The Dune Guy Rock Opera (Dune Guy!)
The following was taken from the notebooks of Dune Guy. In 1992 he teamed up with Andrew Lloyd Webber to make a musical about a small county in the nineteenth century, fighting for the equality of it's people. The musical was never finished.
Opening Scene. Port City (or Prague, Germany)
THE WORKING CLASS:
We sing of the freedom,
We sing of the joy!
We sing of the happiness
Of every girl and boy!
So live for the moment,
And pull down your pants!
Point a your nose way up high,
And thumb it at Government Grants!
Scene closes. One little boy walks off from the main group.
He is holding a moth-eaten stuffed animal (Beaver or Muskrat?) and
sucking his thumb. He removed a saliva-covered thumb from his
mouth to sing in a high-pitched girlish voice. Music at this point
is much more sedate and should be in D minor
Oh, I've lived in this here city
Since I was a wee tike.
I've been called a white boy
but never called a kike.
My parents both have lepracy
My sister's poor as dirt.
The only one who loves me
Is my dear old aunt Girt.
Music Picks up pace
Happiness
A thing of the past
Happiness
A thing of the past
The world is a'changin'
In't it sweet?
So lick up the chocolate,
And get on your feet.
At this point, the WORKING CLASS joins in for one big chorus.
Stick this one to the Kaiser!
Stick this one to Prez!
Stick this one to the fatso
With the big red fez!
Unification!
Satan's Tophat
Unification!
Not worth a bowl of spit!
When it's all said and done,
A poor man's life is... bad!
Scene closes. The prince of the country (or Prague) is singing to himself. He has a bowl-shaped haircut and is dressed in fancy clothes.
PRINCE:
And I saw her standing there,
All dressed in tweed of gray
It was then that I asked how
She'd come on her merry way.
While brushing her hair
with a whale bone brush
She looked to the sky
And started to blush.
"All the people in Europe
And on the shores of Tripoli
could never keep me from
what is my reason to be.
No need for fighting
No need for clicks,
I'm one with the world
In god's big ol' bag of tricks."
And I ask of her.
Where is my kingdom now?
The prince looks down, and the lighting fades quickly as the music continues for four more solemn measures.
Final scene. The prince has been captured by the Working class and he sings himself one last song as he awaits execution.
And I say...
Don't leave me here.
Especially when I'm dead (stretch word)
Ain't you heard a word I said?
Scene ends, then...
Dune Guy's notebook became a jumble of indecipherable scribbles at this point. But the music was also found. If this will ever be finished, the world may just have to wait and see. It may be another Phantom of the Opera, another Les Miserables, another Cats, another Sound of Music. Who knows?