The blurb... In Short...
Welcome to the year 2024. It is the first day of the school in an adorable elementary school in America. A delightful teacher with an extremely common name, Miss Stewart-Thompson-Brown-Smith decides to teach her class of suspiciously adult-like fifth graders all about the tragedy of the 2016 campaign, election and the events that followed. Oh - and Ellen DeGeneres has just been voted in as President.
Through the use of song, rap and pop culture references, the class go through all of the facets of the 2016/2017 debacle, including the whirlwind bromance between Barack Obama and Joe Biden, a terrible speech from Melania Trump and 3 epic Rap Battles for 3 epic debates. But who knows what will happen when Trump is in power? Will he even make America Great Again?!
About US!
Genevieve Tree (book/lyrics/producer) is an accomplished writer, musician, artist and versatile performer, with countless productions to her name. Gen found her passion for music playing various instruments over the years in her childhood, including voice, piano, alto saxophone, ukulele and even ocarina. Following her two years training in musical theatre with Harvest Rain Theatre Company, Gen performed at QPAC in their productions of ''The Pirates of Penzance" alongside Andrew O'Keefe and "Into The Woods" with Eddie Perfect, Rachel Beck and Rhonda Burchmore. Recently, Gen's play "Sshhh!" has been featured in Short+Sweet Brisbane 2016 and Sydney 2017 seasons with rave reviews. Her one-woman cabaret show "Yes, I'm a Serial Nomad" was voted into S+S's Gala Finals in 2015 and won best poster across the entire festival. Genevieve is also currently staring in Brisbane Arts Theatre's production of "Avenue Q" as Kate Monster/Lucy T. Slut which opens in Brisbane in May and tours to Northern Queensland in June. She's previously tackled roles such as Ariel Moore in Footloose, Niki Harris in Curtains, Mona in Chicago (HRTC), Sandy in Grease (RMT), and she is currently studying towards a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing at Curtin University.
Faron Swingler (music/producer) developed a love for music at a young age, learning the piano at the age of 5, the violin at the age of 8, the guitar at the age of 10 and finally drums and percussion at the age of 12 performing in his native Australia as well as Hong Kong, China and the United States. After completing his Bachelor Of Music at the Queensland Conservatorium and his Masters Of Music at UQ, he is currently spending 2017 preparing for his Doctor Of Philosophy. Swingler's musical theatre credits as the Musical Director include Seussical, The Addams Family, Avenue Q (Brisbane Arts Theatre), Beauty And The Beast, Blood Brothers (Beenleigh Theatre Group) and The Wedding Singer (Phoenix Ensemble) as well as the Queensland Cabaret Festival. Future projects that Faron has coming up this year include music directing a Queensland state-wide tour of Avenue Q in June of this year alongside Genevieve as well as receiving the opportunity of music directing the Australian premiere of 50 Shades! The Musical.
Gabriella Flowers (director) received her BA (Hons) in Musical Theatre from Arts Educational Schools London. Since graduating, she has performed, produced and directed in London, New York and Australia. Her recent theatre credits include: Directing Joel O'Brien's one man show "That Awkward Moment" in numerous Queensland based festivals and hitting Hayward Street Studios in late April, Assistant directing 'Kiss, Me Kate in Concert' at QPAC Concert Hall by OperaQ, Assistant directing on 'Little Red Riding Hood' the musical at the Pleasance Theatre, London and playing Fiona Finlay in 'Slammed' at Brisbane’s Powerhouse (which was nominated for 3 Matilda Awards). She also is the lead director and producer of Flowers Theatre Company; a non-for-profit organisation, passionate about site-specific theatre.
Soooo... what are we doing... exactly?
To put it bluntly, currently, the show is being workshopped and rehearsed with the intention to create the best piece of theatre of all time (all time!). The cast of 10 have been assembled to bring the iconic roles such as Donald J. Trump, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and so so so many others to life (whilst poking some good old fun at them of course). To find out more about the wonderful actors we have, please head on over to our facebook page!
On the 25th of April, the show will be performed. No matter what state it's in.
AND THAT STATE IS ALL DEPENDANT ON YOU LOVELY DONATING PEOPLE!
You gotta lend us a hand!
Book a ticket and join us at 7:30pm to get down and boogie.
What We Need and What You Recieve!
Breakin' it down, Lin-Manuel Miranda style:
WE NEED MONEY. Assume we are poor. Take pity on us. Donate to us. Feel good about yourself. Repeat cycle.
The quality of the musical is amazing. Absolutely amazing.
"It's gunna be huge" as Trump would say.
What we need are all those little things that talent just can't buy. Here's a list of them:
- We need to purchase terrible costumes elements. Eg. A shitty Trump toupee. A sub-parr pant suit for Hillary.
- We need to cover costs for the venue we've hired for our first workshop performance and your cash monies can get us there. We didn't aim for Trump Tower, but a roof was a nice touch.
- We need to cover costs for the oodles of trees we have violently murdered when printing out scripts and librettos for the cast.
- And lastly - WE NEED TO PAY OUR ACTORS! It is imperative that this industry supports itself. The actors we have cast are all starving, hungry, malnourished and mostly sad because they have never ever earnt above the tax-free-threshold. Help make their dreams a reality.
But it's so much more than that!
- This money you'd be donating to us is 100% going back into the project. After this development performance there will be further opportunity to see the show grow and set it's sights on a large scale performance, possible tour and possible showing to the over-fed Oompa Loompa himself! If we somehow (in a perfect world) go over our goal, this money would go towards the future of the show.
- We would absolutely be over the moon to reach our goal! Honestly, this money would change our show for good. Then we can truly make theatre great again.
- PLUS - SOME EXTRA INCENTIVE - If we reach our goal before the end of the campaign, the person who made the highest donation will be somehow written into the show.
The most generous 'donate-r' will be immortalised in terrible musical parody history.
If that's not exciting, I don't know what is.
- If you make a donation of $20AUD this will also double as your ticket to the show! We will contact you regarding details to receive your complimentary ticket if the goal is reached before the end of the campaign.
Perks? Perks!
So I know what you're all thinking, "what do I get for my hard earned dollary-doos?"
WELL.
THERE ARE 3 POSSIBLE THINGS (dependant on the amount of said dollary-doos)
PERK 1 - $5AU
Your name on The "Fuck You Trump!" Wall
PERK 2 - $20AU TICKET
A ticket to the spectacle!
PERK 3 - $40AU DOUBLE PASS+AWESOME STUFF
Two tickets to the spectacle AND a signed program from the cast AND a statement on the ''Fuck You Trump!" Wall AND a mystery prize you recieve on the evening of the performance.
Risky Business...
Yes. There are risks with doing a show of this topical nature, however:
We are going to do it anyway.
Regardless if we meet our goal or if not, the show will go on.
But what if I'm a millennial and I don't have any money?
Don't stress if you can't contribute financially speaking (but do know that we secretly hate you), you can always lend a helping hand:
Get the word out! We need YOU to help get this project as famous as Kim K's ass.
Share! Spread the love! Follow us on facebook!
And that's all there is to it.