Musicals-Eleanor Rigby-David Press

PAGE ONE.

1.1:

            We’re looking at an OLD WOMAN standing by a window in a CHURCH. The church is decorated with flowers, streamers, and rice on the floor. There’s just been a wedding in the church. The woman is ELEANOR RIGBY.

1. CAPTION:                         Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice where the wedding has been.

1.2 CUT TO:

            A JAR by the window, there’s a set of TEETH in there.

2. CAPTION:                         All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

3. CAPTION:                         Where do they all belong?

1.3 BACK TO:

            The church and the wedding. Take this from the perspective of Rigby as she watches the BRIDE AND GROOM get into a limousine and all of wedding guests cheering them on—showering them with rice and flowers.

4. CAPTION:                         Father McKenzie, writing the words of the sermon no one will hear.

1.4:

            Father McKenzie—a fairly young priest in the sense that his eyes shine with idealistic opportunity. He’s standing at the altar of the church, reciting from his sermon. Eleanor Rigby is the only person in the church.

5. CAPTION:                         No one comes near.

1.5 INSET:

            Same as previous. Eleanor Rigby teeters over and dies right there in the church pew.

NO DIALOGUE.

1.6:

            On Father McKenzie’s hands—he’s wiping dirt from them down towards the glass coffin with Eleanor Rigby in it.

6. CAPTION:                         Eleanor Rigby was buried along with her name. No one was saved.

1.7:

            McKenzie walks towards us, and away from the gravestone that features Rigby’s birth date and death date, no epitaph.

            The credits can hang at the bottom of the page.

7. CAPTION:                         All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

8. CREDITS:                          Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, performed by The Beatles.

Musicals - Wicked and Divine: Dancing Through Life - Perry Kent

I decided to do something a little strange by taking a song from the musical Wicked and matching it with one of the characters from the comic Wicked + Divine.

Panel 1

Exterior, night, outside of a warehouse. Dionysus leans against the wall of a warehouse as he smokes a cigarette. A fangirl gushes just a few feet away from him. Dionysus is fully tricked out in his glowing godly status.

1. FANGIRL: OMG! Dionysus! You’re my total faves!

2. FANGIRL: I use to be so caught up in school--

Panel 2

Dionysus flicks his cigarette away, with a wide smile on his face.

3. DIONYSUS (sing): The trouble with schools is, they always try to teach the wrong lesson

4. DIONYSUS (sing): Believe me, I’ve been kicked out of enough of them to know

Panel 3

Dionysus twirls the fangirl, their hands joined together. The fangirl throws her head back in joy.

5. DIONYSUS (sing): They want you to become less callow

6. DIONYSUS (sing): Less shallow

Panel 4

Dionysus throws open the door of the warehouse, revealing a party raging within. The fangirl looks like she is about to melt with joy.

7. DIONYSUS (sing): But I say: Why invite stress in?

8. DIONYSUS (sing): Stop studying strife, and learn to live the unexamined life

Panel 5

Dionysus beckons the fangirl (and reader) to follow him into the dancing crowd of people inside of the warehouse.

9. DIONYSUS: by...

10. DIONYSUS (sing): ...Dancing through life!

- END -

Musicals – Deadpool LIVE! (But Not Really!): An Epic Musical Extravaganza Event! – MK Stangeland, Jr.

(5 Panels)

(Note – All panels below should be done as if they were taking place inside an indoor theater of some kind.)

Panel 1: DEADPOOL – technically, an actor dressed as DEADPOOL – rides down and across the theater from the back to the stage on a line of some kind. He’s dressed up in full costume, with an Elvis-style costume over it, he’s carrying a guitar that he at least looks like he’s playing, the guitar should resemble a prop ax weapon. Attached to his back by some sort of pole or stick, pointing out to the side, is a yellow box with words written on each side.

SFX: (Epic Music Notes)

YELLOW BOX: Behold my epicness!

MUSIC: (Sung) DEAD-POOL!

Panel 2: DEADPOOL actor lands on the stage amongst the assembled chorus in a way that faces out toward the audience. ‘Ninjas’ – stage crew dressed up to match the background – remove the YELLOW BOX from Panel 1.

A pair of blank screens are in the background, one of which is currently showing a yellow box.

SFX: (Epic Music Notes)

MUSIC (1): (Sung) This is, his show;

MUSIC (2): (Sung) It’s DEAD-POOL!

YELLOW BOX: Aaaaand nailed the landing!

Panel 3: The Chorus pulls the ‘Elvis’ outer costume off ‘DEADPOOL’ as the pull away and dance into the background, leaving ‘DEADPOOL’ in just his classic red and black.

SFX: (Epic Music Notes)

DEADPOOL: (Sung) The star you deserve has arrived!

YELLOW BOX: (With singing) You did paid for him, after all!

Panel 4: ‘DEADPOOL’ leans in towards the audience.

SFX: (Epic Music Notes – Downplayed)

DEADPOOL (1): But just between you and me, I’m not actually Deadpool.

YELLOW BOX: Ha! Joke’s on you!

DEADPOOL (2): The real Deadpool is a very busy man, so he hired me to fill in for him.

Panel 5: The DEADPOOL actor starts walking back as he plays the guitar he’s holding; the chorus and backup singers and dancers move forward again to fill in around him.

SFX: (Epic Music Notes)

DEADPOOL: But let’s just keep that between us!

YELLOW BOX: Or else!

(END PAGE)

Why Musicals?

No. Just... Just no.

Historically, comics and musicals have had a... tumultuous relationship, but they are undeniably intertwined.  From doodled fan art to full-on productions, there's a whole gamut of double-niche entertainment out there, and this week, we're throwing in.

If you're inspired by Annie, or Li'l Abner, or You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, go for it, but let's not limit ourselves.

Haven't seen Singin' in the Rain or West Side Story?  You really should!  They're awesome!  But maybe you want to go a little weirder, like Little Shop of Horrors, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, or The Phantom of the Paradise.  There is an infinite number of productions to visit or revisit.  ()  And there are even more stories to tell.  Just like comics.

Strap in.  We're warming up for a kick line.