CAVIES: The Musical

[karalianne]

Hi everyone!

Well, I do NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month - http://nanowrimo.org) every November, and I try Script Frenzy (http://scriptfrenzy.org) every April. This year I thought I would write a musical, as I love stage musicals and played my clarinet in the pit orchestra for several when I was younger.

I've decided that I want my musical to be about a bunch of guinea pigs in a rescue, and that I definitely want a song about the Rainbow Bridge in there, but that's as far as I've gotten so far. I think I might need to "cast" the musical before I can determine the plot, so I am asking you all to "audition" your cavies for inclusion in the musical!

If you think it would be fun to have a character based on one of your guinea pigs in a musical (which will probably never be produced, to be clear this is primarily just for fun), please reply to this thread! I would need to know your pig's name, sex, age, and "personality," and a photo would be really helpful, too, so I can have an idea of who I'm writing about when I put things together.

(I hope this is allowed here, it really is just for fun and of course I will make the finished product available for people to read once I'm done!)

 

[herriotfan]

I think that's a great idea if it's allowed.

 

[karalianne]

I thought I would give a quick bit of more information about what I envision. I thought it would be fun if CAVIES was done similarly to CATS, but of course there isn't a book of poetry about guinea pigs out there already as there was with TS Eliot. However, I have been known to write poetry and songs both, and I have a bachelor's degree in musical composition. I intend to start by writing the words to the songs and get the melodies and basic song structures sorted. If I get to 100 pages of script before the end of April, I will start orchestrating it and turn it into a proper musical. As I said, I've been involved in plenty of musicals, so I know what I'm getting myself into.

The musical will probably never be produced, but that's so far down the road that I don't think it's worthwhile to really worry about it just yet. Right now I am just trying to figure out the story and characters I will have in it!

So, again, if you think your guinea pig(s) would like to be featured in a musical, please let me know!