The Midwest Rock opera Company is planning on re-doing Purple Rain and doin' it 2 da 9's this time! The 1st weekend in may 2004 Milwaukee and MIROC will be hosting The Purple rain rock Opera and Princefest!!!- about time!!

Julian of julian's Ride has been hired to play the part of the KID. after each opera he will then be performing a montage of prince through the years...with ALL the CLASSIC COSTUMES! After the sat night show there will be a prince party in the banquet room. People should definately come dressed to impress!and Audience participation is requested.

Auditions will be held in chicago late august early september. We are seeking various roles as well as understudies for each role. - I will be posting the press release as soon as it is finnished. We are also seeking vendors for saturday and sunday of the fest- each vendor will donate one item to be raffled off at the party sat night and during the day on sunday.anyone interested in auditioning or setting up a vendor booth please contact me @ welcomethedawn@hotmail.com. I will continue to post as the info arises...Just mark your calenders and plan 2 party!!!

Convention director of Miroc-
Dawn

I would like to audition to play Aaron. (Prince's old bodygaurd *the white bald guy - circa late 90's*) Wait he wasn't in Purple Rain....Hmmmm....Let's see I could play Matt Fink as the crazy guitarist for the Modernaires.

The event actually sounds like it could be fun, but wow are you in for a lot of work trying to put together something like this.


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[This message was edited Thu Jul 17 14:56:53 PDT 2003 by lovemachine]

I've caught Julians Ride a couple of times..

Julian will be great in that role...he's got the
moves down, the costumes will put him over the
top...he's even got the smirk down too.

sounds like fun... too bad i'm not a local.

an opera? as in they are adding more songs? cause there is not enough music in PR to be an opera (rock or not), and way too much spoken dialogue.

do they mean that they are staging purple rain as a play? i am confused

Ok- It is technically a rock opera company. We will however have dialogue for purple rain...so, it then would be..technically a Rock musical- sorry for any confusion.

dawnrose said:

I don't live in Wisconsin...will u be taking this on the road? I'd like to see it.

good luck with the show but to be honest i couldn't have dreamt a more horrible death than watching this.

milty said:

lol Milty,id rather watch Showgirls in a loop over and over with a double shot of grafiti bridge followed by 3 hours of Tony M Acapellas, at least that wouldnt be as bad as some purple rain Rockopera
[This message was edited Thu Jul 17 17:18:27 PDT 2003 by Finess]

I'm afraid. Very afraid.

They should get a drag king to play The Kid. Now THAT would be sexy.

FYI- miroc is a non-profit org.Please view the web page at www.miroc.com our agenda with this particular show is domestic violence and a percentage of the proceeds will be going to a charity about that particular cause.

We will be donating to different causes for each show. Along with giving people the opportunity to be involved in thatre without having to do things like."Annie Get Your Gun" or "Oklahoma". LOL

dawnrose said:

domestic violence? well that's ironic, seeing as how there's a domestic violence storyline in the movie.