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General Audience (2M, 2F + backtracks or band; minimal set) Book & Lyrics by Ian Gschwind and Vanessa LeBourdais The cast of the hit Vancouver Fringe production: (L-R: Barbara Tomasic, Leon Willey, Amy Wallis, Michael Walker) Photo by Ian Gschwind; Artwork by Vanessa LeBourdais; Galaxy courtesy NASA, used by permission. Synopsis Saturday Night Live meets Stephen Hawking. A hit with young & old - men and women - science geeks, sci-fi fans, New Agers, and regular theatregoers - and anyone else who wants a laugh and to walk away humming. Step on board the rocket ship Lollipop with Capt. Joe Arthur and crew and take a trip to the subatomic level where everything is very, very small. On a mission to find the Dimension of Lost Quarters The Lollipop experienced a collision between parallel universes while exploring the hidden micro dimensions. Crew member Ensign Percy was caught in the rift and exchanged for the Ensign Percy of the universe next door. The resultant blast threw the Lollipop into normal macro space. Captain Arthur has ordered the ship back into the micro dimensions to complete their mission. (See also Courier review) Quantum Physics: The Musical was a hit at the 2005 Vancouver Fringe Festival. The authors produced this workshop production. Ride the Quantum Wave and BUY our fabulous show CD: "Songs from Quantum Physics: The Musical" Check out some clips: Quarks Lt. Gwen Shapely (Amy Wallis) explains quarks to Percy, the crewmember from a parallel universe. I Love Math Lt. Gwen Shapely (Amy Wallis) sings to Percy about her greatest passion: quantum math. Dark Matter Percy (Leon Willey) finally recognizes something in the quantum world. But in his universe, they don't call it dark matter, they call it. . . heavy metal. Quantum Entanglement Tango Lt. Cdr. Morgan (Vanessa LeBourdais) and Cpt. Arthur (Michael Walker) sing about quantum entanglement, while Percy and Gwen do a tango lightyears apart from each other.
Leon Willey and Michael Walker in the recording studio during the making of the show album. They're singing a heavy metal tune called "Dark Matter". REVIEWS! #1 Fringe show - Arts Rational Vancouver Courier: "You have to see it to believe that partners Vanessa LeBourdais and Ian Gschwind can make quantum physics sexy and funny. Step on board the rocket ship Lollipop with Capt. Joe Arthur and crew and take a trip to the subatomic level where everything is very, very small. Watch the captain go ga-ga over his very own hadron accelerator. Get the lowdown on atoms, hadrons and quarks. Brush up on your Bohr's Law of Complementarity, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and the Theory of Parallel Universes. LeBourdais' music, ranging from tango and calypso to heavy metal and ballad-and everything in between-is upbeat and catchy. The choreography is lively, the lyrics are a hoot and the four performers have enough energy to put NASA to shame. You can't take your eyes off pint-sized live wire Amy Wallis and Barbara Tomasic simply sizzles when she sings "Gravity is Getting Me Down." If this show tours the country's high schools-and it should-you can expect a whole new generation of atomic scientists to emerge." -Jo Ledingham Audience Reviews! (via email/web) "Hi-larious!" - Jen. "My wife and I were at the Friday show and loved it! It's a show for all ages (we're 60ish, but 'Young at Heart')" - Stuart. "It was a fantastic play and a very enjoyable way to spend 75minutes. I laughed, I giggled, I may have even guffawed. " - JonBen "We're still riding high on the fun we had last night. [My daughter's] singing 'Quarks' and we're killing ourselves laughing about quantum physics being "a bunch of hoofala". I consider this show a service to humanity; tour it please." Lisa B. "Well, this was a very clever, funny performance. The music was lively, and the perfomers were good. I thoroughly enjoyed it." " I enjoyed the musical tremedously (enough to wish I could have afforded a soundtrack). . . the event was both quite cool and worthwhile. (I thought the lyrics of many of the songs quite clever)" "The musical was funny, sweet and educational in turn." "I learned some interesting "smart people" stuff! Fun event." For the complete script, please contact the authors, with your name and the name of your theatre company, and we'd be delighted to send you a script.
Doing a line run on the grass...what a life! (L-R: Michael Walker, Ian Gschwind, Barbara Tomasic, Amy Wallis)
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