We Will Rock You

We Will Rock You.

We Will Rock You is a jukebox musical featuring the music of Queen.

Cast

• Tony Vincent - Galileo
• Hannah Jane Fox - Scaramouche
• Sharon D. Clarke - Killer Queen
• Nigel Planer - Pop
• Kerry Ellis - Meat
• Alexander Hanson - Khashoggi
• Nigel Clauzel - Britney

Plot

The story is set exactly 300 years in the future in a vaguely Orwellian world. Earth has been renamed as the "iPlanet" (Planet Mall in older productions) and is controlled by the Globalsoft Corporation. On the iPlanet, mainstream commercial conformity reigns, in which Ga Ga Kids watch the same movies, listen to computer-generated music, wear the same clothes and hold the same thoughts and opinions. Musical instruments are forbidden, and rock music is unknown.

In the newest graduating class is black sheep, Galileo, who has dreams and hears strange words in his head, most of which are lyrics of songs long since lost, though he does not understand their significance. Despite his teacher's advice, Galileo refuses to conform like the rest of his classmates. Galileo is captured by Khashoggi, commander of Globalsoft's police. The teacher also reveals a second anomaly, a young, goth woman named Scaramouche who is openly mocked and derided by her peers. She too is arrested by Khashoggi.

Ruling Globalsoft Corporation is Killer Queen. She has heard of a prophecy that instruments have been hidden somewhere on the iPlanet in the "place of living rock", and a "bright star" will show the way to them. She orders Khashoggi to get to the bottom of the matter and crush the rebel Bohemians who believe in the prophecy. Killer Queen then basks in her power over the iPlanet.

Galileo and Scaramouche wake up in a hospital. They realise that they are kindred spirits, feared by the rest of their society. They flee together from the hospital. Khashoggi has blown up all the rocks on the iPlanet, but cannot find any supposed hidden instruments. Killer queen insists that they have won, and the prophecy will not come to pass.

On the streets, Bohemians Britney and Meat climb out of the sewers, where they have been gathering materials to make musical instruments. Britney is a believer in the Dreamer who will fulfil the prophecy, and insists to the cynical Meat that it's the key to bringing real music back into the world. Brit and Meat hear footsteps approaching, and hide.

Galileo and Scaramouche arrive, with Galileo talking about his belief that he has a destiny. He says that he dreamt a name for the woman: "Scaramouche". Britney and Meat reveal themselves, and accuse Galileo and Scaramouche of being spies, because Galileo keeps spouting words of the "sacred text". Galileo insists that he only hears those words in his head. Britney tests Galileo, singing the first few lines of "Bohemian Rhapsody". Galileo responds correctly with the subsequent lines, and Britney realises that he is the Dreamer of the prophecy. They bring Galileo and Scaramouche to the Heartbreak Hotel, which is located at the ruins of the Tottenham Court Road tube station, where the Bohemians have made their home.

The Bohemians explain to Galileo and Scaramouche that they take their names after singers long gone, and mourn the deaths of those who died young. The group then celebrate the reason rock bands started playing music in the first place, which was for love.

Khashoggi and his police suddenly arrive at the Heartbreak Hotel, where they round up the Bohemians for capture. Britney breaks free and battles the police in order to enable Galileo and Scaramouche to escape, but in the process is killed.

The Ga Ga Kids of the iPlanet move on in their regular fashion. Galileo and Scaramouche have escaped the Heartbreak Hotel, and realise that back at the hospital, tracking devices were installed in their heads. They remove them, and upon realising that they are all that's left of the rebels, they confess their love for each other.

The surviving Bohemians have been rounded up by Khashoggi to be tortured. When he cannot get any information from them about the prophecy, he has them brain-drained. Galileo wakes up, and tells Scaramouche that he had a dream that the Bohemians were sent to the Seven Seas of Rhye. Scaramouche agrees they have to go there, but then Galileo insists that she stay because she's a "chick", to which Scaramouche takes offence. They argue, and decide that both of them will go to the Seven Seas of Rhye, but their relationship will be purely professional.

Back at Globalsoft headquarters Khashoggi reports that the Bohemians are no longer a problem. Killer Queen prematurely starts to celebrate. Khashoggi interrupts her, explaining that Galileo and Scaramouche escaped. Killer Queen declares this is the last time Khashoggi has disappointed her, and has him brain-drained.

Galileo and Scaramouche are making their way to the Seven Seas of Rhye, arguing all the way. At the Seven Seas of Rhye pub in Montreaux, Pop the librarian is serving drinks to the lifeless Bohemians. When Galileo and Scaramouche arrive, Pop explains the full nature of the prophecy to them as inscribed by the three remaining members of the band Queen just before they were sentenced to death (Brian May, his last request being a final guitar solo, apparently delayed his execution for three and a half days). Scaramouche figures out that the bright shining star of the prophecy is rock star Freddie Mercury's statue, and that it's pointing to Wembley Stadium, the "place of living rock". After initially preparing to travel by bicycle, Scaramouche protests that the method "isn't very cool", and so they travel there by motorcycle.

Wembley Stadium is in ruins, with no instruments to be found. Reconciling and their love for each other rekindled, Scaramouche inspires Galileo to perform the opening of "We Will Rock You", and an electric guitar is revealed. Galileo cannot play it, but Scaramouche can. Pop hacks into Globalsoft's network so their music can be heard by everyone on the iPlanet, and Killer Queen is defeated.

After the curtain calls, the entire company performs "Bohemian Rhapsody" as an encore.

Musical numbers

Act I

• "Innuendo" - Freddie Mercury & Ensemble
• "Radio Ga Ga" - Ga Ga Kids
• "I Want to Break Free" - Galileo
• "I Want to Break Free" (Reprise) - Scaramouche
• "Somebody to Love" - Scaramouche & Teen Queens
• "Killer Queen" - Killer Queen & Yuppies
• "Play the Game" - Killer Queen & Yuppies
• "Under Pressure" - Galileo & Scaramouche
• "A Kind of Magic" - Killer Queen, Khashoggi & Yuppies
• "Here Comes Santa!/Don't Stop Me Now" - Ga Ga Kids
• "I Want It All" - Britney & Meat
• "Headlong" - Britney, Meat, Galileo & Scaramouche
• "No-One But You (Only the Good Die Young)" - Meat & Bohemians
• "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" - Britney, Meat, Galileo, Scaramouche & Bohemians

Act II

• "One Vision/Radio Ga Ga" (Reprise) - Ga Ga Kids
• "Who Wants to Live Forever?" - Galileo & Scaramouche
• "Flash" - Bohemians
• "Seven Seas of Rhye" - Khashoggi & Bohemians
• "Fat-Bottomed Girls" - Killer Queen & Yuppies
• "Don't Stop Me Now" (Reprise) - Killer Queen
• "Another One Bites the Dust" - Killer Queen
• "Hammer to Fall" - Galileo & Scaramouche
• "These Are the Days of Our Lives" - Pop & Bohemians
• "Bicycle Race" - Bohemians
• "Headlong" (Reprise) - Galileo, Scaramouche & Pop
• "We Will Rock You" - Galileo & Bohemians
• "We Are the Champions" - Galileo & Ensemble
• "We Will Rock You" (Fast Version) - Ensemble
• "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Entire Cast