What's SuperHoot ? "Superhoot" is a brand name for a collection of educational materials created for today's academies of learning. With connectivity to all statewide schools further linked with their state university system, 'Superhoot' projects focus on collaboration within art disciplines. Additional projects include creating a similar e-book for humanities, science, history, philosophy and teacher education in these fields of studies.

As the basis of collaborative projects in formal academia settings as well as out into the community arts organizations too, most of UYM / EMG focuses on musical studies in preparation for further studies and professional development through collegiate studies. Included here are three collaborative projects that bring music together with theatre, dance and fine art; there's a musical theatre book, a script for a theatrical play and a trailer idea for making a movie.

"SuperHoot The Dance Musical." The Superhoot musical is the love story of Veronica and Joey, centered on the delicate balance between finding success in show business terms and finding one's own artistic voice of expression, and its eventual success by merging into mainstream showbiz. The cast includes; Veronica and Joey, four pairs of dancers and the band. Their story goes like this.

Super diva Veronica is a diva super singer who imitates her way to brilliant stardom by impersonating the big stars of Americana musics. Joey is a true home grown Americana country blues rocker styled natural born storyteller who just can't seem to get any traction for his own songs on the radio. They of course, are in love, well he is anyway, with Veronica. Veronica not so much ... as Joey is 'just another' up and coming artist in the biz, yet he knows he will make it, and Veronica can see it too, but there's issues and complications ... of course :)

Production. In the original script, Ms Veronica stars first as Tina Turner doing "Proud Mary", then as Zepplin's Robert Plant covering 'Whole Lotta' Love", then Mick Jagger with "Satisfaction", then Melissa Manchester covering "It's Gonna Take A Lot Of Love." Veronica uses wigs and costumes to cover the look while the songs chosen are just too iconic now not for most folks to know (or learn them here if need be).

Author's note. All of the stars and songs can be chosen by each cast and crew to make it their own production. The script that's include will pull a show together but can be just an outline too, embellished by each production team as their own collective interests shape the final creative collaborations.

Joey sings his own 'R & B' styled blues folk rock gems, telling important stories of Americana life that we can all share in spirit through experience; of America's stories compiled through nearly almost 20 generations now of peoples coming together for freedom from all over the world. Joey's is just genuinely a nice person, raised right, knows of humbleness and respect, is the real deal and what showbiz loves and needs; in sincerity, a person who has worked a 'gift' to become a musical artist, creating songs that brings people together from all walks of life, to share and enjoy together.

And as our story unfolds, their songs and successes go back and forth as they sing their songs. And with a few surprises and lots of songs, whose themes help develop Veronica's own maturing in love, Joey finally gets a hit song on the radio that brings them to a loving and happy new beginning for an enduring future together.

Author's note (2). Some of Joey's songs are included in this e-book, as original songs written by the author.

Please write any questions or for more details about producing this fun musical with your own academic program and community of artists.

"Superhoot / "Scene Billy." "Scene Billy" is written as a young adult theatrical production in two acts and now under a revision write available January 1, 2027. It is a written as a romantic comedy by combining historical fact with creative fiction and the magics of first love. Its facts include the writing and production of Shakespeare's own plays paired with the writing of the King James Bible and includes other historical events in London and the world circa the 1600's. The fiction is created by placing 'Billy' (Shakespeare) as the 'editor in chief' for the group of ministers that created King James Bible, started in 1604 and published in 1612. These dates correspond with Shakespeare's writing and producing ten plays at the Globe Theatre in London.

"Scene Billy" the play, is set during this recorded span of eight years of history and employs themes from actual events; of a new King's first challenges in governing a newly united country then year by year as events unfold; assassination, rebellion, rule by divine right, politics, Jamestown in America, and the joys and tragedies of life.

The main themes of each play that Billy wrote during these years become the basis of the discussions of the Ministers writing the Bible, so there's no real references to the Bible, just the central ideals of what makes good people, as shared across all of the good books from each of the major religions of the times.

Written as a sort of 'triptych', the play motors its way through three main scenes; the King James and councilor Francis Bacon, Billy with his love interest muse Maggie and her niece Shine an aspiring playwrite, who collaborate in writing Billy's plays, and Billy with the Ministers, who are creating the new 'Good Book.'

Other characters. The narrative / script develops these topics through conversations between King James and chief counselor Sir Francis Bacon, with Billy; his muse 'Mags' and her niece 'Shine', and Billy with the church ministers. There's Billy's best friend 'BMac', who is a time traveler, and a second 'Billy', for pure confusion, named Billy Shields, a sailor who sailed with Drake at Gravelines and is now the king's butler and one of Billy's best friends in London. And there's Mr. Taylor and his friend, 'Bozo, who together run the Globe Theatre for Billy and there's Batty, a long passed yet ever cherished childhood pet of Billy's whose wisdom and friendship continues to advise Billy now from within the corpus of a stuffed Raven in Billy's studio.

30 scenes. There's ten main topics, one for each year between 1603 and 1613, each a mix of the history of the day with the topic / theme of the plays Shakespeare wrote that year. Our story concludes with the accidental fire that destroys the original Globe Theatre. Each of the ten themes are foundationed on embracing principles for living to insure each person and family a long and happy, productive life in a free society, shaped and governed by mutually agreed moral tenets commonly found in all of the 'good books' of our 'e pluribus unum', our Americana foundational motto of ... 'out of many, one.'

'Workshop' a play. This story narrative can be used to 'workshop a play' into a writing project for students to create their own production. Students can research these historical events and create their own script, and express themselves on these themes and topics as it relates to their own day to day lives and experiences, their search, questioning and development of their own views of life, bouncing and debating ideas off one another, reasoning out their beliefs and philosophies and trials and tribulations of love in today's modern world.

Improvisation workshop. An improv 'workshop' option here is to have actors improvise dialogue while discussing these play themes and historical topics while role playing these historical characters and record the session, as a voice message on a phone, then go back and transcribe the session and develop your own script.

"Superhoot The Movie." "SuperHoot The Movie" is really just a million scenes of all sorts of folks from all walks of life each getting ready for a giant party, all putting on their 'Sunday best', and that includes the 'Prez of Us-All' and their First lady, who's is just getting ready for his / her gig like everyone else but ... is also preparing to give the keynote speech at the party, more a big banquet with dining, a band, dancing, a gala celebration on a New Year's Eve. And along the way, each of the scenes tells a wee bit of the personal struggles of the folks, so collectively the myriad of problems regular folks face day to day when simply trying to do the right thing for their families, friends and communities in their own individual pursuit of the Americana ideal; freedom for all to be their best.

While the 'speech' has been well publicized, no one but the President knows what it is about. And that by its conclusion, its message will reverberate to change the whole world as we know it and reminds us of just how important honest leadership is in civilized free societies. Please write any questions or for more details about producing this fun movie with your own community of artists to the author.

"Superhoot / "FoneZombees"

In today's modern world of portable phones, its easy to become a bit tethered to the thing. "The FoneZombees" are a musical group comprised of singers, musicians and dancers, techs, who put on shows to tell their stories. The "FoneZombees" music is created with a satirical riff for the hook's theme words, paired with spoken word poetry over a vamp and chord changes to be determined. This simple and repeated format encourages each participant a turn at the mic in a setting that's comfortable, so to tell their story to create a song.

"Superhoot Jam Band"

For learners who are here to study music there's suggestions for starting a jam band. For there's no better way to really learn about anything really, as to try and teach our ideas and knowledge to others. There's a ton of music in this text, all sorts of songs, musical forms to write songs, jam loops and grooves to learn and teach the band forming up. Depending on circumstances, jambands can form up online too, to start, and the interested artists who collaborate can figure their own thing out from there. Cool ?

The superhoot themes / riff for kids. The original SuperHoot riff, written for kids, it's a theme for whatever music is needed. Songs, intermission musics, break tune, motif for a character, just a 'leitmotif' as the classical cats would say, a couple of notes to spark off into song.