Bluecoats 2022 narrator script

[denverjohn]

Please give the English translation for the last several years of Blue Devils narration.

[mfrontz]

2 hours ago, scheherazadesghost said:

This show is what I dreamed drum corps could be. After lots of time spent making abstract performance art, this show fits right into my aesthetic. Don't tell me what to think, present a collage of ideas and let me put it together myself. My wildly-different interpretations shouldn't be beholden to the designers or creators. Good works of any artform do that.

I don't know about abstract performance art, but I've been saying something like this for years, about drum corps and other things: Don't tell me how to feel or what to think - show me what you have and move me. That's what the best drum corps shows do. And it seems as if most of the corps this year have delivered. For a while at the end of last decade it seemed like some drum corps had forgotten how to send a message without manipulative techniques. 

I would love to see a corps come out some year without a show title, without a show explanation, without telling me at all what to think and feel, and simply take me somewhere. This can be done, and it doesn't mean eschewing narration completely. It means enough clarity in the design, enough energy in the performance, and enough trust in the audience to make extraneous words unnecessary. 

[scheherazadesghost]

9 minutes ago, mfrontz said:

I would love to see a corps come out some year without a show title, without a show explanation, without telling me at all what to think and feel, and simply take me somewhere.

Now we're cooking with gas.

And, elders (I say respectfully!), isn't this what shows were at one point?

[Mello Dude]

17 minutes ago, mfrontz said:

I don't know about abstract performance art, but I've been saying something like this for years, about drum corps and other things: Don't tell me how to feel or what to think - show me what you have and move me. That's what the best drum corps shows do. And it seems as if most of the corps this year have delivered. For a while at the end of last decade it seemed like some drum corps had forgotten how to send a message without manipulative techniques. 

I would love to see a corps come out some year without a show title, without a show explanation, without telling me at all what to think and feel, and simply take me somewhere. This can be done, and it doesn't mean eschewing narration completely. It means enough clarity in the design, enough energy in the performance, and enough trust in the audience to make extraneous words unnecessary. 

I give you Phantom Regiment.

[MikeRapp]

23 hours ago, NakedEye said:

One of my favorite parts of this whole thing is the “ I’ll just call him Lou now.” It always makes me smile because it sells the entire story as a guy trying to remember his dream as he describes it to someone else. I’m looking forward to them getting the ending right as those words are important, and they weren’t coming through clearly yet, other than something about a dragon.

It’s also a clear allusion to Bloo.

[Jurassic Lancer]

On 7/24/2022 at 6:25 PM, CrownBariDad said:

Maybe 3rd time's the charm -- who is doing the narration? (Forgive my senior moment if it's obvious to everyone but me.)

I think it’s Scott Chandler.

[Jurassic Lancer]

14 hours ago, Zanjero said:

Still curious as to why they changed from Joe Walsh to Lou Reed.
I would rather take this trip with Walsh.

 

OK … how about this … They aren’t Blooing, they’re Louing!

[drumcorpsfever]

On 7/24/2022 at 7:24 PM, craiga said:

People keep asking about about who the narrator is for Bloo, Crown. Cadets.  I am surprised that these corps are using real people for these.....since there are tons of computer generated options out there.....Boston's Don Quixote, Wicked Games, SOS, ZOOM etc. 

Each time I hear Crown’s narrator, I think of Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast!