The Story

The time is the future, in a place that was once called Earth. Globalisation is complete! Everywhere, the kids watch the same movies, wear the same fashions and think the same thoughts. It’s a safe, happy, Ga Ga world. Unless you’re a rebel. Unless you want to Rock. On Planet Mall all the musical instruments are banned. The Company Computers generate tunes and everybody downloads them. It is an age of Boy Bands and of Girl Bands. Of Boy and Girl Bands. Of Girl Bands with a couple of boys in them that look like girls anyway. Nothing is left to chance, hits are scheduled years in advance.

Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality. But Resistance is growing. Underneath the gleaming cities, down in the lower depths live the Bohemians. Rebels who believe that there was once a Golden Age when the kids formed their own bands and write their own songs. They call that time, The Rhapsody.

Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see. Legend persists that somewhere on Planet Mall instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock. The Bohemians need a hero to find this axe and draw it from stone. Is the one who calls himself Galileo that man?

He’s just a poor boy. From a poor family. But the Ga Ga Cops are also looking for Galileo and if they get him first they will surely drag him before the Killer Queen and consign him to Oblivion across the Seven Seas of Rhye. Who is Galileo? Where is the Hairy One’s lost axe? Where is the place of living rock?


Anyway the wind blows.

Facts And Figures

The show features 32 of Queen’s greatest hits, took six years to develop and cost £7.5million pounds.

An average of 600,000 WE WILL ROCK YOU tickets are sold every year.

So far there have been over 2,200 performances in the UK and 2,200 standing ovations!

It is estimated the show has now been seen across the world by an audience of more than 6 million people.

As an indication of the wide audience the show attracts, the purchaser of the 1 millionth ticket in London on October 2006 was a 61-year-old grandmother who was buying a ticket to treat her 4-year-old great grandson to see the show.

In August 2005 the show officially became the longest running musical to play at The Dominion, one of the West End’s biggest theatres.

WE WILL ROCK YOU involves more than £1million worth of LED screens, especially shipped from Hong Kong to feature in the production’s unique set.

WE WILL ROCK YOU’s production and set design is the most expensive and dynamic set ever seen in London theatre.

The set designers were also behind some of the biggest of the world’s greatest live acts including Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones and U2.
 

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