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Strike The Musical
About a boy; Christian, whose life is going downhill in the quietest of towns birdsville, until one day he finds a strike. A strike is an object of magical and mysterious characteristics of which it beholds. It can cause evil or good however the side effect is that it loses 1 of three crystals changed from good to evil within a short space of time. The crystal (1) when destroyed takes away a crystal on the captains heart keeping his artificial heart protected. Each time a crystal fades away he can see what wishes have been placed for only evil. Christian doesn’t realize what the strike can do so he wishes for his sister to disappear to some unknown universe. This universe is called Island Strike of which lives Capt. Strike and his daft sidekick Merriweather. Christian wishes himself to go and find his sister and scarlet whom, whilst in Island Strike falls in love with Dante. The mother (Wendy) and father (Jerry) run a dry cleaners and are quiet as a business and it doesn’t help if they are constantly disagreeing with each other, and they have their favourite child of course making family life an unhappy one. As well as a strange but comical news reporter giving an insight of the reality behind the text who hires Christian’s best friend for life Martin then later resulting in Jeremiah going bananas through stress of the job. This article will be updated shortly.

Character Bios
Christian - A shy, but later mishchevious character his confidence grows throughout the show aswell as his smooth voice, determined alot of gesture is used to play the main character. Captain Strike - Captain, somewhat piratey but has a sadistic side to him just like famous cockney character fagin. Captain Strike with a constant coiling and un-coiling of his body is a common panto baddie. Merriweather - The sidekick of Captain strike always at his side, as well as being a big fan of Elton John Merriweather is somewhat un-intelligent to certain instructions set by captain. Dante - The leader of the gang, residents on island strike, dante is the eldest out of them all but he is a gentleman to anyone who he firsts meet hitiing it off well with the other characters. Jerry - The father of christian and his sister scarlet is a stubborn husband to his wife and family causing arguements but with his old school parenting techniques some things are bound to be disagreed with. Martin - The cockney fella who is best friends with christian gets hired by the news reporter forever and eternity, each time he hears about christians sister he always has something to say, Mr awkward. Scarlet - The cheeky lass is a big flirt with the good looking guys but everyone else can keep on waiting, a typical attitude, the teenager thinks about herself... all the time News Reporter - In her desperate hunt for a man, she reports the news to the town with a low tv budget which stresses her out but finally hiring an employ; Martin, she turns physcho on him when she realizes that she would be out of her job without him. Wendy - The mother of the children, married to Jerry, a nervous disposition when it comes to confrontation the sweet woman is a caring mother to Scarlet but mainly Christian There is also supporting cast roles, a northern customer, a miserable old woman and Stacey Scarlets best friend.

Musical Numbers
1# Holding Out For A Hero – News Reporter 2# Scream - Christian 3# Im Still Standing - Merriweather 4# Hard to handle (Metallica) – Wendy, Jerry 5# Jump for my love - Dante, Residents, Scarlet 6# I Predict a Riot - Captain Strike, Merriweather 7# Time Warp (ACT ONE FINALE)

8# One Way or Another - News Reporter 9# Grease Lightning - Company 10# Crocodile Rock - Company 11# Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Dante, Scarlet 12# Sweet Home Alabama - Captain Strike 13# Jailhouse Rock - Company 14# They Dont Care About Us - Company 15# How long must this go on - Captain Strike 16# Time Warp (Reprise) FINALE - Company 18# Jump for my love (reprise) - Bowing Music/ Final Company song