Strawberry
at the Holy Cow - students / profs reveal themselves - why they are there. Rural life connection/1950s musical innocence. Graduation plans, alum in genetic research (cow that produces double choc almond straight from the cow) - busy music
Voice: The ice cream store is closing. [Get permission to use their name]
Aggie enters - no ideas
Panicky character complains about sounds of equipment (music panick)
Visiting buyers to liquidate Babcock (what kind of equipment do they have) - outsourcing threat
Supervisor has already said No to DQ.
Chocolate Almond melt-down
Crew enters - order from bar cheese sandwiches yogurt skim milk
Minor keys:
President's daughter is cox (dates everyone on crew in Pat Boony way), threatens to not row anymore & switch to other brew (i.e. beer) & not compete anymore.
Tennis team enters order buttermilk - react to not having buttermilk (no more buttermilk, no more tennis
Minor key version of 13 song. (Dirge - blues or meloncoly?)
What about the children? Children can't go w/o icecream. What do they get?
Calcium
Bloom in the cheek
Aggie's son askes what is A L U M?
That's what makes pickles pucker? Alum pickles vs pickled
...thinking music...
Talk to the alums
Act ends
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Chocolate - Act 3 [need to mention JD in previous acts]
Students are gathering around computer writing letters (electronically-need to think about time it takes place - would like to keep timeless) to alumni. Threat letters - computer says timeout for ice cream.
Next scene - phone call for Aggie, pres rejects pleas - need to save $ for football. Not only is freezer needed, also need remodeling
President's daughter wants to leave UW due to her life being ruined.
They will row for Michigan
Next scene: medley of 13 flavors for children. Activity continues. Letters sent to alumni
Song: Stamp it lucky - hopeful upbeat repetitive
Postcards - slides of UW scenes - On Wisconsin plays softly in background
INTERLUDE - people parading in front of curtain - int'l alums in multiple languages (with ice cream coming out between foreign words). Show alums in foreign lands getting message.
Spotlight comes up on JD - where would I be today w/o UW Ag. Really good place was the Holy Cow. Wonders about his college sweet heart (Aggie- maybe connected by ice cream)
Too Busy song (JD's part, Alida Rose type song, Aggie has her own version of same song.) / simultaneously singing.
Holy cow - running total of $, receiving post cards. Pledges + checks are not enough ($250k), then new batch of post cards. Freezer explodes
Banana Split Ballet (with movement, not necessarily a ballet) for benefit. Move to get last banana split.
Who was JD?
Aggie finds JD's card.
JD appears in office - Aggie exclaims "Holy Cow!" Romantic meeting - she buys him a confusing ice cream. He always lost his gfs to Ag boys.
...promise of prom - dance? social?
$1M
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Renovation / success. Pres is pouring milk punch
Band plays Ag Rag
Students are gathering around computer writing letters (electronically-need to think about time it takes place - would like to keep timeless) to alumni. Threat letters - computer says timeout for ice cream.
Next scene - phone call for Aggie, pres rejects pleas - need to save $ for football. Not only is freezer needed, also need remodeling
President's daughter wants to leave UW due to her life being ruined.
They will row for Michigan
Next scene: medley of 13 flavors for children. Activity continues. Letters sent to alumni
Song: Stamp it lucky - hopeful upbeat repetitive
Postcards - slides of UW scenes - On Wisconsin plays softly in background
INTERLUDE - people parading in front of curtain - int'l alums in multiple languages (with ice cream coming out between foreign words). Show alums in foreign lands getting message.
Spotlight comes up on JD - where would I be today w/o UW Ag. Really good place was the Holy Cow. Wonders about his college sweet heart (Aggie- maybe connected by ice cream)
Too Busy song (JD's part, Alida Rose type song, Aggie has her own version of same song.) / simultaneously singing.
Holy cow - running total of $, receiving post cards. Pledges + checks are not enough ($250k), then new batch of post cards. Freezer explodes
Banana Split Ballet (with movement, not necessarily a ballet) for benefit. Move to get last banana split.
Who was JD?
Aggie finds JD's card.
JD appears in office - Aggie exclaims "Holy Cow!" Romantic meeting - she buys him a confusing ice cream. He always lost his gfs to Ag boys.
...promise of prom - dance? social?
$1M
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Renovation / success. Pres is pouring milk punch
Band plays Ag Rag
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Vanilla - Getting the production written - Kickoff
Firefly 1- First hash it out meeting between Tom & Pat Cartwright. This took place in the friendly environs of the Firefly Cafe in beautiful Oregon, WI Sunday Nov 4, 2012.
Characters:
“Holy Cow” – student union kind of thing, but decidedly more rural than UW Madison Memorial union (incorporates elements of Babcock Hall), a mix of flavors /
peoples, etc.
Tom's influences relevant to Moosicalorica:
UW in the 1970s-80s (Tom attended from 1977-85):
- Sterling Hall Bombing - 1970
- Timothy Allen - Botany Prof Tom had for Biological Diversity in 1978
Elementary School - Middleton Junction School 1970 (Now West Side Business Club)
"The cat came back", "ash cake" - song and home made desert presented to 5th grade class at Middleton Junction School by an African American UW student bringing his guitar & musicality to rural Middleton to teach diversity lessons to those who experienced only limited contact with other cultures.
Characters:
·John Deere or JD - graduate of UW, successful in Greece & Japan, returns to Babcock Hall.
·
Aggie-female adjunct biology prof , pleasant
with son Andy
·
Retired couple – still in love
·
Crew (8 rowers+cox) –
·
Lord FootTwitch (named for Tom's foot twitch, just added to the play) – 1960s – Mary Quant (white
boots, trouser pants, beatle boots)
Prelude-orchestra plays + train coming, multimedia – slides
coming in periodically throughout show.
3x – last time conductor wave
Curtain closes
Babcock Hall – Vanilla ACT – Rural theme kids wearing cow stuff
Babcock Hall – Vanilla ACT – Rural theme kids wearing cow stuff
·
Various people order icecream – 13% butterfat ballet Waltz with variations in a style appropriate to culture
Various people order icecream – 13% butterfat ballet Waltz with variations in a style appropriate to culture
o Crew
orders icecream 4 strawberries + 4 eating choreography chocolates as if rowing
o Mixed
race couple orders fudge swirl
o Peach
– little old lady
o American
Gothic Farmer – Blackberry
o Children
– chocolate chip
o Teenagers-
butter pecan
o Construction
worker – lemon (tuba / flute)
o Little
old man – mint chocolate chip
o Asian
family – green tea icecream
o Latino
– flavor
o Ballet
– banana splits
o Andy-Aggie
– chocolate almond
o Sundae
-
·
Percussion music – for eating Sundae, holding
cherry by stem (multimedia closeups), experience of eating / savoring etc of
each person – music changes hot fudge ba-na-na.
o Row
row row to cones, heartily down the stream, lickety lickety lickety lick, we
really like ice cream (we really like ice cream
o Row
row row to malts,…
o Row
row row to sundaes …cherries, pineapple, chocolate, nuts
o Row
row row to Pints …we certainly like our ice cream
1st act 2nd scene – closing time
BH closing forever rumor – costs … freezer repair… students ask if true? YES
Song: A message from the President (UW) –
Round table- money for athletics,
1970s tactics – protests, boycott crew race (No, NO, NO)
·
Dirge – What are we going to do? Life w/o ice
cream
Strawberry – starts in Holy cow
·
How are we
gonna get them back to them back to the farm after they’ve seen the U?
(concept, not necessarily the song)
Music- live small band – Tom’s play
Collect names of places for cultural references.
Musical Numbers
1.
Ag Rag- Scott Joplin,
2.
How are we going to keep them down on the farm?...
3.
13% Butterfat , beginning + theme &
variations – people come in (Eagle Heights students) Fred the dog, Andy –
Aggie’s Son
4.
Double Chocolate Almond Melt - ?
5.
Banana Split ballet – kids rainbow skirts, boys?
6.
A Letter to a friend (romantic not stated see
copy Prom dancing fantasy) – postcards to fix machine, charatcter name
(romantic interest –UW-Japan-Greece-philanthropist – Resolution in last scene
7.
Promise for Prom –end -
General: timeless (crossing ages), Beatles, Fantastiks,
Musicman, Dylan,
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