#the blue castle musical

[mollywog]

Ignoring the fact that there is already a The Blue Castle musical as @batrachised pointed out, I have been plotting my own:

The show opens to the stage bathed in blue light and Valancy dancing with a shadowy figure (he’s present but not singing.) Valancy is singing a love song - the ‘Blue Castle’ melody: it’s whimsical, playful, romantic - slightly over the top. The rest of the company surrounds the stage looking on adoringly singing back up vocals. The song ends with Valancy spinning, spinning, spinning and collapsing into her bed - the lights dim.

The lights raise seconds later to an unnatural yellow/grey/sepia hue. The set is hideous and garish. Valancy has had a quick costume change from her blue ball gown into her awful nightdress. She then goes on to sing a song introducing the ‘Doss’ melody - a melancholic, haunting, repetitive tune. As the song progresses, the scenery is seamlessly shifting in the background: she’s looking in the mirror, changing, fixing her hair, the bed rolls off stage and the kitchen table rolls in, Mrs. Stirling and Cousin Sickles enter with the kitchen scenery (when they speak/sing - chord dissonance) they’re eating breakfast, they stand and the table rolls out and sitting room rolls in and now they’re piecing a quilt.

During the spoken sections, the Doss melody trots softly along in the background except when Valancy sneaks off to her bedroom to read: she monologues passages of Foster’s while the Blue Castle melody tinkles in the background. The same happens when she asks to go to the library.

Each time the Blue Castle melody plays, it’s recognizable but also slightly varied (because nothing about the blue castle is boring and repetitive)

[Still fleshing this in between part out]

Dr. Trent’s letter (taking some extra creative liberties here and pretending she reads the letter directly before bed.)- Valancy will be seated in her nightgown holding the letter and begin the Doss melody but then 30 second in breaks from it, changing the tune, standing, dropping the letter and taking up the entire stage as she belts about her life so far and her impending death. She’ll be letting down her hair (literally), ripping the neck of her high collared gown, unbuttoning the cuffs and bunching the sleeves up to her elbows. (the lighting shifts from the sepia to a more natural lighting.) the Dust Pile song - needs a big ending: Valancy standing in the middle of the stage with arms spread wide, company behind her bolstering her.

The Stirling Clan, is the comic relief: they look horribly uptight and rigid. The Stirling Clan tune is pretentious to the point of being campy. The dinner party is their big song and covers the first half of the dinner before Valancy starts speaking.

In addition, the Stirling Clan song has a handful of small reprises - including after Valancy takes the job at Roaring Abel’s -> Mrs. Stirling draped across a chaise, as the family surrounds her, pecking her with questions, getting closer and closer to the chaise (sufficiently so) as she tells the story. In the middle of the song Mrs. Stirling gets defensive and stands, everyone takes a step back, and then she dramatically re-collapse onto the chaise.

Uncle Benjamin/ Uncle James/ Uncle Wellington are constantly jockeying to be the lead voice in these songs: cutting each other off and singing over the female voices.

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[kerrymoncherrie]

Valancy singing🎵

translation:

when the grey fog

envelopes the world

under the bow of wind

the silver strings of rain are ringing

i embrace myself

in the scarf made of dreams

and though the fog

though the rain

I’m running to The Blue Castle

Blue roses bloom on the flower beds of dreams

blue buds are pining to the sky

nightingale is singing the blue symphony

In the blue castle

there are beatiful men

they are kneeling before me

i’m greeting them with the nod of my head

i’m the blue princess

In the blue castle

there are fountains like arabesque or like a rainbow

young men with the blue eyes

is asking me to marry him

in the blue castle the sun is shining behind the colorful

stained glass

over there the prince will confess his feelings to me

[4darcy4]

[gloomhorror]

☆

[alwayschasingrainbows]

Another song from Blue Castle musical:

Definitely Barney's song!

Translation:

I've tried different ways,

To escape from the world's guises,

Ways that are delightful for people,

Who have trouble staying in one place,

And who have to leave the main road,

For a trapper trail,

In a direction of freedom,

Like I did,

And, looking life in its face,

To go, to the horizont's shore,

That means,

To always go to meet an adventure,

To go to reach the peaks of impregnable mountains,

To a place, where only the eagles soar,

And where no one has gone before me,

To carve in a snow,

To run after a prey into unknown,

To sail a boat in a sea, where the wildest shore threatens,

The loneliness is my strength,

To be free means to be lonely,

When the sky pitches a tent over my head,

There is nothing else that I need,

I look at the stars,

I listen to the rattling wind,

And I am happy,

Because, to me to be free means to go to meet an adventure,

To go to reach the peaks of impregnable mountains,

To a place, where only the eagles soar,

To a place where no one has gone before me,

Because, to me to be free means to go to meet an adventure,

To go to reach the peaks of impregnable mountains,

To a place, where only the eagles soar,

To a place where no one has gone before me.

[x-heesy]

𝗖𝝠𝗦𝗧𝗟𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝝠𝗜𝗥 𝗖𝝝𝗥𝗘 ⚔️

𝗠𝝝𝝝𝗗 𝗕𝝝𝝠𝗥𝗗 / 𝗜 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟 𝗦𝗣𝝠𝗭𝗘 / 𝗦𝗣𝝠𝗭𝗘 𝗜𝗭 𝝠 𝗣𝗟𝝠𝗭𝗘 / 𝗦𝗞𝗬 𝗣𝝠𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 / 𝗖𝗟𝝝𝗨𝗗 𝗣𝝠𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 / 𝗨𝗣 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗞𝗬 / 𝗠𝝝𝗧𝗛𝝠 𝗦𝗨𝗡 / 𝗠𝗬 𝗛𝝝𝝝𝗗 𝗜𝗦 𝗚𝝝𝝝𝗗 / 𝗕𝝠𝗟𝗖𝝝𝗡𝗬 𝝠𝗥𝗧 / 𝗦𝗨𝗡 𝗟𝝝𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦

𝗣𝗨𝗡𝗞𝗦 𝝠𝗥𝗘𝗡’𝗧 𝗗𝗘𝝠𝗗 ☠️

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[autemtoday]

Recording Location #002

Track 005:: Fairytale. Medley (Introduction)

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Fairytale. The Music Album

LATE NOV-DEC 2024 AD

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AUTEM TODAY RECORDS ®

[aingealbites]

Hi people. I made a Punisher playlist with a friend of mine, and I wanted to share it with y'all.

[possible-streetwear]

ALICE GLASS

[thatscarletflycatcher]

actually now I’m going to inflict Cody Fry on you anyway because this song is so Barney Snaith coded to me 😃

There I finally listened to it :D

Barney Snaith, character of all time :3 and the many songs that fit him ;)

[smile-files]

webkinz gives you an automatic three-day trial of its deluxe membership when you make a new account... i've tried to make the most of it, including desperately finishing this month's deluxe quest and buying a bunch of deluxe-exclusive furniture items

[sunnyskiesdays]

I was watching the Drum Corps International finals with some friends last night and all around there were some great shows, my personal favorites were Carolina Crowns-“Promethean”, Phantom Regiment-“Mynd”, Troopers-“Dance With the Devil” and, Mandarins-“Vieux Carré”

BUT

Blue Devils-“The Romantics” had music from howls moving castle soooo

(I would recommend looking all of these up on YouTube)

((+the Blue Devils-“Bust” was super cool to see as they are located really close to where I grew up up, and I even had some friends march with them this year!!!))

[poor-mans-productions]

Found the perfect skirt for Veronica and a trench coat dress at Goodwill the universe wants me to get back on my musical theater bullshit.

[genitortures]

Fuck what they say. They don’t matter anyway

[mzannthropy]

I quoted the title of this song during the Blue Castle Book Club in the chapter where Valancy defends Barney's at a family gathering--an act she herself doesn't understand. (Because she is in love, geddit.) But listening to it, the song does fit Valancy and Barney, I think.

[autemtoday]

We'll be back!!

Currently engineering your new favorite album!

Fairytale.

by Bennie Castle

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