Halflife (musical)

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Halflife, the Musical is a fable about time and space by Forbes Allan (pseudonym of Allan Forbes Park). The script for it was originally posted online, the popularity of this script encouraged the writer to find the financial resources necessary to create a production. The play was set to be broadcast online in November 2000, and was the first Internet performance of a musical. Unfortunately the broadcast was fraught with technical difficulties.

From the announcement published in MadStage.com:

HalfLife is the first full-length dramatic work written to be broadcast live around the world on the Internet! More than a million people from all over the world have downloaded scenes from the script. The songs have been downloaded thousands of times and visitors await the opening night! Dr. Allan Park, founder and CEO of Canada's oldest independent Internet Service Provider -- The Wire -- has been working diligently with author, Forbes Allan to perfect the technology to produce the world's first broadcast of a live play via streaming live video over the Internet.

HalfLife is a new play written especially for Internet broadcast. It's a live play, from a real theatre with a real audience, and during actual performances of this Broadway-style musical it will have an audience from around the world! For the first time in the history of live theatre, the market will be the entire world. Rowanlea Grove Entertainment, owners of the worldwide performance rights to this original musical, will introduce its global audience to a musical comedy about the end of the universe.

[edit] References

• Original script at author's website
• Full description at MadStage.Com