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... not just any old hoot, but a ...

! SuperHoot !

~ creating art together to strengthen community ~

~ a fine arts trifecta of music, theatre and dance ~

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What's SuperHoot ? "Superhoot" is a brand. It includes three art formats for bringing forth its message of community and a platform for all artists of all stripes to prticipate, to share their wares in community. Initiated in the Spring of 2022, Superhoot is a master plan for those in need of ideas for getting their developing skills and knowledge into making music and becoming a part of producing shows; music, theatre, dance, whatever. Here's our new logo created by Lela of Homer.

And ideally, as we're e-book based, using everyone's own social media for folks to tie into the Alaskan web community for sharing ideas and helping one another to produce their meaningful art together.

"Helping others is an Alaskan tradition."
Alaska ~ Elmer Rasmuson

"SuperHoot The Musical"

The Superhoot musical is a love story centered on the balance between finding success in show business terms and finding one's own art voice success, and merging it into mainstream showbiz. The story goes like this.

Super diva Veronica is a diva super singer who imitates her way to stardom by impersonating the big stars of Americana musics. Joey is a true country blues rocker styled natural who just can't seem to get any traction for his own songs. 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 will make it, and Veronica can see it too, but ...

In the original production script Ms Veronica stars first as Tina Turner doing "Proud Mary", then as Zepplin's Robert Plant covering 'Whole Lotta' Love", then maybe Mick Jagger with "Satisfaction", then Melissa Etheridge covering "It's Gonna Take A Lot Of Love." Veronica uses wigs to cover the look, while the star / song's cover are just too iconic now not to know and love.

Joey sings his own 'R & B' blues gems, telling important, and current stories, of American life that all can share, in the historical Americana musical colors that have carried all of America's stories now through nearly almost 20 generations 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 (ideal) and what showbiz too needs from time to time; just an entity who's stars have all aligned, showing us all that through a sentient personality that by creating and sharing art together, we can continually discover better ways to live together.

And as our story unfolds, with a few surprises and lots of songs whose themes build Veronica's own maturing in love, Joey gets a hit song on the radio that brings them to a loving, happy ending. Please write any questions or for more details about producing this fun musical with your own community of artists.

"Superhoot / "Scene Billy"

"Scene Billy" is written as a young adult theatrical production in two acts. It is a work of comedy combining historical fact with creative fiction. Our facts include the writing and production of Shakespeare's own plays and events in London circa 1600. The fiction is created by placing 'Billy' 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" is set during this recorded history and employs themes from actual events; a new King's of challenges in governing a newly united country, the themes of each play that Billy wrote, and developing these themes into the dialogue of Billy working with the ministers while editing to completion and publication this new "Good Book", through this eight year window.

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 identity confusion), Billy Shields, a sailor who sailed with Drake. There's 'Bozo the Bear' and Mr. Taylor, and Batty, a stuffed Raven.

There's eleven topics, and their three part development is foundationed on embracing principles that help to insure each person a happy, productive life in a free society, shaped and governed by mutually agreed moral tenets commonly found in all the 'good books' throughout all of our recorded history.

'Workshop' a play. This narrative can be used to 'workshop a play' into writing project. Students can together research these historical events and create their own play, and express themselves on these themes and topics as it relates to their own day to day lives, their questioning and development of their own views of life, bouncing and debating ideas off one another, reasoning out their beliefs and philosophies.

Improvisation workshop. An improv 'workshop' option here is to have actors improvise dialogue while discussing these themes / 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.

 

 

"Even one moment on stage is a glacier of comprehension, that's where the work is. And it's as fascinating to study as any other science."

wiki ~ William Hurt

from NYTimes obit, 3/13/2022

"Superhoot The Movie"

"SuperHoot The Movie" is really just a million scenes of all sorts of folks each getting ready for a giant party, all putting on their 'Sunday best', that includes the 'Prez of Us-All' 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.

The 'speech' has been well publicized, 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, it's 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 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. Please write any questions or for more details about putting together a band with your own community of artists to:

a 'satirical riff'

"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 ? Please write any questions or for more details about putting together a jam band with your own community of artists to:

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.

wiki ~ leitmotif

kid's theme

the hope within
here my story
in 'E' minor
country blues
"What I like is to feel needed, and I like to share with people. It makes me feel connected to the world."
wiki ~ Lea Seydoux

 

Please write any questions, or for more details, about these SuperHoot shows.

~ jacmuse@ak.net ~