Our review of "We Will Rock You"

Imagine if you will the following all mixed together: Queen+The Rocky Horror Picture Show+Star Wars+Matrix. Confused? Yeah, so were we. The story took place in the year 2347 (or something like that) in a land far far away on planet Maa (formerly known as Earth). In this world, something has gone terribly wrong! Rock has died. Music is only produced in a cookie cutter boy band style with sole purpose of making moolah. A rebel known as Galileo Figaro hears music and lyrics from classic rock songs in his head but doesn't know what any of it means because no single person produces music anymore. There are also no instruments left in the world, they have all been destroyed by the Killer Queen (who seems to be the equivalent to Frank N. Furter from Rocky Horror)and a guy that looks like Agent Smith from The Matrix. Galileo meets a new friend, his new bad ass chick and names her Scaramouch. They are arrested for being rebels who do not want to be a part of the Gagas (the cookie cutter boy band clone people that populate the rest of the world). They escape and find the Bohemians, hippies living in a Tube tunnel they call the Heartbreak Hotel. There, they meet Britney Spears, a guy who looks like a cross between Jackie Chan and Don Cheadle. Britney Spears tells Galileo that he is THE ONE aka the dreamer and can save the Bohemians from persecution and the Gagas and bring rock n' roll back to its former glory. The music Galileo has been hearing in his head are the words from the holy scripture known as Bohemian Rhapsody. Long story short, they bring back rock. Woohoo!

Bizarre plot right? Yeah it was really hard to follow and the musical numbers popped up out of nowhere, sometimes in places where they didn't really fit. For the most part we were okay with that because the music and arrangements were awesome. The singing was great, the acting... not so much. The set consisted of large truss columns along the wings and a platform in the shape of a T that came out of the stage and revolved around. Upstage, there were large screens where they projected a mixture of images reminiscent of 1985 such as neon zebra skin print. When the Gagas were present, the screens were full of SIM-like characters doing the same dance as the Gagas. Most of the choreography looked like something Rachael could create at Grits n' Gravy night at I-Bar (super cheesy interpretive dancing). The content was a little raunchy by American standards, so this show probably isn't for children (in Katie's opinion). The lighting for the most part was okay, a lot of flash n' trash for the musical numbers and simple enough for moments with dialogue. When the Agent Smith guy came in to arrest people, a green laser cage covered the captured which created a cool effect. After the bows, and the stage went dark, we realized we had not yet heard the mother of all rock songs, the sacred song itself, Bohemian Rhapsody. A screen projection popped up asking if we wanted to hear Bohemian Rhapsody. Well of course! So it answered, "Oh, alright then..." And the actors came back on stage to perform. This was probably the best part of the show. The lighting, choreography and arrangement was great. Plus it was pretty cool to sit in a whole house of people banging their heads to this "holy piece of scripture." All in all, music: two thumbs up (three, if ya got 'em!) but the plot was super-cheesy and the rest of the show was just whatev. Not bad for a show we basically walked into off of the street.

More pictures later! XOXO K&R