Gleeful defiance. Feral wit.
But what is your dream, your deep down dream that is more fantasy than anything else? Your chimera with almost no chance of coming true but the almost haunts you? That you could be discovered, whilst walking down the street, and made a famous actress on a hot new daytime soap? That air-reverses will enter your regular, consistent repertoire? Steph Gilmore will see you landing all those air-reverses and fall madly in love?
Mine, that I’ve harbored for a few years now, is to turn the award-nominated book detailing life on Oahu’s North Shore Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell into a Broadway, Off-Broadway or even Off-Off-Broadway musical.
The opening number, featuring many ukuleles and steel guitars, swells as the lights dim. The scent of coconut and rot sprayed into the audience from hidden chambers. Curtains open to a rococo set design featuring palm trees, passion fruit bushes, a large Volcom Stone. Think Baz Luhrmann in Strictly Ballroom.
Thunder rattles the auditorium but… that’s not thunder it’s… crashing waves. It’s…
…The Pipeline.
Billabong’s vice-president of marketing Graham Stapelberg can now be seen lurking in the corner, stage left, behind one of the passion fruit bushes. Shifty eyes. Nervous. He begins to dance a very nervous dance. Twitchy. Modern.
Pipeline’s thunder becomes drum and bass techno track and Graham Stapelberg continues gyrating, nervous, scared. Think Bob Fosse.
And that’s as far as I’ve gotten.
I have no experience in musical theater other than once being married to a musical theater actress. No playwright, songwrite, choreography ability but I shared by dream, anyhow, with David Lee Scales today.
He mocked it.
We also chatted about which current tour surfer will be our world’s Aaron Hernandez.
Who do you think?
And even though David Lee Scales mocked my dream, do you believe it is remotely possible? That we might someday see actors playing Eddie Rothman, John John Florence, Kolohe Andino and Dave Prodan dancing, singing, expressing the passion of Da North Shore?
Do you know any playwright/songwrite/choreographer?
I’ll cut you in on the box office.
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Chas you may be surprised who I know but I’ll cut straight to the $.
I appreciate talented writers are often offended at any criticism but as your not talented I can lay it out raw.
Your idea is crap.
The only way real money is going to be made is via a Hollywood Gidget rides again sequel.
The script is actually quite good!
I suggest you and everyother surf reporter/ surf media/surf blogger forward me your resume.
Always looking for core ppl to make sandwiches on set and you may learn how the professional side of entertainment works?
some of your best work
Your posters are gonna look great!…
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“north shore” the musical needs to happen.
Can Eddie Rothman dance AND sing? So much talent in one human.
T heyre gonna make the movie.
Congrats
Off Brahway?
I can already tell…. you belong on the creative team.
This podcast was your baste one yet.
But who will play Chas? I’m thinking Richard E Grant might pull it off…
I see it….
Ashton would do it. he will do anything to get a bit of spot light.
nobody could do it better than Ed Sheeran , he s got the right look and boy can the guy sing!
Chas is a bit withnail. Good call.
I think you be better suited to telling the story through an interpretive dance routine. only after that can you embark on a spoken word tour. as they said in field of dreams. “if you build it, VAL’s will come”