Queerside Story
The Improvised Musical Format

Director/ Host/ Musician (1min) 

Present two teams of two and a brief description of the format. 

 

Suggestion 1 (1min) 

The Musician or Director will ask the audience for suggestions for Team A, then Team B

1) What is a non-geographical location? (cafe, library) 

2) What is a saying? (It's raining cats and dogs)

3) What is a law or code to live by in the world? (Don't believe everything you read, learning is for life) 

 

Scene 1 Intro Song for Team A (3min) 

Team A starts a scene inspired by the audience’s suggestion 

Establishes the relationship between the two characters, their names, and 1 thing about them, their job or what they doing in the scene, 

The director can assist the players by cueing them to name their relationship, their names and what they are doing. Once established the Musician will help the players find a song, by saying let's do a song about (blank). 1-3 chords play, players can begin song when comfortable. Pause when songs ends, for audience to applad. 

 

Team B is sitting on the side, and team A in centre stage. 

 

Scene 2 Intro song for Team B (3min) 

same as 1 but with Team B.

 

Suggestion 2 (1min) 

All players are up on the stage.

The Musician or Director will ask the audience to vote for who they want the lover from Team A to be. They will point to the person and the audience will cheer for the player they want to be the lover. 

 

Scene 3 The lovers meet cute (*less than 1 min or shorter) 

The two lovers bump into each other and make prolonged eye contact (at least 10 seconds, while the musician plays the love motif music). Once music stops both players leave the scene. 

 

Suggestions 3 (final audience input) (1min)

The teammates come on the stage. The Musician or Director will ask the audience to vote if the teammate is for or against the relationship. The musician or director will ask the audience to yell out what they want, either for or against. Whatever the director precisver the audience shouted louder. Or get the audience to cheer for and to cheer for against. 

 

Scene 4 The Duet Scene. (5 mins) 

Two teams on stage at the same time are tasking. 

Team A steps forward and slightly more to centre stage still maintaining their half of the stage. The lover will tell the teammate about how they met someone special, but don't know their name, the teammate will then react (showing they are for or against as voted by the audience) Then they back and continue tasking. then Team B does the same. 

 

* Director can say cut to Team B once the lover has told teammate they met someone, and the teammate has reacted. 

Then the lover then leaves the scene. (got sit in the wings) Two teammates stage on either side of the stage and have a duet. Musician plays music again 1-3 chords. 

Teammate A begins a verse about how they are for or against the relationships 

Then teammate B goes, they try to find a similar chorus or play with call and response with short lyrics.

*During the duet they will try match their chore moves. 

Musician can assist the players to find a chorus.

 

Scene 5 Asking a lover out (less than 2 mins) 

Short scene

The lovers meet again and the goal of the scene is for a lover to ask out the other on a date. Scene ends when the other lover said yes. Musician plays love motif again to the end the scene. 

 

Scene 6 The Date Scene (open scene) (varies in length between 1-5 mins) 

The lovers on a date, the teammates will sit on the sit, and they come into the scene add to the romanace or to sabotage the date. The scene ends when the two lovers say together and they lived either "happy ever after or happily never after". Honouring the truth of the scene was their a connection or not. 

Director to help players find that moment. This scene is an open scene and can have cuts tos. There can also be short songs within the scene. This scene varies due to the narratives, the player experience, and so on. 

 

The final song will all player (3mins) 

Can be thought as medley 

 

All players up on stage, musician between accompaniment 1-3 chords. 

Summaries the worlds, and something about love, and how they are in love forever or just friends. Each players gets a verse, and all the player try to find a one chorus they sing inbetween the verses and at the end. Everyone pauces for audience to applad. 

 

Director thanks the players and everyone. The end. 

 

Other notes to the format: 

Types of relationships between teammates: roomates, siblings, co-workers, classmates, friends, partners in an open relationship, 

 

Teammates that for relationship motives: wanting their teammate to experience love, passionate about love

 

Teammates that are against: Because they havn’t confessed their love to teammate yet, fear of losing their teammate to a relationship, fear of change, 

 

Teammates and lovers can fall in with each other. 

 

The directors role and direction is dependent on how strong and familiar the players are with the format. Directors and provide more or less directors. 

 

Musician: Scene 3 and 5 Love motif is arpeggiating I and iv. 

 

Holding positions after songs have ended and pause before starting new scene. 

Longer notes at the end of songs for ending.

Dance and be incorporated in any scenes where their songs.