Show Synopsis:
High school students on Long Island face various challenges and tests of friendships while they work towards winning St. Anne?s Battle of the Bands.
Character:
Lisa, a teenage girl who wants to fit in and wants somebody to notice her for once; insecure and nervous but genuine.
Song Context:
Lisa has dyed her hair blue in a spur-of-the-moment fit of inspiration and boredom, and now she?s imagining what her future will be like with blue hair instead of her old boring hair.
Fun Facts:
1. This musical was based on creator Joe Iconis?s experience musical directing a production of high school production of The Wiz and talking to the kids in the pit band about their garage bands, their connections, and their relationships.
2. In an interview with the LA-based website Neon Tommy, Iconis said that this musical should ?feel current and timeless, I?ve always felt like it didn?t want to be set in a particular year, I felt like it should always feel like now, and should always feel like someone who is twenty years older than me could look at it and be like, ?Oh, this kinda feels like when I was kid,? I feel like it doesn?t ever want to be specifically set in a time, so that was a very conscious thing.?
3. Iconis told BroadwayWorld.com in an interview that he felt that all of the characters in the show, including Lisa, were based at least a little bit on himself.
I'm bored, I'm awesome, it's almost one. ?
The Internet's down and my homework's done
?And I'm sick of brown and it looks like fun.?
So I'm gonna dye my hair blue.
??I'm independent, I'm totally rad.?
Gonna dye my hair, gonna make Chris mad, ?
And he'll make a snotty face and I'll say,
'You're not my dad.' ?
No, I'm gonna do what I want to
?And I'm gonna dye my hair blue.??
And it's gonna look like wonderful
super fantastic coolness remarkable,
?Wonderful super fantastic coolness remarkable,?Wonderful super fantastic coolness remarkable?
And blue. ??
I bet John's gonna love it, I bet he'll say,
?'Man, I used to have blue hair back in the day.' ?
And I'll pretend I didn't know that,
I'll be all, 'no way. ?No, I didn't know, didn't have a clue, when I went and dyed by hair blue. ?
You had nothing, had nothing to do
?With why I dyed my hair blue.' ??
Now, I'm not one of those girls
who does things for guys. ?
Screw their compliments, I know they're all lies. ?
I put blue in my hair 'cause I want blue there.?
Don't care what they say back at school. ?
But if John says he likes it, that's like whatever, ?
You know it's like?cool. ??
But if he does, ?I'll be wonderful super
fantastic coolness remarkable ?
Wonderful super fantastic coolness? he makes me feel ?Wonderful super fantastic coolness
remarkable and blue.
??I'm not the brightest. ?I'm not the most colorful.?
I'm a really bad speller. ?
I blend in, everyone always forgets my name.
?I hide my box of Barbies
?In a cabinet underneath my TV.
?I'm not the coolest,? But pretty soon my hair will be.