Saturday, April 17, 2004

Musical Chairs : Your Weekly Challenge

I've decided to post a weekly challenge (every Saturday) for the writers and readers of this blog; no prizes aside from the satisfaction of beating your peers in competition. Entries must be received by the following Friday, in the form of comment, e-mail or blog post/link. All very simple.

This weeks challenge is "Musical Chairs" and here is your task. The new Broadway cash-in is to take a washed-up artist's discography and reenvision it as a heart-warming story with ubiquitous singing and dancing. Abba, Billy Joel, Boy George... They all have their own musicals and people other than themselves are making money off of them!!! I would like to make money too. So, you are challenged to take any non-concept album (no Yoshimi, no Sgt. Pepper) from any artist (including the relentless V.A.) and come up with a plot synopsis with song cues. Entries should include a list of characters and should utilize no fewer than 5 songs from the given album. Several independent judges will be pitched each of the musicals, and their opinions will triangulate the winner. Degree of difficulty, creativity, and marketability will factor into the final decision.

Now is your chance to give Jon Bon Jovi (or the like) immortality!