLove, of love, of loveAt the end of this corporate love fest the super yuppiesall applaud.At this moment of camp, semi fascistic triumph for KillerQueen the Globalsoft board meeting is plunged intodarkness.....

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_S0lS8Ar3xgsV8PNtZ1Gh8Ipy

I want break free. I want to break freeI want to break free from your lies your so self satisfiedI don't need youI've got to break freeGod knows. God knows I want to break freeI've fallen in loveI've fallen in love for the first timeIn love with a world that's for real!I've fallen loveGod knows. God knows I've fallen in loveIt's strange but it's true - hey!I know I'm different there's so much I have to doBut I have to be sure. When I walk out that doorOh how I want to be free babyOh how I have to be freeOh how I want to break free!During the instrumental break while Galileo writhes intormented anguish.

Galileo sings on.This existence is wrongI can't get used to living without, living without,living without HopeIt's all a lieI don't want to live aloneBut God knows. Got to make it on my ownSo people can't you seeGod knows I've got toGod knows I need toGod 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_S0lS8Ar3xgsV8PNtZ1Gh8Ipy

SCARAMOUCHE (cont'd)Can anybody find me somebody to love? SCARAMOUCHE + (GIRLS)Each morning I get up I die a littleCan barely stand on my feetTake 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 tohappen.

TEEN QUEEN THREE. Get a virtual life!I work hard (She works hard?) every day of my lifeI work 'til I ache my bonesAt 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 brainAh I've got no common senseI'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 SomebodySomebody Somebody Somebody Find me Somebody find mesomebody to love)Can anybody find me(Anybody find me)Somebody to love?(Ooh ooh To love)