Nevere's Love Potion
A New Musical Workshop

This five week long workshop process with Stages Bloomington performers to develop and stage a concert style presentation of the new musical, Nevere's Love Potion.

Nevere is the brightest young witch at Spellwright School for Wizardry, she's got her best friend Taolo, a slightly annoying familiar Cletus, and her loving-if-out-of-touch mom--so why does she feel like something is really wrong? After a school assembly about the dangers of love potions, Nevere snatches her professor's spell book, just a week before the Spring Fling. While giving someone else a love potion may be kinda dicey, what if you could make a love potion . . . for yourself? 

 

NEVERE’S LOVE POTION is a musical about consent, mental health, and the bravery it takes to ask for help. 

Stages Performers will . . .
-Bring a new, never-before-seen story to life
-Impact the trajectory of the plot, book and libretto of a new work through their acting choices and feedback
-Make bold character choices in a process with a short turn-around
-Incorporate script changes into their understanding of a character

The Process:
-Week 1: Learn the music
-Week 2: Test out new scenes/revised scenes/songs
-Week 3: Rehearse rehearse rehearse
-Week 4: Lock in performances and present

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Roles for Performers:

9-15 performers
PROFESSOR LONELYHEARTS
NEVERE
ATHENA
TAOLO
KAMIL
RAOUL
HEADMASTER OWENS
NEVERE’S MOM
CLETUS
HALL MONITOR MAEVE

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Directed by Annalise Cain

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