The “Wonderland Rock Opera” play manipulates the nonsensical genre from the Lewis Carroll stories “Alice and Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” to address real social tragedies affecting society. The musical brings to light the troubles and tribulations of pill abuse, be it pain medication, mood altering supplements, toxic herbal remedies made with contaminated processing water overseas or any pharmaceuticals, which produce negative physical and emotional side effects, damaging or ending relationships with family and, or friends. In the play, Alice is the victim who loses some of her intellect, spirit and soul as a side effect of the drugs and, or toxins. Romeo represents a friend or family member who loses his love. The dream occurs in Romeo’s head and is applied to remember his lost love and warn others of possible perils.
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New Songs posted on reverbnation ONLY
Bill the Lizard * NEW
Alice song * NEW
Just think you get lost in the cloud………….waste of time posting in the cloud
Type of Play
The play is a musical driven by the songs performed by each different character. When dialogue is applied, it is brief, rhythmic and in rhyme, similar or akin to the streamlined Shakespearean format. This musical is suitable for Broadway production, off Broadway or a street performance. Grand costumes and sets can be replaced with minimal character references, design and production.
The Set
The Broadway set utilizes the classical reference of a conflict, demonstrated during the historical period of WWII. This set grounds the theme as a tragedy. What was colorful, bright and magical in the Lewis Carroll story is now dark, burned and bombed. The stage consists of a two story adjoined tenement row house, partial bomb from the events of WWII. The second story represents the real world and the street is employed as the dream world of Wonderland. The top rooms of the tenement buildings have lost their roofs and are open to the night’s sky and susceptible to the will of the gods and nature. Alice sleeps in one room upstairs and Romeo attempts to sleep in his opposing tenement room, prospectively left and right. The Wonderland dream characters occupy the street level and are aware to the presence of Alice and Romeo.
The dream characters break the established fifth wall between the real world and the dream world by acknowledging the existence of both Alice and Romeo. Often the fairy tale creatures look up, toward Alice and Romeo, to verify that they continue to sleep, the dream remains alive, and Wonderland still lives. When the characters upstairs turn on a nightlight, the Wonderland spirits run and hide. Sleeping Romeo does not acknowledge the Wonderland characters because they only reside in his imagination. Alice on the other hand turns into a dream character when she leaves her room and enters the dream world, to interact with the magical creatures.
When Alice lies down to sleep, her primary associative dream characters (Cards 1-2, the Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the knight) sneak out of the door below her upstairs room. And, run back in the door when sleeping Alice wakes and turns on a light. Likewise, when the Romeo falls asleep his primary dream characters (Turtle Frog, White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, Blue Caterpillar, Egg Man and the Rat Mouse), slip through the door under his room to perform song and drunken dream dance on the Wonderland Street. The dream characters, slip, sneak and fall out onto the Wonderland Street to perform their act, dialog and sing the songs listed below.
Music
The music is simple and reminiscent of common street performers with their basic instruments. A primary band that wears costumes of soldiers can be implemented. Other instruments such as drums can be picked up and played by the Wonderland characters during the performance of songs. The guitar chords listed below have a capo at the 3rd fret, unless otherwise stated, altering the D major Ionian scale into a F scale. Again songs posted here
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Song List
Dog Song – Intro song written not yet recorded.
You – Posted
Madhatter – Finished posted.
Wonderland Main Theme Song Part 1 – Finished posted.
Rat Song – Finished posted.
Blue Rabbit Song – New demo Posted, first song was not good.
Cross the Evil Tree Spirit – Posted demo.
Blue Caterpillar – Finished posted.
Alice Song – Posted, the only song wrote after reading the book, most lines come from book.
Turtle Frog Song – Demo posted.
Bill the Lizard – Posted
Dream Song – Not recorded.
You’re the Queen – Not recorded.
The Queen Song – Rough demo posted, need female singer, have a new song that might be better.
Court of the Queen – Not recorded.
Cat Song – Not recorded.
Tweedledee and Tweedledum Song – Posted, need two singers alternating lines, maybe an edit.
Knight’s poem – A modification of Carrol’s, Hancocks eyes, not a song.
Egg man Song – Finished posted.
Sphinx Song – Posted need to change some weaker lines.
Romeo’s Ending Song “My love” – Posted.
Blue Butterfly – Need female singer.
Instruments
Acoustic guitars; stand up bass, tuba, marching band bass drum with shoulder straps, marching snare drum, marching band cymbals, tambourine, bells and a complete rock drum set are the required instruments. Sitar, and other instruments can be utilized for sound effects.
Characters
The Characters are real life people wearing worn out depression era clothes. Face paint and some character features mark them as based on Carroll’s traditional fanciful work. In a sense, this musical takes the magical gods of Carroll and brings them down to the dirty Wonderland Street as representations of earthly prophets. Traditionalist stuck in magical colorful pinwheel Wonderland will detest the play on these grounds alone but not all stories can be beautiful. It is also very debatable if Carroll’s work can is considered all that wonderful, since it is full of trickery and loaded with codes and hidden meanings. The end of “Through the Looking Glass”, is rather disturbing and describes a scene of violent animal cruelty. This book ends on this note. In nature, the most colorful creatures, flowers, mushrooms, snakes and spiders are always the most poisonous.
In Wonderland Rock Opera the characters will dance in a song, but it is not to project beauty, grace or strength and looks more or less like an attempt at removing sand from ones pants. The play is essentially song and dance, so the ability to not perform graceful dance or sing to perfect key and harmony are required.
Alice / Queen – Alice discovers she is the Queen of Wonderland. This is her transformation in the tragedy. She tends to walk into obliteration, even though warned by all the characters to stay away. In Carroll’s version Alice is tricked over and over to move onward into the next square. Here WonderlandRock Opera creatures attempt to warn Alice. When Alice enters Wonderland she is given a large pill the size of a car tire to paddle around. This is the labor of Sisyphus forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action forever. Now Alice is forced to push her pill and she excepts this without question.
Sleeping Romeo – No name given always trying to sleep so he can dream of his lost Alice.
Turtle Frog – Romeo in Wonderland, lost his shell and now looks like a frog. Wears a green body suit, no shell. Stands where a house use to be, before it was bombed. Some bricks and an old foundation are present. In place of the house there is a 50-gallon drum, which a fan is placed in at the bottom. Red and yellow paper flutters from to top to resemble a warming fire. The Turtle is always gathers objects to burn in his fire and occasionally throws a handful of confetti at the fan during dramatic moments.
Rabbit – Romeo in Wonderland, not white since he is so dirty. More or less a dirty rabbit but wears the most elaborate costume of all the creatures. Carries a shovel, which he has learned is much easier to make holes with.
Mad Hatter – Romeo in Wonderland, wears an anarchy shirt and sells tea from a street hot dog cart.
Blue Caterpillar – Romeo in Wonderland, sells cigarettes and newspapers off a news cart, which read nothing but war.
Rat Mouse – Steals objects and caries a sack, which he drops brown crumpled lunch bags out of to resemble mouse droppings. Everyone steps on these and gets pissed. Sometimes characters sweep these bags up, other times the droppings are picked up and thrown at the character Cross. When the rat is around, some stand on chairs, or shoo him away with a broom. He is a vector of disease and dreams.
Cross the Evil Tree Spirit – He is the gate, to the world or abode of dreams. Cross is a wooden tree, who holds out extended in each hand a represented fence, but comically looks rather more like two Christian cross. Everyone hates him, because he not only keeps real life people out, but also keeps the world of dreams in. If you wake up and do not remember your dream, this is the labor of Cross. On the other side of the tracks, Cross keep’s fantasy creatures trapped into a selective classical Carroll interpretation.
Chestire Cat – A large flat painted heart shaped circle for a head, carried by an actor who wears a black business suit and mask. One side of the face shows a happy face the other sad. The Cat is a persona of Alice in Wonderland but also represents the hot and cold polarized emotions of someone under the influence of pills or toxins. The face of the cat is turned to show a sad, or happy face in a scene, or in response to a joke. For example, when the turtle is called a frog since he has no shell, the caty, cat thinks this is funny and turns his giant smiling face slowly to the crowed. The Cat likes to sit on things and lay in strange positions with her back feet up, similar to a real life cat.
The Dog – Intro Song to set the mood, tone and tragedy. Dogs are the first to greet you, which is why he is used to open the show.
Card One and Two– Alice in Wonderland. Card one wears a shoulder strapped protest sign with the number one. Alice in Wonderland. These two figures represent in a larger sense, a two party political system and also the bond between pill users/drug addicts. Similar to Tweedledee and Tweedledum they are best of friends and often hold hands.
Blue Butterfly – Alice in Wonderland, her escape hatch from everything. She can always live in peace, since her sole is a beautiful butterfly. This never changes even when she becomes the mean Queen and comes under attack by her nemesis the all-powerful Egg Man.
Sphinx – Black face with a human body and head of a dog. Afraid of only one thing, balloons. Wonderland creatures torture the sphinx with balloons. The guard of the Dream world. Not a persona of Alice or Romeo and is based on traditional Greek myth and Pyramid Science. The Sphinx, similar to Cerberus keeps the dream spirits from leaving. When Cross is the Door, the Sphinx is the lock, making this musical kind’a into a special kind of key.
Tweedledee and Tweedledum – The Queen’s jesters. They represent a cities two primary newspapers, ones the Post and ones the Sun. These papers do not cover stories concerning the plight of the pill users, or warn people of toxin in supplements made from dirty water offshore. The papers only list generic unassociated crimes, leaving the root cause and human struggle unresolved.
Egg Man – The nemeses of the Queen, not Alice. He is the most powerful Wonderland creature of them all. Existential like the Rabbit he can leave the Dream but no harm can come to him. Since he is such a strong fairy tail creature, he likewise holds this authority in the play. Egg man would represent Zeus.
Knight – Performs a modification of the original Lewis Carroll poem called Haddocks’ Eyes. The audience is encouraged to boo him by the other Wonderland characters. Only Alice loves the knight, who she marries with the entire audience who is outraged and encouraged to boo the event prior to intermission.
Bill the Lizard – A character that expresses pills are bad, but some small grass use is ok.
All the characters are missing something. The cat is missing his body, so he is physically not whole. The Turtle his shell and home, the Rabbit missed the time to react, Madhatter lacks restraint or social discipline, Blue Caterpillar, his peaceful loving Alice, Rat not being tall and big enough to confront the issues, the knight misses the mark and Alice misses the entire meaning turning into the Queen.
DRAFT..Wonderland Rock Opera Play..DRAFT
11/17/12
By Billy Jones
Down the Rabbit Hole
Main Storyline
Action – Alice and Romeo turn off their night lights and lay down to sleep. The Dog sings his slow song to outline the over all meaning of the play.
Dog Intro Song – under construction
Action – Romeo awakes having problems sleeping and picks up a guitar and plays Alice a Love song called You.
Storyline – The songs “Intro” and “You” are slow and set the mode for faster songs to explode and excite the emotions of the crowd. Slow songs are required to make the fast ones seem even faster and ok songs needed to make the great songs really standout. It is understood that a great play requires happy moments to make the sad moments more potent. Comedy is a requirement of a tragedy and vise versa. The audience is pulled through a roller coaster of swinging emotions, attempting to invoke emotional instability. This forces an artificial psychosis and makes the audience experience polarized emotional feelings of extreme happiness and sadness, a tragedy par excellence.
You Song – Posted
Capo 5th fret
Dm C G
There’s a flower in the vase soft and red
There’s silk sheets to place on the bed
There’s a soft song now playing in your head
Now where to go start when there’s, no place to end
There’s a window on the ledge just past the moon
There’s a spider on the web, on the ceiling of your room
There’s a door that opens and baby leads to you
Now, where to start if I still love you
Am C G
What was warm is now cold and blue
What was warm is now cold, baby blue
Dm C G
There’s butterflies and wings from the wood
There’s a little train blowing out what it could
There’s a soft song now, ringing in your head
Now, where to start, when there’s no where to end
There’s rain that falls all through the night
There’s a phone that wont ring or flash its lights
There’s a door that opens and baby closes too
Now, where to start blue blue blue
Am C G
What was warm is now cold and blue
What was warm is now cold, baby blue
Dm C G
There’s Milk Thistle and a flower not to touch
There’s a little train, blowing out its love
There’s a sad song of seven lonely seas
There is a river of tears that pours from me
Action – Romeo turns off his night light and goes back to sleep. A bell sounds four times at, which point the Madhatter rips through the downstairs door, shocking the audience and begins to sing his song. The other Magical Wonderland creatures begin to sneak out of both downstairs doors and spill out onto the street below during the song. The Rabbit stays in its hole for now and makes no appearance yet.
Madhatter Song
A G A
They say I am crazy, they say I am a fool
They say I am wicked, they say I am rude
They say I come here, looking for you
D G A
No time for anything else to do
No time for anyone else but you
Low tea and a high tea after -noon
One to go and one to come soon
A G A
They say, I don’t sing, I only talk
They say, I don’t run and only walk
They say, I come here to set my clock
D G A
No time for any small talk
Low tea and a high tea with the frogs
One for me and one for the hair on the dog
A G A
They say I’m a joker they say I am crude
They say my cards read one and two
They say I come here to save you
D G A
No time for anything else to do
No time for anyone else but you
Low tea and a high tea London fog
One for the Queen who’s turned to salt
A G A
They say am crazy about you
They there’s nothing I can do
They say I write all the songs
D G A
No time for any small talk
Low tea and a high tea in Hyde park
One for the Queen and one for the dog
A G A
They say you’re gone and lost in the dark
They we can’t walk or ever(even) talk
They say I come here looking for you
D G A
No time for anything else to do
No time for anyone else soon
Low tea and a high tea with the Salt
One mate for the sole and one mate for the heart
Action – The Madhatter drops a top hat reveling his head, which is covered in tin foil. The top hat is to be picked up by the Rabbit later. The hat hides an important key. The stage again erupts in the main Wonderland song. The lights go on in Romeo’s room when he sings his lines, and turn back off before the next singer performs.
Wonderland Rock Opera Main Song Part one
D F#m G A
Well I I Know the Queen Cards 1-2
D G A
Well, I paint the flowers on the trees Knight
My Dear things aren’t what they seem Caterpillar
One pill makes you large and small like me Rat
D G A
Well Alice it’s time for tea Hatter
The Madhatter, the hare, the Frog, that’s me Frog
Sandman won’t let me sleep Romeo
I’ve been up all night thinking (of, up) dreams Romeo
A D D A
Oooooooo Come with me All
Oooooooo its time for tea All
A D D A
Well Alice, come with me Hatter
A G D
There’s a blue Caterpillar and a real wooden tree Hatter
That smoke is smoke that you just don’t see Frog
I search for butterflies out in the wheat Knight
My looking glass sees the things man don’t see Frog
A D D A
Well Alice Don’t question me Frog
A G D
Those pills are things that you don’t need All
I have gone down to the place people don’t go Romeo
I have seen the tricks to every sideshow Romeo
A D D A
Well Alice Don’t question me Frog
A G D
We take small steps before we leap Frog
I lay down and still don’t sleep Romeo
Action – The Rat sneaks into Alice’s upstairs bedroom singing his song and swaying left to right. The tempo slows and the lights get dark on the stage. Alice awakes and recognizes the rat as being a magical Wonderland creature, not a common house vermin. As the Rat sings to Alice he is stealing food and gathering goods from her room.
Storyline – The Rat is the vector, he spreads disease and he spreads the dream.
Rat Song
D Bm A G
Not everyone can be 10 ft tall
Some people are large and some are small
D A G
If I were big, I’d tell you all to get off
D Bm A G
Some people are large and some are small
D A G
Not everyone is 10 ft tall
Not everyone can reach everything on the walls
D Bm A G
Not everyone has been to the stars
I am lucky to even have a small part
D A G
I even get to sing a song
D Bm A G
Some people are large and some are small
D A G
Not everyone can be 10 ft tall
Not everyone gona be a star
D Bm A G
Not everyone can play every part
Some people are large and some are small
D A G
If I were big I wouldn’t have to hide in the dark
D Bm A G
Some people are large and some are small
D A G
Not everyone has to be a star
Not everyone can play every part
Dialog
Rat – When walls in life cannot be broken through, the world of dream is all you can do, it’s all you can do. Through this door and through the keep, enter the world of Wonderland dreams.
Action – Alice follows the Rat down the stairs but Alice steps out of the door onto the street with the Rabbit in tow, not the rat. The Blue Rabbit begins to sing his song.
Storyline – The Rabbit navigates Alice through the world. When Charon is the ferryman to the Greek underworld, the Rabbit is the ferryman to the world of dreams. The shovel he carries also links him to The Grim Reaper or Death but represented as the, dream worlds equivalent. The holes that the rabbit digs, are in ones mind, to affect ones spirit, sole and intellect.
Many attempts were made to build off existing rabbit knowledge to produce this song. For example the negative condemnations applied by Jefferson Airplane / Starship in White Rabbit were confronted in an ideological sense, and in a form of a rebuttal. The Dirty Rabbit in Wonderland Rock Opera should be followed, when Jefferson Airplane suggests to Alice “go chasing rabbits And you know you’re going to fall”. Considerations were also made to respect the energizer bunny and the Jack the Rabbit novelty.
It was determined that this Rabbit is Alice’s passionate lover who just wants to run away from these events, which are about to unfold. During the song the Rabbit steps in front of Alice blocking off the street. Alice, to her own demise repeatedly walks around the Rabbit, who is now forced to follow her down the dirty hole. Alice makes the Rabbit go into Wonderland , he goes to protect her and get her back out, if he can. Alice needs to accept the Rabbit as magical, in order for her to follow him. This she never does.
Rabbit Song
A D A
I make starships rise and fall ,
I make the world all look small,
I make dreams all come true
A G A
And Baby I’ll do anything for you 2X
A D A
I make love to you all night long,
And I make summer turn to fall ,
I love everything you do
A G A
Baby I never met a women like you 2X
A D A
I’ll go to hell if that’s what you chose,
I’ll dance around in my blue sued shoes,
I’ll shake the world if you want me to
A G A
Cause I never loved a women like I loved you 2X
D G A
Lets go, Leaving soon,
We can start somewhere new
Cause this aint a place for a woman like you, 2X
A D A
I make starships rise and fall,
I shoot one, I’ll shoot all the stars,
I make dreams all come true
A G A
And Baby I’ll do anything for you 2X
A D A
I can touch you all night long,
Keep you safe and keep you warm,
I can sing and dance like a fool
A G A
Cause baby I never met a women like you 2X
A D A
I’ll go to hell if you want me to,
I’ll beat the drum and sing the blues,
I’ll shake the world if that’s what you chose
A G A
Cause I never loved a women like I loved you 2X
D G A
Lets go, leaving soon,
We can start over somewhere new,
Cause this aint a place for a woman like you 2X
Dialog
Rabbit – In this world…………. We can’t eat the trees, we can’t eat the leaves, we can’t make tea with everything we see, we just can’t make tea with everything we see, do you and can you hear me.
Storyline – Alice speechless still at this point makes only a glancing recognition of what the Rabbit said. As though she has heard this all before.
Action – The Rabbit picks up the Madhatters hat, the Rabbit follows Alice to the gate in the yard. Cross the Evil Tree Spirit guards the gate. Cross prevents Alice and the Rabbit from passing on to the Wonderland street and begins to sing his song.
Cross the Tree Spirit Song
D G D (#) of times sung
Well, the gates gona keep you in and hold you back 2X
G A D
Ya got two cards and both are one eyed jacks
D G D
The gates gona hold you down its gona keep you out 2X
G A D
If you want to get by your gona have to scream and shout
D G D
Oooo Oooo Ooo Ooo Oo
G A D
St Peters got a Cross for every simple fool
A G
One wall to reach the mountain
A D
One wall to reach the hill (And)
A G
If you dig a hole like the Rabbit
A D
You might end up in hell
D G D
Well, doors are shut cause there built to be closed 2X
G A D
And Wonderland is a window you can’t open
D G D
Well doors that stand are made of steel and wood 2X
G A D
And, only burning fire can ever get on through
D G D
Oooo Oooo Ooo Ooo Oo
G A D
St Peters got a Cross for every simple fool
A G
One wall to reach the mountain
A D
One wall to reach the hill (And)
A G
If you dig a hole like the Rabbit
A D
You might end up in hell
D G D
Well, read the sign that’s posted on the fence 2X
G A D
Ya take one step back before you go a head
D G D
Well, the sign says that you’re better off dead 2X
G A D
Lost little angel don’t you hear what I said
Action – The Rabbit begins to sing a song with Cross and pulls and an oddly shaped square pie, out of the Madhatters hat, offering it to Cross as the key to get through the gate. The Square Pie is made of foam, painted to appear as a pie and squished into the top hat, to be recovered now by the rabbit.
D G D
The keys in the square pie I brought you Rabbit
Is it apple Cross
The keys in the square pie that made you Rabbit
Is it cherry Cross
G A D
Open your gate and let us pass through Rabbit
D G A
I see you come with the right key Cross
D G A
Welcome to the Wonderland dream Cross
Action – Cross opens the gate and lets Alice and the Rabbit pass but hands Alice a large pill, which she has accepted needs to be rolled around.
Storyline –Wonderland here is an assimilation of many literary interpretations of hell and the underworld,From Greek to Christian. Alice assumes the role of King Cepheus, from the work Danta’s Inferno. The pills got her here, and it is her labor to push the pill.
Action – The Cheshire Cat appears and begins to sing its song. The song is an awakening to Alice, the words are piercing and she becomes afraid to speak.
Cheshire the Cat Song
Capo 5th
Am C G Am C G
Simon Says wont you ride that Prussian rug,
Simon Says the cats got your tong
Can’t speak can’t purr my dear little one
Cheshire says King Seaphyis can’t come
Cheshire says your nearly well done
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Chorus
Em C G Em C G
You look like something that the cats dragged in
Hanging on a line that’s worn thin
Remove that smile, remove that grin
Dm C G
This ain’t east of Eden west of sin
This ain’t east of Eden west of sin
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Am C G Am C G
Simon Says you got the tiger by the tail,
Simon Says you got the hammer by the nail
Can’t think, can’t sleep now even dream
Cheshire say’s the rats down by the stream
Cheshire say’s the frogs in to deep
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Chorus
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Am C G Am C G
Simon says its raining cats and dogs
Simon says there’s pitch in the folk
Can’t smile, can’t laugh or even cry
Cheshire thinks you got a square pie
Cheshire knows you ain’t got nine lives
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Chorus
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The Rabbit takes Alice by the hand and leads her to the Blue Caterpillar. The Blue Caterpillar character sells magazines and cigarettes off a wheeled city news cart. The newspapers read, nothing but War.
Storyline – The Blue Caterpillar analyzes Alice and performs a physical and emotional critique in his song. In a sense, challenging Alice to be stronger and more open to what she is about to experience.
Blue Caterpillar Song
A G D
Who are you where have you come Who Are U
Are you the hammer or the drum Who Are U
You can hide my dear or you can run Who Are U
I see no pillar to hold up the moon and sun
F#m G A
The things you do have a price
Blue Caterpillar blowing spice
D A G
Glass pipe blown low and high
One hit makes you numb and ones just fine
Bm F#m G
Silver Ribbon tied to paper hearts
D A G
Silk thread to hang them from the walls
Bm F#m G
Poison arrow to tear them apart
D A G
One pill makes you large and one makes you small 2X
A G D
Who takes the lilies from the frogs Wonderland
Are you hiding black magic hearts Wonderland
You can speak or are you deaf and dumb Wonderland
I see no pillar to hold up the moon and sun Sing 2X
F#m G A
These are the things you do in life?
Blue Caterpillar blowing spice
D A G
Glass pipe blown low and high
One hit ain’t enough and ones just fine
Bm F#m G
Silver Ribbon tied to paper hearts
D A G
Silk thread to hang them from the walls
Bm F#m G
Hammer and nail to tear them apart
D A G
One pill makes you large and one makes you small 2X
Dialog
Blue – Alice you crossed the gate, when you return, you wont be the same.
Action – Alice and Romeo sing the Dream song between both worlds.
Storyline – Alice is warned that the pills have permanently altered her emotions and intellect, but she continues to take them and chooses to continue the Wonderland Dream.
Dream song
F#m Bm A
I lay down to Sleep Romeo G D A
This is a Wonderland Dream All
F#m Bm A
How many souls follow me Alice
G D A
This is a wonderland Dream All
Wonderland Rock Opera Main Song Part Two
D F#m G A
Well I I, know the Queen Cards 1-2
D G A
Well, I paint the flowers on the trees Knight
My Dear things go deeper than they seem Rabbit
One pill makes you large and one makes you small and mean Rat
D G A
Well Alice its time for tea (my dear) Hatter
The world’s full of things we can’t eat Frog
Sandman builds castles by the sea Alice
I’ve been up all night thinking (of, up) dreams Romeo
A D D A
Oooooooo Come with me Rabbit
Oooooooo meet the Queen All
A D D A
Well Alice, come with me Rabbit
A G D
The Queen of hearts is someone you must meet Hatter
Who’s that in the mirror that you see Frog
Who got silver slippers on their feet Knight
My looking glass sees the things man don’t see Frog
A D D A
Well Alice Don’t question me Frog
A G D
Those pills will make you mean All
I have too many years and too many things I’ve seen Romeo
There’s a two-way mirror and a one-way stream Romeo
A D D A
Well Alice Don’t question me Frog
A G D
We take small breaths before we speak Rabbit
I lay down and still don’t sleep Romeo
Dialog
Rabbit – The Clock reads 3, its time to meet the Madhatter for tea.
Action – Alice follows the rabbit to the Madhatter who operates a small refreshment stand on the street corner.
Storyline – The tea represents the pills Alice continues to take, forcing her to go deeper into the dream world.
Dialog – No Diolog between Alice and the Madhatter, Alice has no interest in what the Hatter is saying, this is reinforced because no one can hear what he is saying. He tries to talk to Alice but only his lips and hands move, Alice wont make eye contact and is all but lost now. Alice sings her song about gardens and flowers avoiding everything all together.
Storyline – This song was written from lines right out of the Looking Glass. It is the only song written after reading the book. Lewis Carroll does not name one flower in his book but does describe it as having a crown of thorns. This is not a Jesus / Promethean reference although. But a physical description of a flower.
From my exploration of the book it appears Carroll eludes to some poisons potion made from this flower and other flower extracts. The potion was or is used by churches to stupefy their patrons and acquire wealth / donations for the church. The only flower, which meets this description in the physical sense, is Milk Thistle. Think of it this as, swords men attack with swords, archers with arrows, priests and clergy attack with potions. Here Carroll is speaking of potions.
As Alice is tricked over and over to move forward in the book to the next square, or next “square meal”, she becomes more nonsensical like the other Queens “Red and White” until the final Last Supper. Blood and body sacrament are referenced and Carrel nicely adds human cannibalism to the scene where needed, Alice being almost eaten by spoons and cups. Carrel ends the story with Alice violently shacking a kitty and speaking of nonsense, a clear victim of toxic poison. An additional additive to the described poison seems to be Violet flowers and or the Lilly. You can’t eat everything out there in the garden and flowers can be toxic. At concentrated levels, they can be extremely toxic. Toxins will remove someone’s better judgment. Pills seem to have toxins, so the theme is very well interchangeable here.
The pointy hated Red king in Carrel’s book is the pointy hated red Pope. Carroll describes him as dead in the cold grass, so I took this from Carrel’s dirty work. One Pope only lived 33 days before the Masons were accused of doing the dirty. The books are evil have Masonic 33 junk and references to 666. Well, actually 999 that you need to read upside down and through a mirror and a mirror, or what Carrel describes as Through the Looking Glass. Carrel was an Oxford grad and then a math professor at the religious school of Christ Church, which all the priests from the Church of London, the Queen’s church graduated from. I have to say, the books personally discuss me, I find them offensive and full of trickery. Alice’s song needed to come from this nonsensical perspective and reference. She has diminished her real world intellect at this point and only Carroll’s work makes sense to her now.
Alice Song
Capo 5th fret
Dm C G
The Rose spook to the Tiger Lilly
As the wind blew the daisy’s, side by side
The beds to hard to get any rest
And the weeds are here, full of scorn
The violet hides in the vines
From the flower with the, crown of thorns
Dm C G………………..play at 1.5 time
Lilly on the table with a cup and spoon
Bright as rain, dark as June
Chessmen walking, 2 by 2
The face in the clock said I come for you 2X
Dm C G
The Tiger Lilly said to the rose
I don’t know which way the flowers grow
Rest in the beds no rest at all, and
the weeds need pulling and the vines are long
The violet peddle cover the floor, and
Hide from the flower with the, crown of thorns
Dm C G………………..play at 1.5 time
Lilly on the table with a cup and spoon
Bright as rain, dark as June
Chessmen walking, 2 by 2
The face in the clock said I come for you 2X
Dm C G
The Red King sleeps in the grass
Circus full of clowns and pointy hats
Prepare the body, for the mass
Into the crypt goes the last, and
The Violet drops its peddles to the floor
In fear of the flower with the, crown of thorns
Dm C G………………..play at 1.5 time
Lilly on the table with a cup and spoon
Bright as rain, dark as June
Chessmen walking, 2 by 2
The face in the clock said I come for you 2X
Dialog
Madhatter – Alice those gardens hide things that go unseen, things that make the real world, make believe, and things, which can make you not be free.
Rabbit – Only one sole knows this song, so off to met the turtle and off to meet the toad.
Action – The Rabbit take Alice to meet the turtle, who lives on the street and is homeless. He keeps warm by standing next to a burning fire.
Storyline – The Turtle lost his shell and home, and looks more or less like a frog.
Turtle Frog song
F#m A D
A turtle is just another creature of the sea
A turtle is just another creature of the great big sea
A turtle who has lost his shell, is just a frog like me
G D A
The tortoise learns from the school of fish to swim free (2x)
G A
But, a turtle who lost his shell
G D
A turtle who’s lost his shell
F#m G A
Home to the head and tail
G A D
Can only live with the frogs
Can only live in the pond
F#m A D
Once my home was not on the street
Once I had the ocean at my feet……….but
A turtle who has lost his shell, is just a frog like me
G D A
The tortoise learns from the school of fish to swim in the sea (2x)
G A
But, a turtle who lost his shell
G D
A turtle whose lost his shell
F#m G A
Home to the head and tail
G A D
Can only live with the frogs
Can only live in the pond
Dialog
Frog – But, the Sphinx is worst than all. Lost in a world, which is all but gone. Hanging onto the last Queen, and what he thought, that everyone, will be wrong, everyone will be wrong.
Action – Alice runs to hide over welmed at this point and the Wonderland creatures send for Bill the Lizard to get her out. Bill sings his song, which states pills are bad, smoking small amounts of hash is just fine.
Bill the Lizard
Capo 5th fret
Dm C bar G
My name is Bill and I only get high
I got me a ladder to touch the sky, but
One pill takes you up and others take you down
Think your going high and you fall to the ground
My pencil squeaks on the slate board
Hold the book to the glass and read the words
Chorus
Dm F C G
Asses to Ashes, dust to dust
Dm C F C G
My dear Alice what have you done
Dm F C G
Asses to Ashes, dust to dust
Dm C F G
you’re in a, burning house built on the sun
Dm C F C G
you’re in a, burning house built on the sun
Dm C bar G
My name is Bill and I only get high
I got a hand full of matches and a glass pipe, but
But, One pill makes you live and others make you die
You got a circle of eights and cats eyes
My pencil squeaks on the slate board
Through the looking glass you can read the words
Chorus
Dm C bar G
My name is Bill and I only get high
Two small hits off a hash pipe, but
But, these pills are smoke mirror and lies
Sands of poison that fall from the sky
My pencil squeaks on the slate board
My looking glass see broken homes
Chorus
Action – All the Wonderland creatures now circle Alice and she disappears in the crowed. A song erupts between the characters.
You’re the Queen
A G D
You are the Queen of hearts Rabbit
It’s time to show your cards Mad Hater
Your deck ain’t cut, shuffled or clean Rat
You can take me as your joker, baby or king Frog
Action – Alice reappears from the circle of characters wearing the clothes of a poor Queen of hearts. In place of a queen’s scepter is a toilet plunger, which everyone is afraid to be touched by. In place of a crown is a pot with herbs and flowers growing out of it.
Storyline – Alice evolves into the Queen of hearts, emotionally cold and an analogous to Lot’s wife described as a Pillar of Salt.
Note: The Queen song below might be turned into dialog, since a better song has been sketched up. The current Queen song seems too polished and clear for someone under the influence of toxins.
The Queen’s Song
A D A (#) of times sung
You think I am made of flowers and hearts
I think you got me all wrong,
Paint red all the royal cards
G D A
Off with their heads off with them all
G D A G
2 cups and a fool, move on, move on
A G A
You think I am small but I am large
My pillar stands over 10 feet tall
From my Column you can reach the stars
G D A
From where I stand you can strike the gods. 2X
A D A
You think I am sweet but I am hard
I steal the love from any (every) man’s heart
Paint red the white armies and their ponds,
G D A
Off with their heads off with them all
G D A G
Knights and rooks, move on, move on
A G A
You think I am small but I am large
My pillar stands over 10 feet tall
From my Column you can touch the stars
G D A
From where I stand you can fight the God of War Mars. 2X
A D A
You think I am made of sour sweets and tarts
I take the love from all man’s heart
Paint red the white armies and their ponds,
G D A
Off with their heads off with them all 2X
A D A
Sandman, Dream dream on
Sandman Dream, dream on
Action – When the Queen sings “Sandman dream, dream on” she points to Romeo who is sleeping in real life.
Dialog
Queen – Hearts turn cold and then to ice, paint thoughts flowers blood red, from white.
Action – Alice changes into the queen and now holds court and brings in her controlling characters and unrelated issues and conflicts into the picture to avoid dealing with her tragedy unfolding. The characters or friends she brings into the story strengthen her position in the court. The Queen brings in Tweedledee and Tweedledum to her court first, for entertainment and song. This is an attempt to take over the play and dream. This is an attempt to make Romeo’s dream into her dream, make his play into her musical. Tweedledee and Tweedledum sing a song, which references the Idioms, same old song and dance. The bond between Tweedledee and Tweedledum is that they share common ground in the tragedy. Pill users or drug addicts make these kinds of bonds between each other. One zombie turns others into being zombies because no zombie can handle being a zombie all alone. Tweedledee and Tweedledum sing their song together, alternating and finishing each other’s lines.
Tweedledee and Tweedledum Song
A D G
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
Everybody does the same dance and song
What Oz says the queen has done
Tweedle did you look up at the Sun
Yes, there’s no new news or written words, hehehe
How’s that old rattle playing now
Seems to always entertain the simple crowed
Tweedledee make a joke and rhyme
Tweedledum dance in a line
Doc Oz says double time 4X
A D G
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
Everybody does the same dance and song
Did you here what was never wrote
Tweedle did you look up at the post
No, New news or written word hehehe
How’s that old drum beat now
Seems to always entertain the simple crowed
Tweedledee make a joke and rhyme
Tweedledum dance in a line
Doc Oz says double time
A D G
Tweedledee did you get the word
Some people read and others wont learn
Tweedledum did you make that up
No one can be that dumb
Its true, its true and almost fun
I’ll shake my rattle, I’ll beat my drum
Entertain the simple souls
They always do what they’re told
Tweedledum dance in a line
Doc Oz says double time
Action – The Knight approaches the court with the Cat in tow, who is then handed over to the two Cards. The knight kneels to pay respect to the Queen and reads a poem, which is a modification of an original Lewis Carroll poem called Haddocks’ Eyes. All the other characters shake their heads and swing their arms in true disbelief. They boo and hackle the knight. Even the audience is encouraged to also hackle the knight during the reading of the stupid poem.
Storyline – Alice unwilling to confront the real problems of pill abuse, addressed by the Madhatter, Blue Caterpillar, Turtle Frog, Rabbit and Bill the Lizard brings forth issues irrelevant to her situation. The Cat, a lower figure of lesser importance is brought forth to be judged on Cat problems to avoid confronting the main pill issue theme.
The booing and hiss of a represented Carroll poem is akin to a robot attacking its creator, god being attacked by his or her creation or a pyramid attacking its eye. What Carroll made colorful, vibrant and magical simple put, is being destroyed.
Dialog
Knight - I look for butterflies out in the wheat,
I caught the Chestire Cat, riddled here with flies
Judge him as you must but it must go
Down the street, avenue, out on the road.
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The audience is permitted a 15 minute intermission at this point in the play. They leave booing and upset over the events, which have unfolded, not to their satisfaction. This period is required to both settle the crowd vocally and emotionally. At this point the audience is emotional ushered into a state of anger, which is allowed to brew during intermission.
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Action – The audience comes back to their seats to find a courtroom now set up on stage. The Dog character acts as the prosecutor for the Queen when the Cat is left to her own defense. The trial of the Cat and Dog begins, well bounded in a long rivalry.
Dialog
Dog Nonsensical Court of unknown genre is now in session.
Court of the Queen Song
F#m Bm A G
You stand here guilty of crimes Dog
How do you plead for your life Dog
I see no meaning to this I read Queen
Off with this criminal, off with his head Queen
Dialog
Cat Please please, I am not the one
I did not soil your pills or the rug
The dog can’t bark but he can still runs
Action – The two cards take the Cat to the gallows to hang him, but have a problem finding a neck.
Storyline – The old battle between the Cat and Dog is used to avoid the real issues at hand and main theme of the story. To continue to use pills, the Queen needs to find other issues to take control of the play.
Cat Song
D A G
Chestire Cat, come with me Cards 1-2
No, No, No, Cat
F#m G A Cat
I am only guilty of these fleas
D A G
Off with the head said the queen Cards 1-2
No, No, No, Cards 1-2
D A G
Please, Please, Please Cat
D A G
That’s all there is to me Cat
Dialog
Cards 1 One, I see no body, form or shape
Cards 2 Two, only a head absent of any arms or legs
Rat Remove the head, remove the head, she said.
Dream song
F#m Bm A
I lay down to Sleep Romeo
G D A
Wonderland living in your Dreams All
F#m Bm A
How many soles follow me Alice
G D A
Wonderland living in your Dream All
Action – All sing the main song for the last time.
Wonderland Rock Opera Main Song Part Three
D F#m G A
Well I I am the Queen Queen
D G A
Well, I paint the flowers on the trees Knight
My Queen things aren’t what they seem Rabbit
One pill makes you Alice and one makes you the Queen Rat
D G A
Well Alice its time to see Hatter
Who you think you are and what you believe Frog
Sandman plays tricks when you sleep Sphinx
I’ve been up all night thinking (of, up) dreams Romeo
A D D A
Oooooooo Come with me Frog
Oooooooo its time for tea All
A D D A
Well Alice, come with me Frog
A G D
They are all afraid to still speak Sphinx
Everyone is afraid to tell you what they believe Frog
The people under your spell wont speak Sphinx
My looking glass sees the things man don’t see Frog
A D D A
Well Alice Don’t question me Frog
A G D All
Those pills made you into the Queen
Those hearts you hurt need to be free Hatter
That caterpillar needs to change in deed Hater
A D D A
Well Alice Don’t question me Frog
A G D
The butterfly needs wings to fly free Rabbit
I lay down and still don’t sleep Romeo
Action – The Queen marries the knight who than becomes Alice’s puppet king. No one talks during the ceremony, everyone is speechless. Alice not willing to listen to people who cared for her now brings forth her own personal demon, her nemesis represented as the Egg Man.
The Egg man appears now, but outside of Worderland, dancing in the upstairs rooms of Alice and Romeo. At this point the Dream world is making an attempt at breaking though into the real world. Cross begins to lose ground and looks frantically worried. The Sphinx comes to attention but the balloons are not on in his favor.
Storyline – The Queen is now in a state of confusion, which means she is now susceptible to becoming a target of a much stronger and powerful fairytale deity.
The Egg Man Song
D A G
The Egg Man said, I’ll play a fiddle tune,
So I can Sing and Dance under the moon
The King and the court said no music in there halls
If you make your noise I am gona beat on the walls
D G A
I aint good at nothing else I do,
I don’t follow a crowd, I don’t listen to you, and
All castles fall with their King,
up in the air high on a string
D A G
And, All the kings men and all the kings men, said
the egg mans on the wall dancing again. and
The archers drew their bows with the wind, and
shot their arrows in the dark as high as they can
D G A
But I am round like a pie and they all fly off
The only way to get me is if I slip and fall
All bridges cross an open space
When one falls down there is another in its place
D A G
Well, I can last much long then you,
I am light on my feet, I got dancing shoes
The King and the court said no music in there halls
If you make your noise I am gona beat on the walls
D G A
Well, I can go from one end and back and forth,
When you move around you need Soldiers and guards
And, All kings come with castles and walls,
Each brick and stone wont last As long as this song
D A G
And the King and the court said no music in there halls
If you make your noise I am gona beat on the walls
Beat on those walls say I don’t care
I like the rhythm playing up in the air
D G A
All the kings men and the famers and the Jews, said
If we kill the king, we can dance too
And, The castle fell to its keep
The king on a string and pope with his sheep
Action – The Queen attempts to confront and attack the Egg man, who has taken up position in the real world. The Queen, Knight, Cards, Dog and friends Tweedledee and Tweedledum are prevented from leaving by the Sphinx and Cross. The Sphinx is now standing guard next to Cross, at the gate. It appears now that Cross represented a one way door. The damage and changes in one’s personality from pill use is permanent and the psychosis lasts forever. A victim’s reality will always be altered to some degree by the toxins from the pills. Real life to them, is a foggy world of dreams.
Dialog
Sphinx – Four numbers one and three, Alice this answer I did need, your time is out, you stay with me.
Action – The Queen now turns back into Alice, changed forever as the Sphinx sings his song.
Storyline – The sphinx riddle was not solved and Alice is stuck in the Dream world. Alice can now look up to Romeo from the gate and Romeo wakes to look back at her stuck between two worlds. The Sphinx sings his song.
Sphinx song
A Em A
You failed to see
You were told what you would be
When you’re wrong, there’s no right
D A Em
One foot in the day, one in the night
A Em A
You eat all the poisonous treats
You didn’t listen to know bodies pleas
Your head to hard to be free
D A Em
What’s up now down with me
Bm A Em
Let it go, baby let is be
Dear angel how’s that cup of tea
A Em A
You can’t escape this dream
You wont a wake from your sleep
Give me, one two and three
D A Em
You lost every single key
A Em A
You ran from all who can see
Theirs no escape or relief
When your wrong there’s no right
D A Em
When you hold the day and night
Bm A Em
Let it go, baby let is be
Dear angel how’s that cup of tea
Dialog
Sphinx– My service great four, one time in Thebes. Now, I hold onto the last Queen.
Action – Romeo sings his real world song to Alice separated by the dream world. Alice listens to the song carefully, sad that the events were not different but shows little emotion.
Storyline – Romeo can spiritually reach through the dream now and send a message to Alice. Alice cannot talk back or send any message because the Sphinx prevents this. The pills have destroyed her ability to feel emotion, she can only think of how bad her situation has turned out. Turning her now head up to the sky and down to the ground, as if answering yes and no, realizing she had done something wrong but was not able to admit to her own down fall. She takes no responsibility for her actions.
Romeo’s Ending Song
D G
My love is as deep as a sea and goes on forever
I ask you how long that will last and you say never
There’s a break in the night and the night only gets darker
And, no one steps in and out of the dark in the ally
D A G
I thought I was right, I was right and only went crazy
D G
I would climb a mountain higher than the highest cloud
I would walk in the desert hotter, than the hottest sun
I would meet you in the folk of the river where you came from
D A G
I thought I could leave baby but I couldn’t run
D G
I was tied to a post and whipped baby to the bone
Stripped and carried through the street past your home
Placed on a mill and ground to a stone
D A G
I spent many nights shaken like a leaf but all alone
D G
I thought I had the power of god, but his spirit left me
I opened the door and the devil stepped in to me
I was saved by my sole but my sole denied me
D A G
I came to you in the night but you rejected me
Action – Alice moves away from Cross and the Sphinx lost in a Wonderland she has no chance to control. The Rabbit in a last ditch attempt, causing him to losing Alice forever, storms onto the stage, emotionally upset and drops off a blue suitcase.
Alice finds this suitcase, helplessly falling to her knees. She opens the suitcase and pulls out a blue pajama adorned the butterfly wings. Laying on the floor and curling into a ball she struggles to put on the new outfit. This is in respect to a butterfly larva stretching and pulling to crawl out of its cocoon. The changes to Alice are permanent, but her spirit is freed by the love the Rabbit. The Blue Butterfly now appears to help Alice fly back up to Romeo’s room. Leaving the dream world. She sings a song for Romeo.
Storyline – She is crossing over and out of the dream and pill use, but changed forever, the love remains as memories never to be lost.
Blue Butterfly Song
DD AA GG (#) of times sung
My wings can carry me far from here 2X
My Wings can dance on the wind
I send this message to you
Blue…..Blue…..Blue 2X
I leave this now to you
My Wings can carry me on through 2X
My wings dance just for you
I can send a message now to
Blue…..Blue…..Blue 2X
I leave this all to you
Painted pictures on the walls 2X
Shades of light in the dark
My wings can carry me far from here
My wings can dance on the wind
I send this message to you
Blue…..Blue…..Blue
Action
Alice now the Butterfly moves past Romeo and to the unknown to flutter on the wind.
The End
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Old Edits and Songs below that did not make the final cut
I wrote about 8 rabbit songs before I got one I really liked.
Rabbit Song 1 (Hate it so much)
A D G
I am your Captain and your thief
Come Come lets go, follow me
I navigate you through your dreams
Two silver coins is all you need
I make circles in the sand
It is, my vision, that creates this land
Come come, Alice lets go
There is only one place we both know
D A G
There is only one place we both go
There is only one place we can go
A D G
I am your flower and your leaf
Come Come lets go, follow me
You grow stems from these seeds
Silver ribbon and paint is all you need
I make circles to follow down
My feet make all the thumps in the ground
Its my vision that creates this land.
Come come, Alice lets go
D A G
Follow me to the place we both know
Follow me to the place we both know
A D
Cause you’re a long way,
A D
Cause you’re a long way,
A D G
Cause you’re a long long way from home
Rabbit Song 2 (might work for a harder rock play)
Em Em D D A A
OooOoo OooOoo Ooo Dear
Its too late, to late I fear
Come here, come here lets role
The watch men guard the watch tower and road
Their cruel and wicket plans, your fate
But, I stole the key to their gate
Princes, the time is running late
Em Em Bm Bm A A
I take you down to your dream
I take you down to your dream
I am a Ex—istential being
On the influential, nonsensical seen
When there is everything and anything to believe
Em Em D D A A
OooOoo OooOoo Ooo Dear
Its too late, to late I fear
Come here, come here lets role
There’s poison flowers out on the road
The watchmen sell herbs as fine wine
Their cruel and wicket plans your fate
Princes, the time is running late
Em Em Bm Bm A A
I take you down to your dream
I take you down to your dream
I am a Ex—istential being
On the influential, nonsensical seen
When there is everything and anything to believe
Em Em D D A A
OooOoo OooOoo Ooo Dear
Its too late, to late I fear
Come here, come here lets role
Past the shield and stone
Their cruel and wicket plans, your fate
But, I stole the key to their gate
Princes, the time is running late
Em Em Bm Bm A A
I take you down to your dream
I take you down to your dream
I am a Ex—istential being
On the influential, nonsensical seen
When there is everything and anything to believe
