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Alright, since it’s been decided by majority, I’ve made a discord server for this project! Feel free to join. I’m currently quite busy as of late so I probably won’t be that interactive until later today, but I will see you guys soon!
- Fish McDo
Check out the Blue Skysical || 🌾🌤 community on Discord - hang out with 3 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
Wait guys, are y’all in favor of joining a Discord server for this musical? I know the Chelley server exists (because I’m in it lol) but I feel like having a hub to discuss progress on this specifically will make things run much smoother. Lmk what y’all think!
- Fish McDo 🩵
Blue Skysical Discord Server?
Yes!
No, I think this blog is enough.
Hey guys! So, I’ve been gone for, almost a year now (dear god 😭) I am terribly sorry for the lack of updates on the show so far as I have been busy performing for another musical that we just closed yesterday, (Ftr, this will be important later) so, I haven’t been able to make much progress on the songwriting and score, however, since we wrapped up closing night (I’m still, very emotional 😭) I have been inspired to work on Blue Skysical again! I’ll drop my updates on one of the songs (ftr, it’s the one with the dance during midnight after Fox starts running) as well as someone of the sketches for the costumes and mockups of the proposed stage design as well, tysm for your patience ONCE AGAIN I AM SO SORRY FOR BEING MIA!!! 😭😭😭
- Fish McDo 🩵
Y’all “critical thinking” does not equal “criticism”.
I am very tired of saying positive things about characters and getting told I need to do some critical thinking (so that I’ll see the characters are actually bad). No. That’s not how that works. I already did some critical thinking and came to the conclusions that these characters are wonderful. Criticism or straight up character bashing is not more enlightened and is not how critical thinking works. “Critical thinking” is not “thinking about all the bad or problematic aspects of something.” It’s looking objectively at evidence, looking at context, recognizing and examining personal biases and assumptions, considering what assumptions and biases are being used in a given argument by other people, etc. Sometimes this process brings up criticisms, yes, but sometimes it also leads to the conclusion that something is actually good despite it being made out to be bad.
Critical Thinking means making room for nuance and shades of gray. Not criticize stuff I don't like.
Also, it's okay to find something you absolutely detest and still recognize the craft and genius in it.
:(
You good, anon?
-Starry
me too man…
(Sorry if I haven’t been updating much if that’s what’s bothering you, I’ve been working on it but damn I’m busy TnT)
- Fish
:(
You good, anon?
-Starry
So, I finally got to formatting whatever drivel I’ve worked on for this, so here’s the book/script! This of course is just the first draft so things will definitely be edited, but for now, this is how the final book would look in its format.
- Fish
Book, Lyrics and Score by @blueskymusical and Volunteers Based off of the novel and games by @wafflebloggies and VALVe CHARACTER
OHHH BOY!
Hey, so I know it’s been a month (or more, I’ve lost track of time TnT) since I last made a post for this blog… whoopsies. Don’t worry, I’ll be trying my best to make at least one to two posts every Sunday/Saturday. (I would make an excuse that I was busy, but let’s be honest here I procrastinated BAD.)
But while you were waiting, I was able to work on a draft for the prophecy song! (I also have a couple set/costume/prop designs I’ve prepared, I’ll def send those later today as well.) I’m gonna work on the instrumental for the Recap Interlude before I get back to these lyrics as well, because I usually take a lot of time to work on smth else before I start polishing drafts TnT
DOWN HERE IN HELL DRAFT ONE
(note: all parentheses are wheat dialogue, also gonna work out the melody and rhythm for this later)
Verse 1:
The window to tomorrow
Is one that I’ve unlocked
And now that you’ve arrived
It’s time I gut the clock
(Excuse me?)
You gaze upon a Huntress
Her figure, still as stone
The Labyrinth, striking the senses
Is all that you both know
CHORUS:
Down here in Hell
There’s much I pray to tell
Your future, a shell
To here, you bid farewell
(A shell? I’m sorry, I beg your pard-)
Verse 2:
Down and down they stretch
The bowels of the Earth
And soon arrives the Empress
Her scorn which they’ve both earned
But soon arrives the Fool
Their triumph, bold and true
Until his heart is tooled
And hers is left askew
CHORUS:
Down here in Hell
There’s much I pray to tell
Your future, a shell
To here, you bid farewell
The sky, so clear, pristine
The dream just out of reach
One day, you’ll see it free
But lights will blind your feed
Your future, a shell
Down here in Hell
If you have any questions or any other suggestions please tell me, or place them in the masterdoc, ty!
- Fish
WE’RE SO BACK!
Ello!
Now, I’m sure as most of you know, this blog and hypothetical musical idea has been in stasis (reference?!?!) for quite a few years now. But, recently I wanted to try reaching out to the original owner of this blog (live laugh love @starry-nightengale the legend) to maybe get a chance at bringing this idea back to life, and somehow, I ended up getting a spot in this blog! I’m honestly so thankful, and I’m really glad to start working on this project.
(Oh and as a disclaimer, the original draft of this idea was to be a jukebox, like the Geekenders’ run. But currently I’m working towards it having an original soundtrack and score. Do with that info as you will.)
- Fish M.
(idrk what else to add here so I’ll just pop the masterdoc for the show here)
Blue Sky: Yet Another Portal Musical - Google Drive
Welcome, Fish! So glad someone is finally going to take this project somewhere xP
And you won't hear any objections from me about original songs! Honestly I would've gone that route myself if I'd been at all capable. You've got some great ideas so far, if I do say so myself!
-Starry✨
Oh and I know they’re already in the master but for simplicity’s sake I’ll drop the (FIRST DRAFT) soundtrack/outline here too. If you have questions feel free to ask, I won’t be able to answer them right now, but in a few hours I’ll definitely be going through them.
WE’RE SO BACK!
Ello!
Now, I’m sure as most of you know, this blog and hypothetical musical idea has been in stasis (reference?!?!) for quite a few years now. But, recently I wanted to try reaching out to the original owner of this blog (live laugh love @starry-nightengale the legend) to maybe get a chance at bringing this idea back to life, and somehow, I ended up getting a spot in this blog! I’m honestly so thankful, and I’m really glad to start working on this project.
(Oh and as a disclaimer, the original draft of this idea was to be a jukebox, like the Geekenders’ run. But currently I’m working towards it having an original soundtrack and score. Do with that info as you will.)
- Fish M.
(idrk what else to add here so I’ll just pop the masterdoc for the show here)
Blue Sky: Yet Another Portal Musical - Google Drive
Hi! Question, is this a project that's still being worked on?
Hello!
...I don’t want to say ‘no’. The dream is still very much alive, and I’m still as much in love with Portal and Blue Sky as ever. I still would love for a Blue Sky musical to come to fruition someday!
But all I have-- all I’ve ever had-- are abstract ideas for the tone and the shape and the look of the musical, and that can only take a project so far. I don’t know how to do any of the practical/concrete things (particularly the songwriting, which is arguably the most important part of putting together a musical) and I can’t say that I know anyone who does.
When I first created this blog, it was with the hope that other people who could do the things I couldn’t would hop onto the bandwagon and we would come up with something collaboratively. Like what the team who created Turnabout Musical for the Ace Attorney fandom ended up doing a decade ago (holy shit it’s actually been that long)! And that just kinda never really happened? I’m not sure why. Maybe I shouldn’t have said “we” so many times when responding to asks when it’s always been just me xP. Maybe that gave people the impression that I actually had a team working on this with me irl and I didn’t need any help or something.
But I also don’t just want to officially throw in the towel and say “let someone else do it! Let a Blue Sky musical get made without me”, y’know? Because the ideas that I do have, I’m really attached to. They are what I would want to see more than anything in a Blue Sky musical. If one got made without those things, it wouldn’t make me feel any better because I’d be forever haunted by what might have been!
So I guess, tl;dr, the project is not in fact currently being worked on, but only because I’ve reached the limit of what I can do by myself.
Thanks for the question~!
Welp. I know you're currently working on the more earlier scenes but, I couldn't help myself. How about "Ready As I'll Ever Be" from Tangled: The Series for the part in Ch13 where, Wheatley prepares himself to be sent back to Aperture. The "accepting that his actions came harm others" theme in the first part fits with Wheatley. (this part is sung by the villain, so some alteration is necessary) And the second part may be given to GLaDOS as she prepares Chell for her eternal punishment?
I’m familiar with that song xD It’s pretty darn amazing, isn’t it?
Thank you for the suggestion, but I have another song in mind for that scene already. Admittedly it’s not 100% set in stone, but I do kinda have my heart set on it~.
How's the script going? Finished or work in progress?
Truth be told, I haven’t started writing the script yet. I want to get most of the songs finalized first, and then figure out how best to wrap the story and dialogue around them, y’know? Lead into and out of them in the most natural way possible~
Of course Mr. Blue Sky will be a song in this right?
Absolutely! It’ll happen when Wheatley gets Foxglove working, just like in the book. I’m also thinking that it might make an appearance at the very end too, right before “curtain call”
Welp. Seems like “Every Day” wins~.
Anyone remember the last time The Count of Monte Cristo appeared on this blog? It was a long time ago xP.
This song was brought to my attention earlier today as another candidate for the pre-reunion duet at the beginning of the musical. Don’t let the title intimidate you, I can definitely see this potentially working. (And eliminating the third singer’s part or merging it into one of the other two should be simple enough).
The other top candidate for this spot is If Only, from The Little Mermaid. I want to know what you guys all think: Which song do you like better (and, if applicable, why)?
ooh! I just listened to both and I like “everyday a little death” better personally. I just think it’s too lovey dovey and would have to be edited? because wheats is still a core and it’d be weird if chell was like “I have all these things to tell him~” xP
Of course the lyrics would be edited, that's a given for most of these songs. (It just helps if the original context matches at least a little bit). Like I told @volcanicflowers, Chell's part could involve her singing about pretty much anything.
