Sugestões para 2010: We Will Rock You no Dominion Theatre em Londres

Este post inclui dois vídeos: o trailer e um excerto (Radio Ga Ga) do musical londrino We Will Rock You.

Ao escrever o último post veio-me à memória um séjour em Londres em 2005, durante o qual fui ver o musical concebido por Ben Elton (actor, dramaturgo, escritor), com base na obra musical dos Queen e com a colaboração de Brian May e Roger Taylor.

Apesar da crítica ter sido impiedosa, como tão frequentemente acontece quando se trata de produções culturais de cariz não erudito, a preferência de um público verdadeiramente global, que tornou este evento um indiscutível  sucesso de bilheteira desde a sua estreia em 2002, não deixa margem para dúvidas no que concerne à sua qualidade.

(Foto: http://www.ultimatequeen.co.uk/Misc/dominion.jpg)

Os bilhetes podem ser adquiridos através da Ticketmaster, e julgo que em Portugal também através da Ticketline e custam cerca de 70 euros...mas vale bem a pena. É de facto um espectáculo electrizante, com artistas muito talentosos, e um enredo que dramatiza a distopia de uma sociedade panóptica em que o rock foi banido e só se ouve um tipo de música (ga-ga)...

Aqui fica a descrição do enredo, disponível no website do musical em
http://www.wewillrockyou.co.uk/:

"The time is the future, in a place that was once called Earth. Globalisation is complete! Everywhere, the kids watch the same movies, wear the same fashions and think the same thoughts. It’s a safe, happy, Ga Ga world. Unless you’re a rebel. Unless you want to Rock. On Planet Mall all the musical instruments are banned. The Company Computers generate tunes and everybody downloads them. It is an age of Boy Bands and of Girl Bands. Of Boy and Girl Bands. Of Girl Bands with a couple of boys in them that look like girls anyway. Nothing is left to chance, hits are scheduled years in advance.

Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality. But Resistance is growing. Underneath the gleaming cities, down in the lower depths live the Bohemians. Rebels who believe that there was once a Golden Age when the kids formed their own bands and write their own songs. They call that time, The Rhapsody.

Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see. Legend persists that somewhere on Planet Mall instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock. The Bohemians need a hero to find this axe and draw it from stone. Is the one who calls himself Galileo that man?

He’s just a poor boy. From a poor family. But the Ga Ga Cops are also looking for Galileo and if they get him first they will surely drag him before the Killer Queen and consign him to Oblivion across the Seven Seas of Rhye. Who is Galileo? Where is the Hairy One’s lost axe? Where is the place of living rock?

Anyway the wind blows."


E aqui fica o trailer do musical, assim como a dramatização do padronizado mundo ga-ga...



We Will Rock You London Cast | Vídeos de Música do MySpace