Original Rock Musical
by Gary W. Ferguson
- Set on a cruise ship What Love Should Be is modern and hep
- 45 minutes of excitement from overture to curtain close.
- Simple staging. spell-binding and easy to follow
The Story is Enchanting
Rekindled Love
- Norm ‘s mathematics award includes Cash and a free cruise
- Tex takes wife Ginny on cruise hoping to gain support for political ambitions
- sparks fly – Norm sees ex-wife Ginny aboard the cruise ship
The Music is Electric
Rock your way
- What Love Can See : covers the music spectrum from arias to group harmonies
- The music electrifies the moments in this modern romance
- Engaging and uplifting from curtain to curtain
What Love Should Be
Imagine (overture) 1:07
The imagine overture begins to play
The curtains open
Norm (nerd) is packing a suitcase
What Love Should Be
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Love So Pure 4:35
Norm begins to sing in his native language – mathematics
Norm raises placards:
Mathematics Award (cool)
$1 million dollars (sweet)
And a free cruise (wonderful)
Norm raises a photo of Ginny (awesome)
Norm completes his packing and exits; He slows. Stops. Hesitates then returns for the photo of Ginny. With ceremony, Norm packs the photo into the suitcase
Rain 4:17
Steamy dance scene
Couples pair.
Gimme Back 4:17
Norm holds up Ginny’s photo
He pines for Ginny and those moments
Social Host 3:39
Ginny left Norm to super-size her life
but now finds herself trapped by Tex’s
political ambitions
Tex understands that Ginny may not
embrace the role of social host
Tex makes a note: “consider alternatives”
Different Names 4:31
Ginny is in her hobby-room wearing
coveralls. She stands at a glass-kiln
behind is a wall of colored liquor
bottles
Ginny selects a green gin bottle to soften and shape
Ginny laments – why do the days all have
different names
You (unplugged)
Snippets of You (unplugged) sets the
mood when Ginny and Norm or Tex
and Simone are together
You 4:20
Norm confronts his feelings. He knows
Ginny well and wants her back
Meanwhile Tex and Madame Simone
discuss common interests
Tex sees ala-carte potential with Madame Simone
I Can Imagine 3:37
Ginny and Norm share dreams for a
better world
Together We Share 3:51
Ginny and Norm celebrate
Together they are ready to step into
the future