Suspend Your Disbelief

A musical number about musicals.

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Date: March 18, 2005

Category: Music

Appearing: Andrew Cownden, Patrick Donison, Rachelle LeBlanc, Jeremy Petter, Duncan Watt, Russ Reilander, Paul Saunders, Azin Seraj and Rocky Mann

Writing: Andrew Cownden and Graham Stark

Music: Andrew Cownden

Camera: Graham Stark

Editing: Graham Stark

Location: UVic

Synopsis

Since Pat finds musicals absurd. Andy uses the power of song and dance to change his mind.

Behind the Scenes

"This oddly popular video was written in a weekend and put together over spring break. Graham called me up and said he had this idea for a musical number. I hummed out a melody, then Graham and I brainstormed lyrics. With a rough chord structure, Graham was able to get me into a small computer lab at Uvic in the Visual Arts building where after four or five days work with the Garage Band program, we were able to pound out the track. We shot it in an afternoon, everyone lip-synching to a scratchy boom-box, Graham being dangerously carted around with his camera on top of a borrowed dolly from the art department. Then the whole thing was edited and put on the site. Thanks again to everyone who helped to put it together. I'm so glad people enjoy it, even though the music isn't as clean as I'd like it to be." - Andy

Trivia

• One of the many bunnies at UVic interfered with filming.
• This video was screened at the LoadingReadyRun Fifth Anniversary Screening as it was tied for second fan favorite

Lyrics

Suspend your disbelief

I hear an underscore, can you hear it?

Hear what?

I feel a song in store, can you feel it? It may be corny, and cheesy i know, but that why i love it soooooo, cause.... life's more worth living for with muuuuuuuuuuuuusic...

Hang on, you know what this needs? CINEMASCOPE!

Come along with me my friend, let me tell you 'bout the music, let me help you comprehend. Before you start to lose it, come along, come along (look, musicals are stupid). Come along (oh yeah and i'll tell you why) come along...

Ok you see musicals, they're retarded, they dont make any sense, y'see, theres just all this stuff going on, they've got everyday people dancing in time...

Thats the ideaaa...

And you see all these people, they have to speak in rhyme.

Thats the ideaaa

If your everyday life is getting you down, and you're looking for relief, just escape through a musical, suspend your disbelief. When laundry, traffic work and taxes, cause you so much pain. Just think of old gene kelly, when he was singin in the rain.

Hey buddy give that back But it illustrates a gene kelly reference so poingnantly you stay right there, i'm calling campus security Wait! Can you hear an underscore... yes i hear it can you feel a song in store? yes i feeel it

Duet: theres a melody calling me there (1.), its lifting me into the air(2), gee, lifes more worth living for...(3)with music

(1.)Its never too late to begin (2) i knew it could kid (3) with music

uhhh this is rediculous Thats why its so great yeah

All together

Come along with us and see, how the sparkle and the spangle, can jazz up your old routine, take the world from a new angle, come along no come along yeah i'm just gonna step off the ledge come along geez come along

look you guys you just dont get it, i mean *sighs* the sets are too loud and the characters dense Thats the idea the plots are contrived and dont make any sense thats the idea

Duet If your everyday life is getting you down and you're looking for relief, just escape through a musical, suspend your disbelief. Take rodgers and hammerstien 'Suntime and weather(?)' girschwin and bodski and mix them together add in some singers like andrews and garlen, crosby and kelly were just getting started

Whaddaya say pal?

i can hear it

Everyone: HALLELUJAH

i understand now its all around me come along its like my whole world is in a key change Come along there it is Come along

i want a gilbert and sullivan orchestration, and a webber rock opera innovation! if your everyday life is bringing you down and you're looking for relief, just escape through a musical, suspend your disbelief

All together: Where sailors dance and break into song just remember the phrase that will help you along, we could sing it for days but we'll put it in brief, suspend your disbelief!

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