We Will Rock You
Synopsis
The time is the future, in a place that was once called Earth. Globalisation is complete. Everywhere, the kids watch the same movies, wear the same fashions and think the same thoughts. It’s a safe, happy, Ga Ga world. Unless you’re a rebel. Unless you want to Rock. On Planet Mall all the musical instruments are banned. The Company Computers generate tunes and everybody downloads them. It is an age of Boy Bands and of Girl Bands. Of Boy and Girl Bands. Of Girl Bands with a couple of boys in them that look like girls anyway. Nothing is left to chance, hits are scheduled years in advance.
But Resistance is growing. Underneath the gleaming cities, down in the lower depths live the Bohemians. Rebels who believe that there was once a Golden Age when the kids formed their own bands and write their own songs. They call that time, The Rhapsody.
Legend persists that somewhere on Planet Mall instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock. The Bohemians need a hero to find this axe and draw it from stone. Is the one who calls himself Galileo that man?
But the Ga Ga Cops are also looking for Galileo and if they get him first they will surely drag him before the Killer Queen and consign him to Oblivion across the Seven Seas of Rhye. Who is Galileo? Where is the Hairy One’s lost axe? Where is the place of living rock?
Role
- Meatloaf
Year
- 12 May 2002 - 17 April 2004
Venue
- Dominion Theatre, London
Thoughts from Kerry
After just over a year in My Fair Lady I was lucky to move into the original cast of We Will Rock You, where I created the role of Meatloaf. It was a great step forward for me, and so amazing to create a role from scratch, not to mention working with Brian May, Roger Taylor, Ben Elton and many other fantastic people. The journey was just breath-taking - being invited to perform on TV, at the Queen's jubilee celebrations, Parkinson, Party in the Park, and much more. We recorded an original cast album of the show, and I also recorded a new version of Brian's song "No One But You" with a 40-piece orchestra for release in the download charts.
Source: The official Kerry Ellis website
Musical numbers
Act 1
- Innuendo
- Radio Ga Ga
- I Want to Break Free
- I Want to Break Free (reprise)
- Somebody to Love
- Killer Queen
- Play the Game
- Death On Two Legs
- Under Pressure
- A Kind of Magic
- I Want It All
- Headlong
- No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- Ogre Battle
Act 2
- One Vision/Radio Ga Ga (reprise)
- Who Wants to Live Forever
- Flash
- Seven Seas of Rhye
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- Don't Stop Me Now
- Another One Bites the Dust
- Hammer to Fall
- These Are the Days of Our Lives
- Bicycle Race
- Headlong (reprise)
- Brighton Rock solo
- Tie Your Mother Down
- We Will Rock You
- We Are the Champions
- We Will Rock You (fast version)
- Bohemian Rhapsody
Additional information
Kerry originated this role.
She can be heard on the Original Cast Recording, as well as an orchestral single of "No One But You."
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