First Rave Musical "PLUR"

[thebutterflyconnec]

You guys I saw a the pre-view of this show and its crazy good. The glowstick scenes are so bad ass. If you live in the Dallas Fort WOrth area it's a must see. Plus they are having a party after every show.

PLUR
Conceived By Adam Justin Dietrich and Joshua Reeves Script and Lyrics by Adam Justin Dietrich Music by Joshua Reeves Set by David Ruffin and Joshua Reeves Lighting by Nikki DeShea Smith Choreography by Andrew Tomlinson

Brandon Shelby Brooks is in his mid-twenties. He's a working man. He owns a home with his girlfriend and is on his way to realizing the American dream. Just before his birthday he gets an instant message from his past lover that sends him down nostalgia road into the Rave scene: lights, music, dancing, and ecstasy.

Come experience the rave that sent a generation of youth sneaking out of the mainstream into underground warehouses full of underground music, and eclectic lifestyles. Find out why so many regular people decided the underground was home.

The cast features Oni Kedara as Becca, Suzanne Fordering as Dove, Jason Hernandez as Winky, Andrew Tomlinson as Tom/Pippins, David Novey as Steve/McKale the Bouncer, Haven Cartwright as Monica, Joshua Reeves as DJ Heavy Duty , and Adam Dietrich as Brandon Brooks. Additional cast includes David Conard, Chris Piper, Julie Wilkins, Kelly Tomlinson, and Melanie Carissimi.

PLUR premieres at Rose Marine Theatre November 23-December 2nd on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings at 7:30pm. Tickets are just $10 until November 19th, then only $15.

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[Drica]

So it's like a play about ravers? Pretty sure anyone who'd go to see that would have a hard time sitting still. Not a bad idea, though. I hope that goes well for y'all.

[jimboRocks]

Sounds neat . . . i think. I'm sure it would draw a special kind of crowd (a kind crowd). But i know the difference between people acting like they know anything about the party scene and those who have watched one perfect day (BLAH!) Nevertheless, all the best to them as it seems like a noble quest to try to explain what words all too often fail to even come close to doing for "that feeling".

[Jesus F. Christ]

For some reason I may be up to watch this. It sounds funny.
How is it you have 0 posts, yet we all can see your 1st post there?

[Raybies]

I was looking up Plur the musical and I found this post and I felt compelled to reply-
First of all- This weekend I was at the Fort Worth Convention Center that was hosting the Texas' High school International Theatre Association's Convention.Saturday night we were chosen to preview the first act of PLUR Saturday night and the description in our book of plays for the weekend sounded really interesting. Before the show started, lights were flashing and there was music and the actors raved with glowsticks and break danced and got the crowd pumped up. We were all standing and dancing for about ten minuets while the stage was being set. There was a DJ and a projector flashing images of rainbow zebras and other colorful pictures, and even a video clip of a girl wearing butterfly wings which might have related to a similar character in the show. The musical was awesome until it started.

ACT 1-
show begins.
The microphones are not on. The actors are trying to project over a loud recording of telephones and keyboards and office chatter because it was taking place at work, and they are trying to talk over the noisy convention center where people are talking and eating and taking other classes. I have no idea what the story line was. The microphones were off until they began to sing and then it was luck if they were left on for a conversation.

During the dance numbers, two female dancers didn't know the choreography nearly well enough, and one other was counting the whole time and looking at her feet. The main character knocked his monitor off his desk and smashed it so another character danced off stage with it, and for the rest of the show the main character continued typing with no monitor while there were empty desks and free computers around him.

There were three actors in the audience. The first interaction with the first character was when he jumped into the audience and ran up to her, they sang in each other's face for a moment and he was back to the stage, I don't think she held any significance. The character was later on stage and she seemed as confused as we were, someone asked her "what are you doing here?" and she replied while laughing "Hey...everyone falls at the wheel some times."
The second actor stood in the middle of a scene screaming PLUR! What are you wearing! Do it! Say yes! You know you want to!
The third character wore butterfly wings and screamed about how she would later be reincarnated as the main man's screaming baby and she was going to 'cry and cry and cry and cry and cry!' The scene looked improved because every time the main man was walking away she would bring something random up. "Do you even know the meaning of PLUR?" and then he talked about his girlfriends vagina.
This same butterfly girl was on stage for 10 minuets dying of an ecstasy over dose while no one helped her. during their 20 minuet long on stage rave.

Warning, the scene where two of them are sitting in chairs with their arms straight out is supposed to be them in a car.

The audience was the ages of 14-18, and we watched people do drugs and die on stage, discuss their genital areas, cheat and lie and have affairs, "Tripping Balls" and multicolored shrooms flashed across the projector screen for ten minuets, we were told the message in this musical was to "live free...like in the 1960s the hippies wanted to live free and they ended up having sex and doing drugs and going to parties....OH and live responsibly!" then they invited us to go watch it and attend the 3 hour rave after the show. The second act is supposed to all take place at a rave.

This show was SUCH a bad choice for highschool, at the end they wanted us to stand and dance again, our directors and teachers began running around hissing "sit down NOW". It was embarrassing. This musical is a great idea. The script isn't good, and the singing isn't good, and the dancing isn't good, and the music was cool.


Don't see this, someone needs to rewrite this before a rave musical is laughed at as an idea. It's a really good concept, really bad execution.

[Jesus F. Christ]

Sounds exactly like I would of expected it to be.