GENRES
Fiction, Comedy, Musical, Uplifting, Modern-day
LOGLINE
As adults, we’ve failed whimsy. As adults, we can foster it back to life.
Elevator Pitch
Whimsical the Musical is a theatre production fit for both Broadway and the screen, about a drama teacher’s realization that we as adults have lost all our whimsy, and it’s costing the next generation theirs.
So she does the only reasonable next thing: she scraps the school’s current production and teaches her students the power of imagination, belief, and whimsy. It’s a tear-jerker, a call to action, and a really cute, uplifting story that ties realism into an important message: we can’t live a good life without whimsy. It has a vibe somewhat similar to The Sound of Music, but is fully original and not based on any prior stories.
Redemption Arc
The redemption is felt for the whole next generation, but is largely represented and mirrored in the character, Little Jenny, who didn’t see much of a future for herself until Mrs. Bimble gave her the ability to dream. When Little Jenny gets her whimsy back, Mrs. Bimble feels as though she’s done justice not only for the kids, but also for her younger self.
Characters
Mrs. Bimble: A bright-eyed drama teacher who clearly has many years of experience at her job. She’s excitable, but focused and loves singing, improv, theatre, and of course kids! She has warm blue eyes and short, honey hair in bouncy, medium curls.
Little Jenny: Mrs. Bimble’s mirrored younger self. They have very little in common, appearance-wise, and Jenny is a quieter kid. An imaginative dreamer who’s lost hope in any of them coming true, even at the young age of eight. She has an alcoholic father, a mother who tries her best, and a little four-year-old brother.
Timmy: a slender boy of nine-years-old, with brown hair and hazel eyes who loves trucks and the color green. He is a kind kid, but sometimes discouraged easily, and struggles to remember his lines in rehearsals.
Bobby: a stout, brunette ten-year-old with chocolate brown eyes who loves dragons and the color blue, and really wants cool things to exist, but has big doubts about their possibility because of his parents’ bad financial situation.
Ensemble: There are other theatre kids, but the ones above are the only who have been named and given lines yet. The theatre group itself will be at least 8 kids in count, between 8-11 years old.
Locations
This production will require both a school setting and a theatre for final rehearsals and performance of final number.
The Why
I often sing to myself in the car and, as I was driving home from the theatre one day (lol), I came up with a little musical number about how, as adults, we somewhere along the way lost the whimsy that we once held so tightly to and fought for against all odds that had tried to rip it from our grasp as kids. Where along the way did we lose that whimsy? We let it out of our sight just a few times, or for just a few years and suddenly now we’re jaded adults who can’t believe in the impossible or miracles, or big dreams.
I like to think I’m a dreamer, but I’m a jaded dreamer for sure. I knew instantly that I had to make a musical out of the song I had come up with. My problem was, that by the time I had gotten home, I remembered very little of it (#memoryloss) since I couldn’t write it down while driving (I really should start recording my driving song sessions?! Hindsight is 20/20).
Nonetheless, I did my best to recreate some lyrics with the vibe, and was able to remember the chorus verse, so I worked with that. And, thus, what we know of Whimsical the Musical was born 🙂
I definitely believe that this has huge Broadway potential and could sell out theatres in feature-film format.
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