FEATURED ARTISTS & MUSICIANS!
Parallel Universe features young artists making affirmative contributions in music, writing, musicals.
A special thank you to those who've acted as sounding boards or advisors or who link to the work of Parallel Universe. Here are some.
Many thanks to --
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Shawn Gallaway
New Exciting Project:
"The Choice" -- and hear/see the wonderful video of "I Choose Love" on YouTube.
"The Choice" is a multi-media theatrical production encompassing art, music, dance, photography, film, and drama. The musical has been compared to "Godspell" and is based on Shawn's moving music, teaching, and artwork. Also go to www.shawngallaway.com for music, artwork, and more about this most remarkable and giving artist.
Thank you, Shawn!
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Molly McCue
"Molly McCue the EP 2007"
Molly is a remarkable young affirmative artist and songwriter of spiritual and soulfull music, who has been very supportive during the creation of "Parallel Universe the Musical..." Listen to some of the songs on "Molly's New EP " and don't miss her performances.
-- A hearfelt thanks, Molly!
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Jennifer Posada
"Soul Sounds" - The CD
Jennifer Posada is a remarkable oracle, teacher, healer, sound toning artist, and author, The Oracle Within. Her young voice has clarity and calms the mind from ancient places, where we see a glimpse of a different future. She encourages with wisdom and support, those who want to fly off and create in unknown realities and parallel universes...
Thank you, Jennifer...
The Oracle Within,
Jennifer Posada
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Nick Thomas
"Winter Hill Lane"
Winter Hill Lane -
Nick Thomas' wonderfully calming and inspiring Winter Hill Lane can be accessed online at Winter Hill Lane Productions. Or go to the iTunes store, search for the Winter Hill Lane podcast and subscribe.
Nick has been a tireless music and recording advisor for Parallel Universe for half a decade. Truly, the music exists and is being recorded in no small measure due to his wisdom and encourage-ment. ("Hey, it's easy to set up a music studio!") Nick and Emmie Thomas were the first to hear the original Parallel Universe songs...
Thanks, Nick and Emmie...
:)
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"Parallel Universe the Musical: The Dance of Life"
A Science Fiction Musical of Transformation by Sandra Hudlow Rodman
Production Information: 425-214-2926
Close Encounters of the Heart...Love Across the Dimensions... Songs for Soulmates...
Mind Meld Music...
New! See Also "Cosmic Cowboys: The Musical" -- published by Parallel Universe --
book, lyrics, music by
Sandra Hudlow Rodman -
Free online...
Download "Parallel Universe" Play and Music Samples
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Download Music/Lyrics Samples from "Parallel Universe" for Free:
Available now -- "Somewhere Is Too Far," "You Touch Me," "A Starr in Love," recorded by the composer. Call for Singers: We are looking for Singer-Actors in the Seattle area as we create new music demos. Contact Parallel Universe at 425-214-2926.
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Download Act I of the Musical Script
Download the Introduction: Characters, Production Description: Description of the Characters, production design notes, creating a parallel universe environment. Background regarding the creation of the play. Complete outline of Scenes and Music. Character analysis and descriptions.
Download Act I Complete Script and Lyrics.
Available for the first time.
This is a free download.
Permission is granted to use these scenes for non-commercial personal performances in dramatic classes, for auditions, etc., if full copyright attribution is given.
Note for DOWNLOADERS: The Parallel Universe logo, titles, headers only in designed publications normally use the MISTRAL font, like that in the example below -- which some people don't have on the computer. If you have the Mistral font and want the original titles/headers/footers design version with Mistral font, click here for Introduction and click here for Act I. (Otherwise your titles and will render as a weird courier font.)
Sample of Mistral font logos.
For production information call
Parallel Universe - 425-214-2926.
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A Brief Introduction to "Parallel Universe The Musical"
1. Brief Overview: An outline of the acts and information about some of the characters and plot.
For details, download the introduction which includes a full table of contents, character description, list of the music, production design instructions, character analysis and description.
2. Act I description, Acts I-IV scene outline
3. Multidimensional Description
4. Quotes/Excerpts
5. Some Character Notes
6. The Dedication
7. Acknowledgements
(C) 2007 Sandra Hudlow Rodman. All Rights Reserved.
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OVERVIEW:
"Parallel Universe the Musical" is a Two-Part science fiction musical of transformation:
PART I: "EXPERIMENTAL LIFE FORMS"
Act I: "The Dance of Life" (download)
QUOTE SCREEN ONSTAGE: “…there should be at least 100 million planets capable of supporting life in the cosmos.”
-- Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory
of Everything, 2004, Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D.
Act I... In which we meet the beautiful Artemis, who was sitting in the audience and didn't want to come to a musical at all -- but finds herself wearing the glowing silver sandals and silver hair pins of the gods and somehow the large, dark ancient eyes and 7' presence of Rom are so familiar... ("Alien abduction, alien abduction!" -- Artemis)...
And Jason, a cosmic dancer who fears Oron and going backstage equally because he doesn't know what he'll find when the curtains of a vaster universe are drawn...
And Oron, the Narrator, 8' tall from a blue crystalline planet, who bids us enter this parallel Reality Theatre tells us, "There is no such thing as fiction." Act I
And a Starr in love.
STARR: "What do you mean, you don’t love me? Preposterous! Of course you love me. .. I am always loved. It’s the way things are..."
- Scene 1, "Reality Theatre"
- Scene 2, "The Dance of Life Ballet"
- Scene 3, "Experimental Life Forms" (Video)
- Scene 4, "Unknown Realities"
- Scene 5, "There's a River into Lifetimes"
- Scene 6, "A Starr in Love"
Act II: "The Great Experiment"
QUOTE SCREEN ONSTAGE: “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
-- Albert Einstein
- Scene 1, "Don't You Know Who You Are?"
- Scene 2, "Every Planet Is Somebody's Mother"
- Scene 3, "Identity Theory"
- Scene 4, "The Great Experiment"
- Scene 5, "Alien Abduction"
- Scene 6, "Mother Earth"
- Scene 7, "Can You Say I Love You?
PART II: "MAGIC"
Act III: "Magic"
QUOTE SCREEN ONSTAGE: “’Someday,’ said the Jesuit philosopher Teilhard de Charin, ‘after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness…the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.’ ”
-- Amit Goswami, Ph.D. The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World
- Scene 1, "Perennials"
- Scene 2, "Magic"
- Scene 3, "Blue Diamonds, Blue Rivers"
- Scene 4, "You Touch Me"
- Scene 5, "Resistance Is Futile" (Video)
- Scene 6, "On Every Planet There's Somebody..."
Act IV: "Parallel Universe"
QUOTE SCREEN ONSTAGE: “There are three points I want to make tonight. First, I feel that my generation was saddled with a burden heavier than that of any other people in history, a legacy of polluting our world to the brink of destruction. Second, changing it will require far more than recycling and other environmental Band-Aids. And third, we women must play a major role. We are the nurturers. Above all else, this transition will be about shifting ourselves into earth-honoring and sustainable ways of living.”
-- Jessica Perkins, age 12, speaking at the 1995 International Women’s Conference, as quoted in Shape Shifting by John Perkins.
- Scene 1, "String Theory "
- Scene 2, "My Home Away from Home"
- Scene 3, "Parallel Universe"
- Scene 4, "The Disappearance"
- Scene 5, "In the End, Love"
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A Multidimensional Description
A non-traditional, multidimensional, science-fiction musical where soul mates are somehow attracted through interdimensional reality -- and "string theories" apply to more than physics as the beings try to create a new kind of science to bridge between universes what the heart can already perceive.
Songs of things to come.
"Close Encounters of the Heart."
Mind meld music and a love that you can neither understand nor deny,
waiting in the wings of the theatre...
This play is part of The Parallel Universe Transmissions and was written in an unusual way. See The Oron Transmissions, for background about Oron, both the play's Narrator, and the source of unusual multidimensional or automatic writing.
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Quotes/Excerpts:
ACT I
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JASON: But I don't want to be an experimental life form.
ORON: Too late...
Act I
ACT II
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ROMAYER, THE SCIENTIST: But how shall we build a bridge between universes? What about quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle? Nothing is certain until the Observer chooses.
JOLINAY, THE EXPERIMENTER: We're talking about the Ultimate Observer?
ROMAYER: Yes.
JOLINAY: What if uncertainty is not a problem. What if uncertainty is a solution. We have only to find the problem that it solves. But for whom?
ROMAYER: No whom in quantum mechanics.
JOLINAY: I beg to differ. There are whoms in quantum mechanics in 100% of our experiments. The observer resolves the uncertainty, the observer is required to complete, to manifest the experiment. Without the observer's choice -- nothing happens, in reality.
Act II
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JOLINAY: But in quantum transactions there always exists a kind of permanent moment of uncertainty. Until we select the experiment's target. So the Observer, this ultimate Observer, must be attempting to (she smiles as a bright gleam appears to come from the eye)... entertain herself… To use the uncertainty, to pit herself against uncertainty, to learn what she could not learn from a predictable universe. Unpredictability gives you passion for knowing, for resolving the uncertainty. And that gives you endless resolution.
ROMAYER: She?
Act II
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ORON: It is this darkness, it is this deep space that alone exposes the brilliant light that draws us ever forward into its consciousness. We cannot be who we are without exploring the still mind of dark energy, the deepness where we were born… Who are we, in the deep caverns of our cells, their little honeycombs so full of knowledge in that center of life where tiny sparkles of living consciousness wake up every day and know us...?
And in this exploration, we must risk being loving, risk laughing, risk being afraid, risk being happy – risk being joyful: The ultimate risk. I ask you to take that risk tonight.
It is why you have evolved. In this silence you can touch the stillness of all mind, hidden beneath the density of thought. You live in this disguise, but this agony is not who you are. It is time to remove the masks that hide you from each other and from the energies of the many visitors who slide in and out of reality, hidden in plain sight. And with this act, you will remove the mask of planet Earth, who longs for you to remember her as she really is.
Act II
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PHOEBE: You must learn the silent roads of your mind, to converse openly with the variously decorated and anciently derived beings who surround you every day, trailing centuries of civilization in their fields as they pass you…
ROM: Even the planets hail you by name...
Act II
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Act III
ORON: Magic is the daily bread of the universe, and you, my friends, are starving...
Act III
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ORON ON NANOTECHNOLOGY: It is said by your scientists that there is "plenty of room at the bottom." I say, "There is no bottom."
Act III
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ACT IV
THE GODDESS: You are self-confined only to a galaxy of thought. You are confined to the dimensions of your definitions and nothing more. In truth, when you open your heart in compassion for the first time, you open your eyes for the first time.
Act IV
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Some Character Notes...
The couples...
- Oron, from the Blue Planet, and The Goddess who sits on the Moon singing of Blue Rivers...
- Jolinay, the Experimenter from Earth, and Dor from the Blue Planet; Jolinay is also pursued by Romayer, from a Parallel Universe
- Starr Sapphire -- Blue Starr Sapphire, and the Young Man who is in love with the Goddess
- Artemis of Earth, who secretly hopes for an "alien abduction" while sitting in an ancient audience, and Rom, from the Blue Planet, who performs the ceremony of She Who Sits on the Moon
- Jason, the Cosmic Dancer (Jason the Cosmonaut), who's afraid to go backstage, and Phoebe, Greek Goddess and extraterrestrial being -- a wandering icy Moon of Saturn and the Grandmother of Artemis...
JASON: Must you fly away again?
PHOEBE: It's what we do...
The Experimental Life Forms Lab
- Xiter and Zylort in odd space suits direct the action on a small but bustling planet, before it is too late -- in the famous Experimental Life Forms Lab. But Jolinay finds them just the same.
The Children, a Boy and Girl Child; Fairy Children...sing to the Trees and pursue a Goddess who sits on the Moon singing of Blue Rivers of Stars.
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The Dedication
"Parallel Universe"
THE DEDICATION
For Program and Lobby
"Music begins the creation of new realities everyday.
"It carries, in those delicate streams of sound, the emotional picture codes that minds born of unimaginable hopes can translate into remarkably vivid joys and precious dawns. A sunset that no one suspected but no one can forget. We know without thought that it is possible -- and nearby -- and that keeps us going.
"We do not know for sure what makes us human and hope secretly for extraterrestrial deliverance of some kind -- hoping that there is glory in us somewhere, and longing to mate with other kinds of glory wherever it might be hiding from us somewhere in the universe. You cannot convince us, no matter what you say, that it is not real, that it is not there. And in a moment of music, a note when time stops, we are sure that the shadowy beings who find us in our fantasies are not accidents -- that the people that we seem to be there are not unknown, are not unreal, and are not lonely.
"We don’t know who joins us here. We don’t know where we go at night. We don’t know who we are when we go there. We don’t know what we leave behind. We don’t know what we take with us – or who follows us home. We do not yet know the space ships of our minds. But suspect that they know us.
"Parallel Universe is dedicated to you and your soulmates…it is for those who like to fly without a net, land without a parachute, love on the edge of reality, and sing without knowing who will answer our call for glory…"
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Acknowledgements
There are hundreds of acknowledgements and references for work such as this, a small book in itself, to express such gratitude. So to begin:
To all from whom I have learned so much (with both laughter and tears), and especially to my patient mentors, the Professor and Oron - a most profound and humble
THANK YOU,
which could never be big enough.
You know who you are, and I will get my thanks to you wherever you are... :).
Sandra Hudlow Rodman
Redmond Washington
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