"Transition Town: The Musical" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> looking for those final crowd-funding pledges

The project to create a musical around the whole caboodle called 'the transition town movement' might be considered a little ... mad, if not ... impossible, but it's gaining momentum, as this blog reported last month
Futures Forum: "Transition Town: The Musical"

... when there were pledges for crowd-funding of less than £1000. 

And now, there are pledges of over £8000 - but "This project will only be funded if at least £10,000 is pledged by Sat, Feb 14 2015 12:46 PM +00:00."

So, if you'd like to contribute to this project, go to the Kickstarter pages:
Transition Town : The Musical » Back this project — Kickstarter

And here's an updated, latest, here-and-now look at the website, with a little preview of things to come, in the shape of a teaser:

Transition Town : The Musical

by Chloe Uden

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This project will only be funded if at least £10,000 is pledged by Sat, Feb 14 2015 12:46 PM +00:00.

The plan is to make a joyous musical show about dreamers & doers ..

.... About this project

Transition Town – The Musical is the working title for a sparkling new musical to be written by Matt Harvey and Thomas Hewitt Jones, the team behind Rumpelstiltskin, this year’s hit Christmas show at The Egg Theatre, Bath. (Musical extract below)

 We want to communicate the breadth and ambition of the Transition movement – to show that resistance is fertile, a half-full glass can be rose-tinted and, crucially, that if you reach for the stars you might just get to the pub.

How can we possibly hope to do justice to such a diverse, ambitious worldwide movement in a musical? How can we not misrepresent it? The answer is: we’re not sure – but we intend to misrepresent it as accurately as we possibly can. We believe a musical is a great way to celebrate the Transition movement as, quite literally, something worth making a song and dance about.

We don’t yet know the particulars of our story – the Transition movement is alive with stories – the plan is to weave a witty, warm-hearted tale of dreamers and do-ers addressing the practical, emotional and philosophical questions thrown up by climate change and oil dependency. They’ll forge friendships, fall out, make-up, and do it all to catchy tunes and big dance numbers. We want to hear generational sing-offs, a Hedge Fund chorus, meet a SWIMBY* protest group, and create a joyous, uplifting musical that brings a bit of Broadway to raised beds everywhere.

Rob Hopkins, co-founder of Transition Network, gardener, writer, blogger, author of 'The Power of Just Doing Stuff', father and scintillating public speaker....

Transition Town : The Musical by Chloe Uden — Kickstarter

See also:
Futures Forum: Rob Hopkins: "founder of the Transition movement, a radically hopeful and community-driven approach to creating societies independent of fossil fuel."
Futures Forum: Climate Week in Sidmouth ... Rob Hopkins and the Atmos Project ... Thursday 4th March at 1pm
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