Abarat the Musical!

[THE LADY OF MIDNIGHT]

Ok so this is kind of weird but I'll let you do what you want with it.

Goal:
If the Abarat were made into a musical....
I bet you'd have your favorite scene/song.
Well write down the lines/lyrics of what they are singing about.
It can be scray, funny, adventuristic (is that a word?)

Feel free to describe the context of the song/scene and what they are wearing, or what they are seeing either is () or " " to distinguish it from actual words/lyrics being said or you can just add it to the end or the beginning to help it make sense.


It can be a scene in one of the books... or if you are feeling really creative... a scene you'd hope or are expecting in a future Abarat book. Just make sure you make it clear what you are doing.

It can be about any character.

Rules:
1. Keep everything PG 13
2. Don't Plagerize
3. I'm not a grammar nazi but try to be coherent.
4. Have FUN!

Am I making sense at all??? I'm not sure exactly when I'll judge it but you'll have atleast a week
Let me know if ya'll want more time or anything.

[Abaratian]

Hold on, are we supposed to make up our own song, or can we use a real song? And are there any restrictions on song choice, aside from keeping everything PG13?

BTW - good to see a contest going again! We miss you loads!

[Deleted]

OHAI BB! Good to see you again! <3

I'm a little confused as to how we are supposed to present our entries, and what should be included...

Keep everything PG 13

AW! THERE GOES MY MUSICAL SEX SCENE OUT THE WINDOW! XD

[RedStockings]

Musical sex scene ... omg, do you think Andrew Lloyd Webber might consider taking that task on?

[worldfantasygirl]

lol, musical sex scene, I wonder how that would work..... (me and my dirty mind)

[THE LADY OF MIDNIGHT]

hahah yeah no musical sex scene for this hahah.
How to present? Well... I'm assuming if you were writing a scene from a musical you'd have lines like

Scene: Carrion's Obessesion with Candy is revealed to CrissCross, at Carrion's Bedroom Chamber on a normal dark, dreary evening on the Midnight Hour
Carrion: How Beautiful, How Beautiful her youthful face
(As he sings he raises his arms up at 'how' and back down with tragic vigor on 'beautiful'. He then preceeds to twirl on 'youthful')
CrissCross man: Sir, with all respect, she is just a human, a pathetic human.
(He enters in at 'Sir' through an open door that only shadow spills in from. He bows at 'respect' then stands up again and begins to snap at Carrion as he does a squat walk forward)


idk, i'm guessing yours will be more thought out than mind but does this give you a better idea? Let me know

[THE LADY OF MIDNIGHT]

ANYONE interested in this contest?

[carrionsprincess]

Okay so I hope I did this right and it makes sense to everyone. Please dont throw things at me, I tried to make Carrion not TOO emo, but I always loved this scene in the books because he really shows his anguish at her scorn of his love. The song is Ghost by Indigo Girls.

Scene: Carrion, walking through his haunted forest, reminiscing about Boa.

Carrion: After thinking about watching the moth fall with Shape and the Hereafter girl, turning his thoughts to Princess Boa, his voice low and scratchy, as he sings only to his memories.
There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer. Smiles wryly.
The last truce we ever came to from our adolescent war
And I start to feel the fever from the warm air through the screen
You come regular like seasons pauses shadowing my dreams

Carrion: Pauses again, contemplating the weight of such a statement, continuing to walk through the forest. His tone becomes factual, as though relating some fact he just read in a Hereafter book.
The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota
At a place where you can walk across with five steps down.

Carrion: Thinking of Boa again, his voice softens again. Suddenly the focus of the scene changes. Carrion still stands there in the shadows of the forest, but there’s now another Carrion on stage, younger, standing in a brightly lit garden admiring a beautiful young woman.
And I guess that’s how you started like a pinprick to my heart
But at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown

Young Carrion: Can be seen trying to approach the young woman who keeps turning away from him and eventually walks away, leaving him standing alone in the garden, his young face a mask of unbridled anguish.

Carrion:
And there's not enough room in this world for my pain
Signals cross and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain
Of all my demon spirits I need you the most

Young Carrion: Leaves, desperately chasing the way the young Boa went.

Carrion: I'm in—Carrions voice hitches and he cuts himself off from whatever he was about to sing. Pauses as the scene changes to another day in the bright garden, before continuing.

Young Carrion: Kneeling in the grass, his princess standing before him, he holds her hands between his like a knight bowing to his lady.

Carrion: Dark and dangerous like a secret it gets whispered in a hush

Young Carrion: Echoes Carrion’s melody, but so it seems he’s pleading with the princess. Don't tell a soul.

Carrion: His voice still continuing to narrate the scene.
And when I wake the things I dreamt about you last night make me blush

Young Carrion: Don't tell a soul! The princess smiles at him and even giggles somewhat at his attention. Then, at the sound of hoof beats, wrenches her hand out of his grasp and runs to meet the rider.

Carrion: Watching the scene
When you kiss me like a lover and you sting me like a viper
I go follow to the river play your memory like the piper

Young Carrion: Remains kneeling on the grass alone, watching as the rider, a young Finnegan Hob, leaps from his horse and sweeps the princess around, and she squeals happily and clings to him. Once again it’s clear the pain on Young Carrion’s face, as he watches them together yearningly.

Carrion:
And I feel it like a sickness how this love is killing me
But I would walk into the fingers of your fire willingly
Dance the edge of sanity I've never been this close
In—cuts himself off again.

During the musical interlude, the garden, the girl, her prince, and Young Carrion all disappear, and the focus is once more on Carrion, who is now angry upon seeing the ending of the scene, and stalks through the forest as such, his voice harsh, bitter, and mocking.


Carrion:
Unknowing captor you'll never know how much you
Pierce my spirit but I can't touch you. Getting louder, angrier.
Can you hear it? A cry to be free!!!
Oh I'm forever under lock and key Turns and slams his hand angrily against one of the trees. His fury spent, his voice drops to barely above a whisper.
As you pass through me

Carrion: Suddenly sees what looks like a glowing, ethereal version of the princess standing further on in the forest. Unbelieving his eyes, he slowly makes his way towards the glowing figure who just stands there and stares at him. His voice is slow, but clear.
Now I see your face before me; I would launch a thousand ships
To bring your heart back to my island, as the sand beneath me slips Starts to move forward faster, eventually breaking into a run.
As I burn up in your presence, and I know now how it feels
To be weakened like Achilles almost reaches her with you always at my heels

Carrion: Makes a desperate dive for her but she vanishes. He’s left on his knees, singing bitterly, mocking himself in the empty air.
My bitter pill to swallow is the silence that I keep
It poisons me I can't swim free the river is too deep
Though I'm baptized by your touch I am no worse at most

Carrion: Stands, shaking his head as despaired realizations sink in. His voice is soft and shaky, as though he’s afraid to admit what he’s been holding back the entire scene.
In…love with your ghost
In love with your ghost
In love with your ghost

Carrion: Shakes his head, trying to clear it, pushing his emotions back down to where he hides them and adopting his straight backed posture and cold mask once more. When he sings the last line, his voice is low and harsh, more spoken than sung as he stares once more into the Night air.
You are shadowing my dreams

Carrion: Then turns and makes his way towards the back of the forest.

Scene fades out.



LENGTH AGAIN!!!! So sorry about that ^^;

[THE LADY OF MIDNIGHT]

Yay! Thanks for entering girl!
You are awesome!!!
Who else wants to give it a go?

- The Lady of Midnight

[requiax]

Beautiful song!

[requiax]

Here's my entry. lol it sucks. and LAWL at Finnegan getting punched. I'm lame for doing the same scene as Carrionprincess--yours is awesome. Because of this lameness of myself, I might try and make another one.......

Also, I didn't do a lot of describing how the characters were singing or moving around. I realized that if I put in a lot of other words, the rhymes get lost. I promise it's much more detailed in my head. Maybe try and imagine it while you're reading

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[The winding staircase, CANDY stands above CARRION, pausing in her flight to listen to him speak.]

CARRION: I just thought you could save me.

CANDY: What do you mean?

CARRION: It's been so hard...

[He approaches her with his hand outstretched, then the set goes dark. The scene changes to a garden with CARRION, FINNEGAN, AND BOA.]

CARRION: [spoken] What is HE doing here?

Chorus and FINNEGAN: [murmuring] What is HE doing here?

CARRION: [singing] What is HE doing here?
I thought this day was for you and me?
Just the way it ought to be.
I have half a mind to give him a good whack.

BOA: [giggles] Play nicely, Christopher, I'll be right back! [leaves the stage]

CARRION: [calls after her] What is he doing here!
[turns to FINNEGAN] What are you doing here?

FINNEGAN: I don't appreciate the sneer.

CARRION: I said what are you doing here?

FINNEGAN: Repeating yourself won't make me disappear!
I'm in love, can't you see?
The Abarat will be at peace,
Just the way it ought to be!

CARRION: Was that a stab at me, your highness?
You really believe she'd prefer your boneless
Cowardice? [whispered]

[The music falls to a hush, then picks back up again]

FINNEGAN: You're one to speak!
Believing the two of you fit like a glove,
You've a face only a mother could love!

CARRION: Ginger!

FINNEGAN: Baldy! AVAST YE, CARRION!

CARRION: You think you're such a prince, but you're really a barbarian! [Punches FINNEGAN in the face]

[small fight scene]

BOA: [enters in a wedding gown] Boys, boys! There's no need for that!
When push comes to shove, don't trade tit for tat!
Besides, soon we will be wed!

FINNEGAN: And sharing a bed. [BOA winks and CANDY makes a retching noise from backstage]

CARRION: Wed? DEAD!

[The set whirls around him, switching to the Nonce and the wedding chapel.]

CARRION: [crooning] Don't you know I'm a great wizard, lizard? [DRAGON hums]
I need a favor, danger.
She left me here beleaguered,
And now I want to bleed 'er
Show them pain they've never known!

BOA: This day is perfect! The flowers,

FINNEGAN: And you,

BOA: the showers,

FINNEGAN: and you,

BOA: The best place in all of the hours!

FINNEGAN: With-

BOA: [pauses] I love you, too.

BOA and FINNEGAN: The flowers, the showers, the best place in all of the hours!
We'll have an Abarat in peace.
The most wonderful world to ever see,
A safe haven for light,
Far away from evil and fright,
Just the way it ought to be.

[Repeating the last four lines]

CARRION: [with the DRAGON slithering through the aisles.] Kill them, spill them!
Hurt them and pervert them!
Alight them, night them!
Terrorize and fright them!

[Repeating the last four lines]

[The music picks up speed and the characters sing faster, building up the crescendo. And just as the dragon rears to attack..]

EVERYONE: FRIGHT!

[The set goes black, and again CARRION and CANDY are on the staircase. CANDY's face is a mask of horror, and CARRION's, of shock.]

CARRION: Thoughts you never could have conceived of...

CANDY: Stay...Stay away from me! [Runs up the stairs and off the stage.]

CARRION: There's no where to run, girl. I won't let you leave too. [Follows her off stage.]

END SCENE.

And then Malingo makes a glyph and saves Candy. Ze End.

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Yeah. I was kinda inspired by A Very Potter Musical. They had pretty simply worded songs, so I was like, I could do that. And they mixed together different parts of the books at once, so I figure, if a musical would be written, it would have to explain the past in bits like this.

[requiax]

Not quite a musical, but a screenplay. Just saw it on fanfiction. Another staircase scene XP

www.fanfiction.net/s/6653990/1/Mespers_House

I also wanted to ask, how do yall use bold!? I'm assuming there's some fancy keyboard thing involved.

[carrionsprincess]

I am in awe. Thats FANTASTIC. Like holy &^%$! I want to see that actually done out so badly! I love the fact that you wrote the lyrics yourself! And hey, dont change it! Its not lame to do the same scene if you can do it better

And as for making text bold.... God I hate coding. Its so irritating. Put everything you want bolded in between and

[THE LADY OF MIDNIGHT]

YAY another entry!!!! You guys rock!!!

[requiax]

whoaaaaaaaaaaa

thank you so much! And I totally wish there was a musical out there hahaha