Ignoring the fact that there is already a The Blue Castle musical as @batrachised pointed out, I have been plotting my own:
The show opens to the stage bathed in blue light and Valancy dancing with a shadowy figure (he’s present but not singing.) Valancy is singing a love song - the ‘Blue Castle’ melody: it’s whimsical, playful, romantic - slightly over the top. The rest of the company surrounds the stage looking on adoringly singing back up vocals. The song ends with Valancy spinning, spinning, spinning and collapsing into her bed - the lights dim.
The lights raise seconds later to an unnatural yellow/grey/sepia hue. The set is hideous and garish. Valancy has had a quick costume change from her blue ball gown into her awful nightdress. She then goes on to sing a song introducing the ‘Doss’ melody - a melancholic, haunting, repetitive tune. As the song progresses, the scenery is seamlessly shifting in the background: she’s looking in the mirror, changing, fixing her hair, the bed rolls off stage and the kitchen table rolls in, Mrs. Stirling and Cousin Sickles enter with the kitchen scenery (when they speak/sing - chord dissonance) they’re eating breakfast, they stand and the table rolls out and sitting room rolls in and now they’re piecing a quilt.
During the spoken sections, the Doss melody trots softly along in the background except when Valancy sneaks off to her bedroom to read: she monologues passages of Foster’s while the Blue Castle melody tinkles in the background. The same happens when she asks to go to the library.
Each time the Blue Castle melody plays, it’s recognizable but also slightly varied (because nothing about the blue castle is boring and repetitive)
[Still fleshing this in between part out]
Dr. Trent’s letter (taking some extra creative liberties here and pretending she reads the letter directly before bed.)- Valancy will be seated in her nightgown holding the letter and begin the Doss melody but then 30 second in breaks from it, changing the tune, standing, dropping the letter and taking up the entire stage as she belts about her life so far and her impending death. She’ll be letting down her hair (literally), ripping the neck of her high collared gown, unbuttoning the cuffs and bunching the sleeves up to her elbows. (the lighting shifts from the sepia to a more natural lighting.) the Dust Pile song - needs a big ending: Valancy standing in the middle of the stage with arms spread wide, company behind her bolstering her.
The Stirling Clan, is the comic relief: they look horribly uptight and rigid. The Stirling Clan tune is pretentious to the point of being campy. The dinner party is their big song and covers the first half of the dinner before Valancy starts speaking.
In addition, the Stirling Clan song has a handful of small reprises - including after Valancy takes the job at Roaring Abel’s -> Mrs. Stirling draped across a chaise, as the family surrounds her, pecking her with questions, getting closer and closer to the chaise (sufficiently so) as she tells the story. In the middle of the song Mrs. Stirling gets defensive and stands, everyone takes a step back, and then she dramatically re-collapse onto the chaise.
Uncle Benjamin/ Uncle James/ Uncle Wellington are constantly jockeying to be the lead voice in these songs: cutting each other off and singing over the female voices.
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I was watching the Drum Corps International finals with some friends last night and all around there were some great shows, my personal favorites were Carolina Crowns-“Promethean”, Phantom Regiment-“Mynd”, Troopers-“Dance With the Devil” and, Mandarins-“Vieux Carré”
BUT
Blue Devils-“The Romantics” had music from howls moving castle soooo
(I would recommend looking all of these up on YouTube)
((+the Blue Devils-“Bust” was super cool to see as they are located really close to where I grew up up, and I even had some friends march with them this year!!!))
I quoted the title of this song during the Blue Castle Book Club in the chapter where Valancy defends Barney's at a family gathering--an act she herself doesn't understand. (Because she is in love, geddit.) But listening to it, the song does fit Valancy and Barney, I think.
And at last I am finished with The Blue Castle. I LOVED IT.
My dear Valancy is HAPPY. She deserves all the love and happiness in the world. And to think how miserable she was in the beginning...!
"Valancy smiled through her tears. She was so happy that her happiness terrified her. But, despite the delights before her—‘the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome’—lure of the ageless Nile—glamour of the Riviera—mosque and palace and minaret—she knew perfectly well that no spot or place or home in the world could ever possess the sorcery of her Blue Castle."