LISTEN: A Musical Play Script and Lyrics

By Andrew J. Dickerson

LISTEN - A Musical Play Script and Lyrics is a beautiful family oriented fantasy about four young souls who return to earth to tie up some loose ends. The script of the play, as well as the included musical lyrics, are all about truth, joy, peace, love, health, harmony and beauty. LISTEN is a heartwarming play that is tremendously uplifting and entertaining.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andrew J. Dickerson
• Release date: Jun 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310207297

Andrew J. Dickerson

Andrew Jennings Dickerson attended the Berklee music school in Boston to study writing music for films. The college was then known as "Schillinger House" and Schillinger's two 2 most famous students were George Gershwin and Glenn Miller. Andrew then went on to Salisbury State University for a liberal arts education and graduated in 1955. During his University years he always played a lot of music. He and his family also created a musical theme based on the film "The Sound of Music" and performed as a family for children's hospitals, schools, civic organizations and at fairs and festivals. At approximately age sixty, Andrew performed with his own children and grandchildren and with approximately 70 other youngsters between the ages of about 8 to 18, all violins! Andrew played the bass violin because he was the tallest of all the players! The Keili Kids even performed in Ireland in their festivals. Andrew has also performed with the American Legion Symphony Band with approximately 70 other great musicians and has never considered retiring. He says that he would have to live to be about 137 1/2 years old to finish all of his current projects!

Book preview

OVERTURE

The orchestra starts with a very upbeat syncopated rhythm performing the melodic lines of 6 musical compositions in a medley form.

On the 33rd bar the chorus starts singing while walking down the aisles, the chorus stops for 4 seconds while spotlights meander among the singers. The chorus (sometimes a capella) and orchestra create a wall to wall sound crescending to the edge of accelerated tension.

Suddenly, the chorus runs to the stage with the last note and volume being sustained, the curtain rises, an actress dressed in a pure white gossamer gown runs to center stage, while a sky and clouds appear in the background flashing with heavy bolts of lighting and sounds of thunder. The actress stops, stage is dark, spotlight is focused on face and expands to entire body.

Immediately upon the ending of the last note, the prologue begins; the actress very enthusiastically whispers.

PROLOGUE

YEAR 1955

SOUL #1

Listen!

Guess who’s here!

It’s a miracle!

It’s me!

Listen!

You who are watching me.

Listen! and watch

To all the changes in me.

I am an old soul seeking a way to come back to this planet, the beautiful most magnificent planet Earth. I need to come back to learn more lessons, to increase my awareness, tie up loose ends, pay off old debts, and it would feel so good to fall in love again.

You see, I want to know, to feel and to