We Will Rock You

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We Will Rock You (WWRY) musical is a futuristic play. It is set exactly 300 years in future where the Earth is known as 'Planet Mall', which is controlled by Globalsoft Corporation and is ruled by Killer Queen.

In Planet Mall the kids are found to have the same dress, same thought, watch same movies, play same games and listen to the same computer generated music, as if they are planted with cloned chips. In this planet musical instruments are banned and nobody knows about Rock Music. But within them Galileo, referred to as black sheep, hears strange lyrics and songs in his head. These lyrics are long forgotten and therefore could not find any significance to locate it. Irrespective of his teacher's advice he could not confirm to the mainstream of the Planet.

The commander of the Corporation then captures Galileo along with a young woman. Meanwhile the Queen orders the commander to crush the Bohemians who believe in the prophecy that some instruments are hidden on Planet Mall in the "place of living rock", and a "bright star" will show them the path. Sometime after in a scene Galileo and the woman wake up in the ...
... hospital and feel they are the persons who the planet Mall is afraid of. Subsequently, they leave the hospital.

The Queen with all her power had blown all the rocks on the planet and could not find the instruments. She believes that she has overcome the prophecy. But Galileo and the woman while passing through the sewers were talking about he believing in destiny.

Two characters Brit and Meat, who were collecting materials for instruments near the sewers, confront them alleging them to be spies. In the meantime Galileo has named the woman as Scaramouche. Galileo tells all of them that he hears the words 'secret text' all the time in his head. Brit tests him with few lines of Bohemian Rhapsody and Galileo reacts with the following lines. The group then celebrates the motivation for which rock bands started playing music, which was for love. The first act ends with the arrival of the commander with his police and Galileo and Scaramouche escaping once again.

In the second Act Galileo and the woman remove the tracking device from their head. Galileo confides the dream to Scaramouche that the Bohemians are sent to Seven Seas of Rhye. Both of them decide to go there. In between the commander informs about the Bohemians are no more threat to the Queen and the Queen celebrates. At the Seven Seas of Rhye Galileo and the woman meet Pop the librarian who explains them the nature of the prophecy
as inscribed by the three members of the band Queen, just before they were sentenced to death. . Scaramouche figures out that the bright star of the prophecy is rock star Freddie Mercury's statue, which is pointing to Wembley Stadium, the "place of living rock". After reaching the place Scaramouche inspires Galileo to sing "We Will Rock You" and a guitar comes out. Scaramouche plays the guitar and Pop hacks the Gobalsoft network to make every one in Planet Mall to hear it. At last the killer Queen is defeated.

Galileo is seen as a person in dream and comes out as the incarnation of Freddie Mercury , whereas Scaramouche is a cynical and sardonic character who is in love with Galileo.

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