In the past post, I discussed people breaking out into song and dance in places outside the theater – from the general hospital to even Disneyland. In New York, where I saw a genuine Broadway show (Beauty and the Beast, to be exact), there’s a recent epidemic not pertaining to the swine flu pandemic of the here and now – there’s a spontaneous musical popping up at the mall or at a Walmart!

This theatrical group, which specializes in guerrilla musical theater, is called “Break Out In Song,” and the numbers the amateurs perform (or are they?) are no rip-offs of Improv Everywhere’s Food Court Musical! Those hits are pure Broadway gems: “Consider Yourself” from Oliver on Times Square, “Don’t Rain on My Parade” from Funny Girl at South Street Seaport, the theme from Anything Goes on the Intrepid, and “If My Friends Could See Me Now” from Sweet Charity at the Time Warner Center! If I were to go back to my birthplace of Paterson, life would most definitely be a musical, but not now, since I’m in college. There’s no flashy costuming, no leotardlike attire, and no glitzy zoot suits – just ordinary clothes and some fantastic talent and choreography to make viral marketing great!

Let me reiterate that I’m writing a spontaneous musical myself, not only because of the videos, because I have seen a barrage of shows at various theme parks like Walt Disney World, a Broadway musical, and the Radio City Spectacular (just to name a few), have a plethora of friends on Facebook (I became a fan of the guerrilla  musical theater group’s page.) who write for the theater, including a few very famous ones, and have acted in a few school musicals myself! The musical will be about people misunderstanding the puzzle of autism, and the plot of the number would be centered around a typical autism meltdown/tantrum, with the people wanting the mother to spank him. As soon as I obtain the $328-ish Sibelius, this musical of mine would take shape. Right now, I’m working on the libretto and lyrics.

If you want to see the spontaneous musical numbers, please, please visit www.breakoutinsong.com and tell me what you think!!

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