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A new musical by QUEEN
and Ben Elton, featuring over 30 Queen songs. Directed by Christopher
Renshaw, with choregraphy by Arlene Phillips and designs by Mark Fisher
and Willie Williams. 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 Planet Mall Rock'n'Roll has been banned for centuries.
All musical instruments are banned. The materials from which instruments
were once made are banned. There is no wood, no steel or gut for strings,
no skin for drums, these things are long forgotten. The Company Computers
generate the tunes and the kids download them. Nothing is left to chance
in the pursuit of profit, hits are scheduled year's in advance. Dance
moves are rigidly imposed. "Is this the real life? Is it just fantasy?"
It is the age of Boy Bands and Girl Bands. Of Boy and Girl Bands. Of Girl
Bands with a couple of boys in them that look like girls anyway. Or Andro
Bands, groups of software created sexless cyber stars. All processed.
All manufactured. Dancing in the Ether and lulling the kids into a steep
that has lasted for centuries. "Caught in a landslide, no escape
from reality" But resistance is growing. Underneath the gleaming
cities, down in the lower depths live the Bohemians. Rebels believe that
there was once a Golden Age when kids formed their own bands and wrote
their own songs. The Bohemians dream that one day these lost chores will
be heard once more. They call this his day, The Rhapsody. "Open your
eyes, look up to the skies and see" Legend persists that somewhere
on Planet Mall instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a
great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock. Placed there in the
golden age against a time when it would be needed to inspire the kids
anew. The Bohemians need a hero to find this axe. A crazy rebel with a
heart of solid rock who will draw the guitar from the stone and play the
ancient anthems. "He's just a poor boy. From a poor family"
But the Bohemians must find this hero before the Company does. For if
the Ga Ga Cops get him first they will surely drag him before the Killer
Queen and consign him to oblivion across the Seven Sees Of Rhye. Where
is this axe hero? Where is the Hairy One's lost axe? Where is the place
of living rock?
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