FML

Who knew Shakespeare would be easy, especially in comparison.

"Just dropped in" and "I am the Walrus" are giving me absolute fits right now. I have to do both of these songs in a show this coming weekend, which we not only just got the 80-page script for, but said script is a "working draft" and not the complete final version. Apparently there is not really an official final script; dialogue has just developed and become over the rehearsal process. So this "working script" comes incomplete not only in dialog, but in song lyrics, hence my fits.

Thank goodness for the internet.

Now I just have to figure out WTF to do with these songs. My songlist also includes:

The Wells Fargo Wagon*
Just dropped in
I am the Walrus
Tubthumping
Backstreet's Back*
Beauty School Drop out*
All You Need is Love
Dancing Queen

* lyrics are of course changed to fit the show

There are also a couple of Spice Girls songs, which are to be done by the person I'm working with.

"What could all these songs possibly have in common?!" you may ask. Only that they are all used in the scriptless show I am doing this next weekend. There are countless Beatles references too, above and beyond the songs performed.

"Tell the story" doesn't really work in this context, since the show is a farce (British Panto) and all of the songs are used not as a storytelling convention, but as fun musical interludes to break up the action.

At least I don't have to introduce the character named Brianna Ulrich Tomasina Transcendental Olivario Nutalicious Sidewinder.