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The Good Omens Musical Masterpost🎵❤
How it started :)
Some time before 2013: Vicki Larnach, the australian composer and lyricist, read the Good Omens book, imagined figures dancing on stage with brilliant music and thought, ‘Ah, I’m gonna ask Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaiman if I can turn it into a musical.’ and sent an email to the publishers. The next day she got an email saying, ‘We don’t want a musical but Terry’s coming to Australia, so come and say hello and tell us what you got.’
Rob Wilkins came down to meet Vicki and Jim Hare - Vicki's husband and writer - and took them to meet Terry. They spent an hour and a half with them where Terry asked ‘piercing questions’, had tea with them and they showed Terry a song that Vicki wrote (about the Chattering Nuns). Terry said to Rob, ‘Rob, write and email to Neil, “Dear Neil, this is Terry. I’m sitting in front of two hippies from Sydney and they want to make a musical out of Good Omens and I’m tempted to let them do it.”’ which was the best email they ever heard and then Terry said, ‘Okay, you have me curious.’ - it was because of the Nuns song which sounded like the book. ‘I’m gonna give you six months, come back with a first draft libretto and five songs.’
They then sent it to Terry who sent it to Neil. Terry said, ‘I really like it, you’re moving story, you’re doing all the right things, but where’s showstopper, where’s the toe-tapper, you know I need people to go to intermission just snapping their fingers with the song they just can’t get out of their head, and I haven’t heard that.’ - and they realized that they were so busy serving the story they forgot to do the wow-factor, but found it very encouraging from Terry that he wanted to make it better.
They went through the whole book again to find a centrepiece - and they found it when Warlock is growing up and Aziraphale and Crowley are with him, and spent months working just on that one thing and called ‘All Living Things’ [the song at the start of this post :)] which is a line from the book.*’ Terry gave that song to a person he knew and asked him to play it to his wife with no context and when the next day the person said that his wife woke up still singing the song Terry said to Vicki and Jim: ‘Well, that’s what I asked you to do.’
* [“This here’s Brother Slug,” the gardener would tell him, “and this tiny little critter is Sister Potato Weevil. Remember, Warlock, as you walk your way through the highways and byways of life’s rich and fulsome path, to have love and reverence for all living things.” “Nanny says that wivving fings is fit onwy to be gwound under my heels, Mr. Fwancis,” said little Warlock, stroking Brother Slug, and then wiping his hand conscientiously on his Kermit the Frog overall.]
Vicki and Jim got the permission to being adapting it as a musical in 2013.
Vicki and Jim on it a couple of years ‘fumbling about’, took it as far as they could and decided to bring another person into it: Jay-James Moody
In 2015, Jay James-Moody joined the collaboration initially as a dramaturge and directorial eye, eventually evolving into co-book writer. Vicki, James and Jay have continued to evolve through countless more revisions and a number of private development readings with the support, time and talent of numerous wonderful Australian performers testing the material.
In November 2017, the musical was presented in its then-current form and entirety for the first time before an audience of over 500 eager attendees. The cast included Luke Joslin, Lachlan O’Brien, Nancye Hayes, Barry Quin, Brett O’Neill, Lauren McKenna, Nicholas Craddock, Paul Capsis, Rob Johnson, Amy Lehpamer, Debora Krizak, Blake Erickson, Nat Jobe, Ana Maria Belo, Jordan Hare, Bella Thomas, Anthony Abrakmanov and Samson Hyland.
Following a rapturous response to this reading it continued to be refined and developed.
In 2019, ten days before the show came out they did their last presentation, since then they’ve been to London and shown a videotape of that workshop to Neil and Rob which was ‘a pretty heartstopping experience’ but both Neil and Rob were ‘so lovely and very generous with their time’ and they were showing it to them and in the intermission Neil said ‘I wish Terry could have seen this.’ (see here :))
Differences between the musical and the book
The ending of the musical is a bit different, they were worried about it but Neil said, ‘I totally understand, the ending of the TV series is different, because I had something that was book-shaped and I needed to make it TV-shaped. And you had something that was book-shaped and you needed to make it stage-shaped.’
It opens with the burning of Agnes Nutter and Aziraphale and Crowley are introduced there.
Act One ends with them ‘essentially breaking up’ because of a huge argument and they dissolve their friendship, Act Two starts with the first time they meet.
The Future?
What is the future for the musical: in 2021 they said that they need to work on some things and then they hope to do another run, initially in Australia.
There will be a CD of the soundtrack available when the show is produced in it’s full version.
Videos
Vicki, Jim and Jay talking 46min about the musical (this video was shown at the Ineffable Con 3 in 2021 :))
Sizzle Reel 6min
Anathema singing The Perfect Place
Crowley calling Dagon to check on the hellhound
Shadwell and Newt
Aziraphale vanishing Hastur 👀
Links
Webpage
Instagram - a lot of more bts videos and pics :)
How to support?
Subsribe to the instagram page and like and comment that you want the musical on posts :)❤. If you want to be a sponsor or donor, there is contact on their webpage.
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Good Omens Musical you'll always be famous
Og's
#good omens#good omens fanart#ineffable husbands#ineffable husbands fanart#aziracrow#aziracrow fanart#aziraphale and crowley#fan art#my art#musical good omens#good omens musical
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So we got:
Comic Omens
TV Omens
Book Omens
Musical Omens
Radio Omens
#I love the show but I rlly wanna see crossovers with the other versions of eachother#ineffable husbands: now in different flavors#good omens graphic novel#good omens book#good omens musical#good omens the musical#good omens radio drama#good omens radio#and just love for the others in general: like aziraphale in the radio is so bitchy and snarky i love it#also I'm so rooting for the musical because *gestures at my URL*#I need to see more of it than the sizzle reel and other clips#good omens
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i (absolutely do not never have never will i love it) regret ever learning there was a good omens musical made. "All living things" has been on loop in my head for the past 48 hours and im never going to get it out of there again
#good omens#gomens#good omens musical#good omens fandom#aziraphale#crowley#neil gaiman#ineffable husbands#anthony j crowley#aziracrow#all living things#is that even a tag#who cares tho#this musical (or. Well. The few videos that are uploaded on youtube) is absolute madness and i love it
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Moments from the Good Omens musical I can't stop fucking thinking about
The motherfucking metatron
Nanny Ashtoreth looking like THIS
"This little piggy violates virgins" what the fuck guys
Aziraphale dressed as Madame Tracy
The garden of Eden fits are,,,, something (iconic. They're iconic)
This bit of blocking every time Aziraphale says love
Look at this fucker
Like seriously, they touch maybe three times in this entire musical number (the only full song they've made available online) and it's when he says the word love. I'm so normal about this.
Like it's obvious they ran much more with the comedy element of the book than the show did, but every second of the ten minutes or so of material they've released had me laughing like an idiot in my room by myself. I think covid must have fucked them over bad (almost everything is from 2019 plus a few sparse update posts from the last couple months) but I am sooooo crossing my fingers for them to get this well and properly off the ground because it's comedy gold. You can watch it all here.
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Aziraphale is a needy little angel in every universe
#i’ve decided to redraw screenshots from the#good omens musical#but with the show versions#cause why not#good omens#ineffable husbands#crowley#aziraphale#go fanart#michael sheen#david tennant#neil gaiman#my art#killdoesart
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Just a friendly reminder that, THE GOOD OMENS MUSICAL IS A THING THAT EXISTS.
LOOK AT THEMMM AAAGHHHH‼️‼️‼️
#its still in the making though#BUT ALL IVE BEEN ABLE TO FIND#Is actually freaking AMAZING#AAAAAAAA!!!!!#also Crowley is wearing a Guns N' Roses shirt#and i love that sm#good omens#good omens 2#good omens by neil gaiman and Terry Pratchett#good omens neil gaiman terry Pratchett#good omens musical#musical omens#you should totally check out the sizzle reel
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Ineffable Song of the Day 🎵
Fast Car 🏎
You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Any place is better
Starting from zero got nothing to lose
You got a fast carIs it fast enough so you can fly away?
You gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way
#good omens 2#good omens#ineffable husbands#azicrow#aziraphale#crowley#spotify#good omens song#Good omens musical#Good omens song#ineffable playlist#Ineffable song of the day#anthony bridgerton#crowley's bentley#the bentley#Spotify
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other fandoms: drawing their characters in maid outfits
the good omens fandom cackling in the background:
(first image is from good omens the musical, yes there’s a musical, no there is no bootleg or pro recording, yes it’s still in the making and no we don’t have a release date. you can find all living things, and perfect place (two songs) online, and some images on their instagram as well as a sizzle reel on their website) 🫶
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good omens musical?? we already got that, it's 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔 by bo burnham.
#good omens#good omens 2#good omens musical#ineffable husbands#ineffable spouses#crowley#aziraphale#go 2#go#just a hehe haha joke i promise
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I AM LOVING ALL THE CONTENT THAT THE GOOD OMENS MUSICAL HAS PUT OUT. ANATHEMA IS SUCH A BITCH (I LOVE HER) AND CROWLEY IN A MAID OUTFIT?????? ALSO AZIRAPHALE IS SOOOOO CAMP. I REALLY HOPE I GET TO SEE IT ONE DAY
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Hope the musical is moving forward 😊❤. Learn more about the musical here :).
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An art study of Aziraphale from the Good Omens musical
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I just really think good omens the musical Aziraphale who sings "I don't want to go to heaven. Heaven isn't half as good as here." would have some HARSH words for season 2 Aziraphale.
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I love the good omens musical version of Crowley cause he is literally just some guy. Bro is literally wearing a t shirt for 90% of it
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Aziraphale 4 versions
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