the site, http://www.box-six.com/ sells some show themes. it's an option you could do if you don't want to think of one. those creators are 2 guys who instruct pacifica( open gold at wgi champs 08), fountain valley(open 3rd place at wgi champs 08, and some other lines that are pretty good. i've seen shows they've done and they're good.

I have an idea how about:

http://www.jksmusic.com/percussion/index.php?musicID=107

I know of the guys who write for Box 6 and JKS, but if you go all the way back to the first post in the thread...



And besides... Anyone can pick a prefab show out of a catalog. Where's the fun in that? I'm looking for "outside the catalog" suggestions -- what source material would you write a show around?

Dream Theater lends itself very well to the indoor activity. I could see a dark vampire type theme based on some their stuff. (beyond this life is what I have personal experience with)

Space exploration show based on Holst's The Planets

Medieval Wedding Celebration based on Bachanalle

I'm actually surprised to see someone who listens to Dresden Dolls here.

They're good .

And while this song would be good for indoor, it would be too repetitive and could provide maybe a minutes worth of material. Regarding rights, I think all you'd need to do is ask them as I don't think they're on any major label and even have a play featuring their music for a theater group up in the Boston area (where they're from). Its definitely different stuff, but the whole dark cabaret thing could work, but its also high school, so a different theme would have to be thought of to fit the music.

I say, for a stand still, just steal Crown's show idea and use a bunch of classical music finales.


Candide (Bernstein)
Toccata & Fugue in D minor (Bach)
Barber of Seville (Rossini)
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
Mid Summer Night’s Dream #9 (Mendelssohn)
Clair de Lune (Debussy)
One Hand, One Heart (Bernstein)
Somewhere (Bernstein)
Hungarian Rhapsody (Liszt)
Festive Overture (Shostakovich)
1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky)
Appalachian Spring (Copland)
Hallelujah Chorus (Handel)

A lot of that stuff is going to come cheap, I believe, and there are more you can use. Not sure how you feel about almost blatantly ripping off the show premise from a corps, but it can be used really easily for a beginning group, as most people will have a good understanding of how stuff sounds already (they're all fairly popular pieces), can be had for cheap (I believe) and can fill up a full 5-7 minutes easy. As for the visual aspect, you could do a little more story line than Crown did ( 2008 program explained.

A lot of that is public domain at this point.

Choral Public Domain Library
Public Domain Music

Those are two good sites with a lot of information about what pieces can be used for free. The first one has actual music, the second has lists of pieces that are free to use, but I can't find any actual files.

I'd defintely have to agree that Shostkovich would make for some pretty intense music. Off the top of my head I can't think of a theme to go with it but I still think it'd be prety cool.

Theme... how bout... A Defiant Heart? haha

I always wanted to do a shostakovich indoor show

Impossible.

Kristy Spears aged out in 97, rendering Shostakovich and Wagner themes nearly useless for lack of GE due to her unexplainable hotness in a uniform.

Can you elaborate on this? I'm slightly interested now haha.