What Are Dreams Made Of?
by Lisa Sniderman
A brilliantly inventive award-winning musical combining a compelling story, colorful offbeat characters and infectious songs intended for young adult audiences who enjoy Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Twilight.
Logline: In the magical kingdom of Wonderhaven, Aoede the Muse of Song is plagued with a terrible, haunting dream, and children are spirited away by a Siren. Aoede must explore realms of darkness and light...
A brilliantly inventive award-winning musical combining a compelling story, colorful offbeat characters and infectious songs intended for young adult audiences who enjoy Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Twilight.
Logline: In the magical kingdom of Wonderhaven, Aoede the Muse of Song is plagued with a terrible, haunting dream, and children are spirited away by a Siren. Aoede must explore realms of darkness and light, overland and underworld, confront magical fairies, goblins and dream gods, and struggle to get to the heart of her dream.
What Are Dreams Made Of?
Book and lyrics by Lisa Sniderman
Music by Lisa Sniderman/Aoede and Scrote
Based on “What Are Dreams Made Of?” (a musical audiobook story)
By Lisa Sniderman/Aoede and Scrote
http://whataredreamsmadeof.com
A brilliantly inventive award-winning musical combining a compelling story, colorful offbeat characters and infectious songs intended for young adult audiences who enjoy Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Twilight. In the magical kingdom of Wonderhaven, Aoede the Muse of Song is plagued with a terrible, haunting dream, and children are spirited away by a Siren. Aoede must explore realms of darkness and light, overland and underworld, confront magical fairies, goblins and dream gods, and struggle to get to the heart of her dream.
Aoede shares her nyxmare with Luk, her house goblin, who insists she find Morpheus the Dream God. In the Department of Dreams (DOD) overland, Aoede doesn’t find Morpheus, but meets Aislin, a fairy on probation. She tells Aislin her nyxmare, and Aislin agrees to help her thinking it can get her off probation if she solves the case. Aislin suggests a Siren is what Aoede keeps seeing in her dream, luring the children perhaps to the underworld, to do her bidding. Aislin says they need the help of Morpheus-leader of the Dream Gods. Aoede meets Morpheus and finds out Phobetor, his brother, has gone missing. Aoede asks Morpheus if she can return with him to the underworld to find out more about her nyxmare and find the missing children.
Inside the Land of Dreams underworld, Morpheus and Aoede encounter Phantasos (Morpheus's other brother) and the Bad Seeds, a group of misfits that work for and serve Phobetor. Aoede discovers that she is the white witch/Siren and dreads the dark reflection of herself. Aoede and Morpheus overhear the Bad Seeds discuss a secret plot by the Goblin Kings to build a Darkhaven and to lure and use the children as labor, and discover Phantasos was also part of this plot. Aoede learns that the Siren was stealing the children's dream seeds. Over the course of the story, the witch takes a stronger and stronger hold on Aoede. She loses all sense of self, spirals downward and finally becomes the Siren-unable to speak, only sing her Siren song.
Aoede finds the missing children and stolen dream seeds, but is captured by the Goblins. The Bad Seeds appear, and Phobetor shows up in his true form. By looking at him directly, the Bad Seeds disappear. Phobetor shares how he was put to sleep by a potion the Bad Seeds slipped into his Chocolate Nectar and kept by the Goblin Kings in the Kallikantzaros Caves. Aoede and Luk return to the DOD, and the three Dream Gods confront the Goblin Kings, demanding Darkhaven not be built.
It isn’t until Aoede confronts what's at the heart of her dream that her nyxmare stops and the witch leaves. Aoede must acknowledge what she has repressed and suppressed: that the there is both dark-witch and light-muse inside her.
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