SlowTrav couple played by our moderators David (a real opera singer) and Liz (because she is blond).
Opening: Couple gets off plane at Rome airport. Dancing gypsy cab drivers sing and dance to the song "Jet Lag: It is a heck of a thing".
Couple takes taxi to Rome hotel. Singing cab driver and he passes everyone on the autostrada, flashing his lights, then swerves his way thru Rome traffic.
Couple standing at bar in Tazzo d'Oro with espresso. "Isn't this the best coffee you have ever had?" Dancing and singing baristas behind the counter.
Musical vignette of days in Rome, happy scenes at tourist sites. Bill Thayer appears in the background of each shot.
Couple at EuropeCar desk filling out endless paperwork. Get car and map. Driving out of Rome heading north. Much stopping and starting. Some driving the wrong way down one way street. Couple singing about driving in Italy "Never be daunted, never be daunted".
Couple stop for lunch in Orvieto - dance and song scene in that elevator thing that goes to the main part of town.
Couple arrive at vacation rental - Brigolante near Assisi (this is where Rebecca comes in). Happy vacation rental owners dance and sing their way thru explaining how everything works and where to get groceries. Scene ends with couple going to their idylic Umbrian farmhouse with their idylic children and their idylic lifestyle.
Musical vignette of touring Umbria. Once again, Bill Thayer is in the background of each place. Also Gavin.
Visit to unnamed northern Umbria town where Decobabe and Livinwell sing and dance the couple through the entire town, introducing them to all the locals.
The first week has gone by. Couple pack up and go to Tuscany vacation rental.
You get the idea...
There could be the IperCoop shopping scene featuring putting the coin in the shopping cart. The confrontation with the washing machine. Hanging the clothes on the line - lots of potential here.
And for dramatic tension, the near-divorce in song while in FCO looking for the elevators to the AutoEurope office. Saved by the explicit directions from Slow Trav!
Amy in MA "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posts: 8301 | Location: Newton (outside Boston), MA | Registered: 17 June 2001
Lake Trasimeno sounds good, but what about a big production number on two levels (like Zefirelli's Boheme scene at the Met) in the two basilicas at Assisi (choral opportunities as well) or Rebecca and Bill from opposite upper wings debating the best bungee sites near Spoleto (we could get a voice-over for Rebecca)?
Posts: 2054 | Location: Suburban Philadelphia | Registered: 08 July 2002
Lights come up on couple poring over maps, guides, computer printouts covering living room floor. Tender, woeful duet, melodic line of which becomes leitmotif of musical (“We can’t have it all!” “He wants four days in Rome/She won’t cut out the lakes!”) In swoops BOB THE NAVIGATOR through the window, wearing patriotic leotard, cape and knee high boots. Dramatic tenor solo. (“You must do the Lakes, you must do the Lakes, just have faith in me and computer mapping!”) Bill Thayer crashes down door with walking stick. Baritone line joins in. (“But Rome!” “Ancient Rome!”). Gavin comes up through the floor. Bass line (“Le Marche, Le Marche, Le Marche and UM-bria”). I see a fight scene here, that’ll really get the audience going. BOB wins, of course. Guys in tights always do.
THEN, cut to Rome. Woeful melodic line comes out again when couple discovers luggage has been rerouted to Mozambique. Etc...
Make sure my costume has lots of cleavage showing. It’s the violence and sex that sells.
Pauline, This thread has legs! Can you pull all the ST musical posts and start a thread of it's own? We can write this whole musical right here and now!
I think we should end the musical with all the SlowTrav people converging on the piazza of the restored Migianella dei Marchesi ST commune. A huge song and dance number with David as the newly elected mayor and all the SlowTrav moderators as city council members.
And Pauline has tables everywhere spread with bright yellow table cloths upon which Diva is piling platters of food while Dean pours wine into a huge fountain.
Oh, by the way, make sure you dub in a voice for my scene with Decobabe. I wouldn't want my grade school music teacher to roll over in her grave.
Deborah Horn
In a previous life I was an Umbrian sunflower farmer. I'd like to do a past life regression and stay there. ----------------------------------- Marketing Solutions for Health Care
Posts: 4785 | Location: St. Louis, MO | Registered: 04 September 2001
But don't forget you need to include a shot of Ponte Sant Angelo and the Morocon's selling their knock-off Prada and LV bags. "Buuuuutt, MMAAAAAAMMM I give you for only 50 eeuuuurroooooo's"
And you definitely need a shot of the dancing mickey and minny mouse's.
For the shot everyone should start without any sunglasses. Throughout the shot everyone takes one after another from the sunglass seller and by the end everyone is dancing in their knock-off eyewear.
Tony Polzer Tour Operator 3 Millennia Tours www.threemillennia.com tony@threemillennia.com
Posts: 1209 | Location: Santa Marinella (Rome), Italy; Zagreb, Croatia | Registered: 12 February 2003
quote:Originally posted by Tony da Roma: For the shot everyone should start without any sunglasses. Throughout the shot everyone takes one after another from the sunglass seller and by the end everyone is dancing in their knock-off eyewear.Tony Polzer
Ohh, Tony, I like that one! How about it starts raining and everyone grabs an umbrella from the vendor and opens it to reveal the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
Deborah Horn
In a previous life I was an Umbrian sunflower farmer. I'd like to do a past life regression and stay there. ----------------------------------- Marketing Solutions for Health Care
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Posts: 4785 | Location: St. Louis, MO | Registered: 04 September 2001
But the change has to be sudden. Sunny clear sky then it suddenly gets dark and before the first drop lands, miraculously all of the lazer pointer, flour balloon face, and misc. toy sellers instantaneously now all have umbrellas. Camera pans up into the "Sistine Chapel" umbrella and as it pans back away the scene has changed to the Sistine Chapel.
Tony Polzer Tour Operator 3 Millennia Tours www.threemillennia.com tony@threemillennia.com
Posts: 1209 | Location: Santa Marinella (Rome), Italy; Zagreb, Croatia | Registered: 12 February 2003
Hilarious scenes at the Siena palio involving fainting in the middle of the crowd in the center of Il Campo and stepping in horse droppings. Pan to Cristina cheering from the seated area. Pan to Dario with a group of middle aged female Americans clutching Diet Cokes.
I will appear in the background of many scenes wearing my Tilley hat and taking photos of parking signs and shop signs. With a shoulder bag full of guidebooks.
Pauline staring in an entire Tilley hat dance routine. Think Radio City Rockets. Birkenstocks with socks, pants with zip off legs, Rick Steves blue shirts, and Tilley hats!
Great idea Bill. I would gladly volunteer the machine at Casa Piazzetta, but the entire musical would be taken up in the time it takes that machine to do a load!
Deborah Horn
In a previous life I was an Umbrian sunflower farmer. I'd like to do a past life regression and stay there. ----------------------------------- Marketing Solutions for Health Care
Posts: 4785 | Location: St. Louis, MO | Registered: 04 September 2001
quote:THEN, cut to Rome. Woeful melodic line comes out again when couple discovers luggage has been rerouted to Mozambique. Etc...
But they have serious problems understanding the luggage and customs staff. They desperately need a translator and, providentially, Paolo is there to straighten things out...
Posts: 5705 | Location: Toronto | Registered: 26 May 2002
Gosh, yes, where are all of our Italians in this show, or don't they have the show-biz union cards you need? Or would they rather be left out of this garish affair? THere will be no singing on the bus, folks, or Robert Sta Monica will turn you in.
Posts: 2054 | Location: Suburban Philadelphia | Registered: 08 July 2002
quote: THere will be no singing on the bus, folks, or Robert Sta Monica will turn you in.
Ooh, Ooh, Can we do a take-off on Judy Garland's trolley song? Pretty please?
"Ding, ding, ding goes the 60"
Deborah Horn
In a previous life I was an Umbrian sunflower farmer. I'd like to do a past life regression and stay there. ----------------------------------- Marketing Solutions for Health Care
Posts: 4785 | Location: St. Louis, MO | Registered: 04 September 2001
Could we request a cameo appearance?....you could stop by our house on the way from Orvieto to Assisi and we could sing a sad song about the trials of buying ahouse in Italy!
Posts: 4755 | Location: Umbria | Registered: 29 June 2001
Rar could do a angst filled solo lamenting bus service between small Tuscan towns. ("It says on the sign that the bus should be running/Why, to understand holiday weekend schedules on the off-season, must one be so cunning!")
Let's start writing some group lyrics! I am going to work on some for Lake Trasimeno!
I may be sitting here in Birkenstocks with socks - but Deborah, I never wear them in Italy!! I am dorky right down to my ankles - and the next trip I plan to be wearing those ultra-chic shoes that R.G. recommended (as soon as I get to a Nordstrom).
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