I don’t know why this story idea popped into my head this morning, but it did and drove me to write some of its scenes down. I can’t write music, and any lyrics I create feel forced, but I still am surprisingly interested in this concept.
Waking up one morning, a teenage girl seems to be trapped in a broadway musical. People around her sing the thoughts and feelings that they don’t express verbally. Perhaps each person sings a different style of music depending on personality. In her delusions, she sees them get up and dance around, but they stay in the same place whenever they actually talk, causing her to have difficulty knowing where the person actually is. Sometimes, a second version of the person (like a ghost) does the singing and dancing. Large groups are overwhelming until she learns how to focus on just one song. Fainting spells lead to her a hospital where it is discovered that she has terminal brain cancer. She tries to use her new insight to patch the problems around her before she dies.
Scene: her parents sing a duet about how estranged they have become, both still loving the other but feeling alone
Scene: while confiding in her friend, she learns that her friend isn’t really listening and keeps singing how much she is attracted to a boy they both claim to hate
Scene: tough kid sings a song in a classical style while a “nerd” sings in gangsta rap
Scene: an ADHD kid sings an eclectic song of trying to hold a train of thought
Scene: in the cafeteria, a ensemble piece of the difficulties of being a teenager that overwhelms her, bringing on one of her fainting spells
Scene: amidst a larger piece, she hears the song of a teenager contemplating suicide (one of the people she saves)
Scene(s): a girl she knows periodically sings portions of her main concerns throughout the musical. She meets a boy she likes, thinks he’s wonderful, has sex with him, gets ignored, discovers she’s pregnant, has an abortion, tries to fit back in, has named her lost child
Scene: the main character doesn’t sing until the end where she expresses those things she wants to do but will not get the chance to do. Those around her join in. The song seems to end with her death. A chorus of angels then picks up the song and she joins in singing with them.
Waking up one morning, a teenage girl seems to be trapped in a broadway musical. People around her sing the thoughts and feelings that they don’t express verbally. Perhaps each person sings a different style of music depending on personality. In her delusions, she sees them get up and dance around, but they stay in the same place whenever they actually talk, causing her to have difficulty knowing where the person actually is. Sometimes, a second version of the person (like a ghost) does the singing and dancing. Large groups are overwhelming until she learns how to focus on just one song. Fainting spells lead to her a hospital where it is discovered that she has terminal brain cancer. She tries to use her new insight to patch the problems around her before she dies.
Scene: her parents sing a duet about how estranged they have become, both still loving the other but feeling alone
Scene: while confiding in her friend, she learns that her friend isn’t really listening and keeps singing how much she is attracted to a boy they both claim to hate
Scene: tough kid sings a song in a classical style while a “nerd” sings in gangsta rap
Scene: an ADHD kid sings an eclectic song of trying to hold a train of thought
Scene: in the cafeteria, a ensemble piece of the difficulties of being a teenager that overwhelms her, bringing on one of her fainting spells
Scene: amidst a larger piece, she hears the song of a teenager contemplating suicide (one of the people she saves)
Scene(s): a girl she knows periodically sings portions of her main concerns throughout the musical. She meets a boy she likes, thinks he’s wonderful, has sex with him, gets ignored, discovers she’s pregnant, has an abortion, tries to fit back in, has named her lost child
Scene: the main character doesn’t sing until the end where she expresses those things she wants to do but will not get the chance to do. Those around her join in. The song seems to end with her death. A chorus of angels then picks up the song and she joins in singing with them.
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