Tightened up Beat Sheet from Rob

Scene 1: PROJECTION OF SHIP AT DOCK.

Introduce characters arriving at the ship. Greeted by the CRUISE DIRECTOR, each getting a brief intro moment.  PROJECTION of BOARDING PASSENGERS and b.g. players.  A harried young woman, HANNAH sneaks aboard and the cruise director mistakenly thinks she’s the new entertainment coordinator.  He introduces Hannah to the characters and she plays along. Hanna is told there are some challenging groups aboard this week but that she can handle it.  A flummoxed Hanna goes along and accepts the challenge.  We find out it’s a break up cruise, which is ironic since

She snuck on to find love after being dumped from her fiancé.

2: Introduce ISACC’s character, one of the downstairs’ workers. PROJECTION OF THE BOWELS OF THE SHIP—this contrasts to the glamour of the upstairs section. He opens up about class distinctions, poverty (haves/have-nots), etc.  He could be a moral guide.

3. BREAK UP COUPLE (Chris’s scene) on the deck of the ship. Reveal that she’ll be the SUICIDE GAL, devastated at her breakup since she thought he was going to propose. Hanna comes and instructs them about the big dinner - the break-up is not yet revealed.

4. We meet the TWO FUNNY OLD DAMES who are dumping their husbands of 40 years.  Think Bea Arthur and Ruth Gordan.

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5: CRUISE DIRECTOR starts a rhumba line and they drunkenly dance through the ship. PROJECTION. Introduce UNDERCOVER JOURNALIST, who will fall in love with Hannah or Suicide Gal?

6: WELCOME DINNER.  Hannah is forced to make a toast. Fights ensue with the fighting couples. We see Chris’ break-up scene.  Hanna feels terrible/guilty after the dinner and this prompts her to sneak away.

7: MUSICAL NUMBER?  A 5-minute version of “Saturday Night Fever, the Musical” or  “Cats” or “Rent” with our crew singing. The Suicide Gal gets even more depressed after watching this.

8 Second suicide attempt. (Girl from Chris’ break-up scene is so distraught that she tries to jump overboard/kill herself only to fall into a lifeboat hanging on the ship’s side.)  She lands on the Journalist Despite nearly killing him there is chemistry.

9: The two old women encounter the PIRATES.  The pirates are meth addicted rich kids who want to hijack the ship?  The ladies, unaware that the young pirates are druggies, cougar out on them and take them to the buffet (PROJECTION) and drinks and dancing.

10. Hanna is feeling terrible about the break-up dinner and sings longingly about it only to encounter a poor ship’s worker (Isaac’s character?).  They sing together.  Perhaps it’s revealed that she is from a very wealthy family and she longs for real love. The toilets start to overflow

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11. Suicide gal ends up saving someone’s life and realizes how precious life is. She hooks up with the journalist.

11: When the upper deck (First Class) cabin toilets plug because of their misuse of them the toilets on the lower decks begin to overflow and a mutiny of the lower classes begins as they march up to get the rich.  All of the characters are brought together and hell is about to break loose when Hanna and all chorus sing of the trials as the ship goes down.  The old ladies jump ship with their pirate lovers. Everyone boards the lifeboats. PROJECTION

 

12: Finale!  A HAITIAN BEACH-PROJECTION The chorus sings a la Broadway musical of the highs and lows Ship sinks behind them.  The End.