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Star-Crossed began it's life as a serious
attempt at a musical that looked forward into
the 21st Century. The 'serious' part did not
last long and it soon became an affectionate
take on all those space sagas that have plagued
us during the later years of the 20th century.
The action is set in the future in a galaxy
not far away, and tells the story of Rocky
and Ricky, friends since childhood and six
months out of Star School. Rocky is the captain
of the Starship Alpha Zee and Ricky is his
junior Navigation Officer. The show follows
the events of their journey from Starport
2120 towards Star City.
Princess Alena stows away disguised as one
of six L-Grade Androids and is assigned as
"L-C" to be Ricky's personal assistant. Thinking
that his android cannot understand a human's
finer feelings he confesses to L-C that he
fell desperately in love at first sight with
Princess Alena when he saw her a year ago.
Two other stowaways, Bill and Bob have been
sent by the evil General Garth to follow and
find the Princess. They are discovered, but
during questioning by Captain Rocky, General
Garth arrives on a shuttle with his personal
star troopers. He demands that the Princess
is found, and to speed up the search he will
use "mass interrogation by telepathy", a technique
he learnt on Telemos 3. He tells Rocky that
without certain 'background help' from the
General, Rocky would have failed all his Star
School exams. Not surprisingly, Rocky gives
his immediate support to the General. The
technique immediately reveals that the Princess
is posing as L-C, at which revelation Ricky
is mortified. She is led away to the ships
cells to await delivery to her Father.
Whilst there she comes to realise that she
has fallen in love with Ricky. He breaks-in
to the cells and she tells him that she is
to be married to Nodrog Shalf - an arranged
marriage to forge a new commercial dynasty,
but she doesn't like Nodrog and can't stand
the thought of marrying him. The Imperator's
shuttle arrives with his Imperial Highness
and Nodrog Shalf on board. General Garth is
commanded to bring the prisoner Princess to
the Imperator, but the cell is discovered
to be empty and the new arrivals are not pleased
at all with this news. The Princess Alena,
decides that she must confront her father,
steps forward as L-C, reveals her true identity
and says that she won't marry Nodrog under
any circumstances. Realising that he is making
a mistake, the Imperator sends Nodrog packing.
The question is - who should marry the Princess
now?
General Garth confesses that 23 years ago
he placed two orphaned babies from a disintegrating
planet into a foster home on Earth. One of
these was a high-born Prince, the other the
child of a common worker. Perhaps the Prince
might be a useful substitute, especially as
the General can produce him immediately! Rocky
is commanded to step forward and be named
as the Prince, but just as he is about to
confirm that he does indeed have the royal
birthmark on his leg, a massive technical
failure shuts down the ships computer. Consternation
now erupts as they realise they are all being
dragged down into a black hole. Ricky steps
forward and not only provides an ingenious
way of restoring power to get away from the
danger, but is revealed as the true Prince,
complete with birthmark.
Alena and Ricky are overjoyed to be engaged,
but Rocky is distraught at his change of circumstances
from Prince to pauper. The Imperator though
reminds him that the ships computer is not
working and that he will have to "… look to
the future …", take command and get them all
home safely, as befits a Captain of Starfleet
Command.
The musical is a fun two-act piece with easy-to-learn
music and lyrics. It has 4m, 1f, 9m/f principal
parts, plus as many androids, startroopers,
passengers and crew as are available, up to
a rough cast total limit of 30. |
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| Rocky Roberts
- Captain of the Starship Alpha-Zee |
| Ricky Retro
- Junior Navigation Officer on the Alpha-Zee
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| Princess Alena ("L-C")
- On the run from her father's agents disguised
as an android |
| General Garth
- Chief of Staff of the Intergalactic Force
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| Bill - Garth's
henchman |
| Bob - Garth's
other henchman |
| Number One
- second in command of the Alpha-Zee |
| Crewgirl -
female member of the starship crew |
| Imperator Zaphon
- Alena's father |
| Nodrog Shalf
- Heir to the throne of Zardis. |
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| Supporting Cast |
| Voice of the Starship Computer |
| Android Delivery Operative |
| Major Domo |
| Two Presenters |
| Androids, Startroopers, Starport passengers
and staff |
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Schools who wish
to order using Official Orders and
Invoicing may do so by adding those
items required to the Shopping Basket
as normal. Please make sure you have
an Official Order Number and the school
e-mail address BEFORE you get to the
Checkout.
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Royalties
The royalty fees below are payable for
each performance
given to an audience, where the seating
capacity of the venue does not exceed
200. Obtain a quotation by either completing
the Application at the Credit Card payment
Checkout, or mail-in our printed Application
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Schools
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Amateur Groups :
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£ 40.00 |
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