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ROCK AND ROLL SUICIDE - 2010

Max Gunn & Paul Halsted in Rock and Roll Suicide - David Bowie rock opera - 2010 - WhirlwindNZ Production

CONCEPT:

 

Create a Rock Opera using only the lyrics of Bowie Songs as Dialogue.  Make it a full scale Musical with a Company of players to demonstrate locations and passage of time. Make the story a generic story of the rise and fall of 70's stardom and not anything particular to Bowie himself. 

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Poster - Rock and Roll Suicide 2010 WhirlwindNZ Production

CAST:

Musicians/ Singers rather than experienced Musical actors.

People with character and life experience.  

No Musical Theatre voices.

No professional dancers.

Drug abuse experience a plus.

 

Auditions to be held in a nightclub.

 

"How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?"

 

 

Official poster for Rock and Roll Suicide - David Bowie rock opera - 2010

L-R: Shaun Vining (Idol), Jeremy Harris, Pearly McGrath (Suzi), Jen Shelton, Katy Anderson, Max Gunn (Joe), Jason Fullerton, Trish McInerney, David Oakley, Liz Drysdale. Seated: Paul Halsted, Tiffany Menzies, Helen Bird, Thomas Brinsley. (Missing: Sam Hillman (DJ), Martin Grounds, Margaret O'Hanlon)

"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs."

 - Jim Morrison

Rock and Roll Suicide - WhirlwindNZ Production

INSPIRATIONS:

Drugs,

Funk,

LA,

Excess,

Street,

Avant-garde,

Medusa,

Poison apple,

Eternal youth,

Greek Mythology,

Dead Rock Stars,

Fame Grotesque,

Mime,

Bollywood,

Fame,

Band on stage,

Silent Films,

Digital vs. Analog, 

Harold Lloyd.

Max Gunn & Pearly McGrath - Rock and Roll Suicide 2010 - WhirlwindNZ Production
Kay Turner, Costume Designer & Margaret O'Hanlon, Director - Rock and Roll Suicide - WhirlwindNZ Production

Rock and Roll Suicide was the first production where we really pulled our team together.  Kay Turner (amazing Art Director), Anna Stuart (brilliant choreographer), and Marty Grounds - who was not only my co-producer, but my Set Designer, Technical Advisor and Performer; David Oakley on the video production... everybody in the cast played a part.  It was the birth of Whirlwind.

Process - Rock and Roll Suicide - WhirlwindNZ Production
Inspiration - Rock and Roll Suicide - WhirlwindNZ Production
Press

The Press went crazy...   (Click on clipping to read more)

0800jukebox
bowiedownunder.com
Mountain Scene
Network54
Otago Daily Times
Radio New Zealand/National Radio
davidbowie.com
Otago Daily Times


Whirlwind Productions NZ is a small but insistent original music and theatre collaborative  dedicated to creating original entertainment in Queenstown NZ,
a small town in the South Island of New Zealand.  


We write all our own shows and know and awful lot of telented people.

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