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What is BURN The Musical?

The star of this is the morning star, Lucifer or "Iblis" - his name in BURN. How does God’s favorite creation turn bad? Let’s sing about it.

The BURN Musical is the origin story common to the Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) but from the perspective of the villain, the "fallen angel" Iblis or more simply known as "the devil." With heavy inspiration from popular music, from Hip Hop to Boy Bands, this is a concept album that was made to delight listeners looking to hear a witty new perspective on this timeless story that billions of humans believe to be true.

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Draft 2 (newest) PLAYLIST 👇👇👇

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The first draft of Burn The Musical used existing instrumentals from popular music artists, while later drafts are completely original.

Scene by scene

Act I Scene II - Eternal Bliss

After years of many wars, Iblis and his followers, the truest army of God to ever exist, are rewarded with paradise. Pearl towers, big ol' mansions, the whole shebang! But for Iblis, something is missing when unexpected news arrives...

Act I Scene IV - Adam is Naked

The entirety of the inhabitants of paradise, all the angels and all the jinn, gather in Paradise Square for the big reveal. Iblis has been praying about this all night, while Soldier has been waiting eagerly to hear his plan for what to do next ...

Act I Scene VI - Writing on The Walls

After Adam explains reading, he hints at the fact that there are things about the future that he knows because of this ability. The notion that he was left out does not bode well with him...

Act I Scene VII - Bow Down

Iblis composes himself and returns to the demonstration of Adam's intelligence. Adam starts taking shots at Iblis and his inability to read. The congregation is commanded to bow down to Adam, or else...

Act I Scene III - Something Knew

The news of spreads among the jinn and angels in paradise, causing commotion among some. The former soldier known as "soldier" visits Iblis' castle to consult on the issue. The angel of death gets involved...

Act I Scene V - God taught by the pen

The demo continues, explaining to an eager crowd what reading is. Iblis is shaken by the possibilities of what this could mean...

Act I Scene I - After All

Iblis observes Adam from a place he cannot see back and on this earthly world, Iblis can only whisper to humans to enact his influence and fulfil his promise with God - to prove that humans deserve to burn in hell forever.

My favorite rap freestyle was done by Black Thought on a show called Hot 97

In this freestyle, they use the existing instrumental from Mobb Deep’s “The Learning (Burn).”

For the next 10 minutes, Black Thought proceeds to give perhaps the most amazing freestyle ever heard, and it has nothing to do with the original song though the instrumental evokes a certain emotional vibe and really just provides a canvas for the words.

For the first draft of Burn The Musical, I've used existing instrumentals from every genre of music as well as several musicals. They've all been heavily altered, lengthened or shortened, in order to fit the scene. There's dialogue and intermissions that I wrote in entirety.

Have you heard of the 4 chord medley? Something I learned playing guitar.. there is a common progression of 4 chords that are used in tons of songs. So what I'm saying is a lot of music we think is unique is actually using similar chords as other existing music. "All the greatest hits from the past 40 years just use 4 chords"

What I think matters is the content - the story being told.

And I've definitely put forward an original wild musical that explores belief and doubt.

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