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A number of international productions have followed the original, and ''We Will Rock You'' has been seen in Australia, Canada, Russia, Spain, Japan, South Africa, Zurich, Vienna, New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong. A rewritten version played in Las Vegas, Nevada for 16 months over 2004-05. As of July 2009, productions are still active in Great Britain and Germany.
A workshop script version of the show lasted up until and around the first few previews, when it was tested and changed accordingly. This can be found sometimes around the net, but is rare.
A sequel is currently in the works, and as of March 2009 a draft has been completed.
=== The Story: ===
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* Killer Queen: The [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|villain]] of the musical, she rules over Planet Mall with an iron fist. The character's name is a reference to the Queen song ''Killer Queen''.
* Khashoggi: Killer Queen's [[Straight Man|second-in-command]], Khashoggi is [[Only Sane Man|head of Globalsoft's police]] and carries out Killer Queen's dirty work. The character's name is a reference to the Queen song ''Khashoggi's Ship''.
* Other Bohemians: The other Bohemians have constantly changing names following media trends. These are usually music-related, and have included [[Paul McCartney]], [[Bruce Springsteen]], Robbie Williams, [[
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* [[Adrenaline Makeover]]: Scaramouche gets one when she and Galileo make it to the Bohemians. However she started out as a [[Deadpan Snarker]] and became a [[Stripperiffic|stripperific]] deadpan snarker after the [[Of Corsets Sexy|makeover]].
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Subverted, in a sense. Galileo, while showing all the typical signs of [[Troubled but Cute]], is really only 'bad' because of his dreams, and Scaramouche is quick to break up with him when he is particularly insensitive, or chauvinistic.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Galileo, Scaramouche, and the Bohemians are hated by the Ga Ga society.
* [[Anvils That Needed to Be Dropped]]: The show pretty much lives of the 'Don't be like everyone else/Be yourself' aseop.
** Which is ironic, considering how easy it is to get the audience, and people in general, stomping and clapping along to the song ''We Will Rock You''.
* [[Anything That Moves]]: [[Fanon]] view on Bohemian society.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Pretty much all the named characters in the show, but bonus points to Killer Queen and Scaramouche. Galileo certainly thinks his name is this.
* [[Badass Normal]]: This one goes to the biggest, baddest, meanest, nastiest, ugliest, most raging, rapping, rock and rolling, sick, punk, heavy metal, psycho bastard that ever got get down funky. They call him Britney Spears.
** Or whatever name he happens to be going by in the current productions.
* [[Bad to the Bone]]: While arguably all the songs could stand for this, the two stand outs are the ''Brighton Rock'' and ''Tie Your Mother Down'' instrumentals. ▼
* [[The Baroness]]: The Killer Queen
* [[Beautiful All Along]]: It could be said that this is the case for Scaramouche, however, she is never really stated as unattractive. The only difference the makeover seems to give her is a boost to her own self confidence when it comes to her body image.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Similar to [[Cultural Translation]], some Canadiana references were peppered throughout its run at the Canon Theater in Toronto. Including Killer Queen ordering her minions to blow up rocks, including Newfoundland, Galileo reciting the I Am Canadian Molson Speech, Galileo also referencing "Sharon, Lois and Bram," also Scaramouche wears Canadian flag underwear. All this, among others.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: During ''Flash''.
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* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: The Tales of Ga Ga. One volume so far, covering the first act of the show. Art is ... questionable
* [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]]: The laws pretty much enforces this trope.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: The Killer Queen to the Bohemians.
* [[The Cover Changes the Meaning]]: Sort of. Lyrics are seen as Holy Texts to the Bohemians.
* [[Culture Police]]: Killer Queen and Globalsoft are bent on eliminating all music and, thus, free thought, on Planet Mall, aka Earth.
** Ironically, Killer Queen sings about three songs about throughout the play. This is excusable, though, because it's a musical. And, really, who else but a villain could do ''Another One Bites The Dust''?
* [[Cultural Translation]]: The Las Vegas version (so far, the only U.S. staging) was rewritten to set the Seven Seas of Rhye in Vegas (long since flooded thanks to global warming), and {{spoiler|Graceland, Elvis Presley's mansion, replaced Wembley Stadium in the climax}}. Vegas-specific jokes were added, including a Bohemian named Wayne Newton, Galileo having a bad dream about Celine Dion, and a [[Take That]] at [[Cirque Du Soleil]] when Pop claims a Queen musical was so successful in Vegas that it ran the Cirque shows out of town. This is now a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] -- the Cirque shows are still running there...
* [[Cut Song]]: Going by the [[What Could Have Been|workshop script]] quite a lot actually...
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Galileo and Scaramouche are meant to be school leaving age, and are often played by performers in their twenties.
* [[Deadly Euphemism]]: When {{spoiler|Khashoggi tells Killer Queen Gallileo and Scaramouche escaped she [[You Have Failed Me...|"Blows his mind"]] as punishment.}}
* [[Double Meaning Title]]: "It's not just a title, it's a promise," according to the show's taglines... Frankly, it delivers.
* [[The Dragon]]: Khashoggi
* [[Dying Declaration of Love]]: Played with. Galileo and Scaramouche are pretty sure they're going to die, and it's part of what motivates them to confess their feelings.
* [[Dystopian Edict]]: Under the rule of the Killer Queen and Globalsoft, rock music is not allowed. Granted, this is probably the most legit way to get a plot out of [[The Power of Rock]]
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Khashoggi in ''Flash'' and ''Seven Seas of Rhye''.
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* [[Five-Man Band]]: fittingly, Galileo [[The Hero]], Scaramouche [[The Lancer]], Brit [[The Big Guy]], Pop [[The Smart Guy]], and Meat [[The Chick]].
* [[Flippant Forgiveness]]: In the second act
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'''Galileo:''' Thanks, Scaramouche.
'''Scaramouche:''' I mean it's not your fault you're a spineless, gutless, whinging little crybaby! }}
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: The original Pop is [[The Young Ones|Neil]]
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** The Las Vegas production has featured an unusually large proportion of the Neverland Express ([[Meat Loaf]]'s touring band), including drummer John Miceli, guitarist Paul Crook, and backing vocalists Patti Russo (who played the Killer Queen) and Aspen Miller (who played Scaramouche).
* [[Irrelevant Act Opener]]: ''One Vision'' to an extent. It shows part of the Ga Ga day - and gives more [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|Orwellian]] parallels, but it does seem irrelevant considering how Act One ended.
* [[Intertwined Fingers]]: This is an important moment in the show when Scaramouche and Galileo end up holding hands like this during ''Who Wants To Live Forever'' and they realise that actually they've been falling in love since they first met.
* [["I Want" Song]]: Oh, where to begin. A ''lot'' of the songs could be considered I Want songs to someone or other.
** For Galileo we have ''I Want to Break Free'' {{spoiler|that is, until you click that the only way he can 'break free' from life is to... [[Driven to Suicide|yeah]]...}}
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** For the Bohemians it's ''I Want It All''.
** For the Killer Queen, arguably, ''Play the Game''.
** Khashoggi has ''Seven Seas of Rhye'' which is also one of the more awesome scenes to watch.
** Pop has the melancholic ''These Are the Days of Our Lives'', which is less of a personal want, but more of a desire for a return to simpler times.
* [[Jukebox Musical]]: Though it's billed as a [[Rock Opera|Rock Theatrical]].
* [[La Résistance]]: [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|The Bohemians]]
* [[Long Runners]]: It's the longest running musical in the Dominion Theatre, and one of the longest running on the West End.
* [[Lost Technology]]: The basic premise behind the musical, where music itself (non-programmed) is the Lost Technology.
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: Granted, again, it's Queen. ''Somebody to Love'' is the most glaring example, but ''I Want to Break Free'' also counts.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Arguably Meat, but [[Fanon]] usually gives this role to another Bohemian - typically [[Fan Nickname|Cheeky Fairy]].
* [[Medium Awareness]]: Whether Galileo is aware of being in a Musical or not during We Will Rock You remains open for debate, that his band knows that they're in a musical is established when they tell the [[Big Bad]] that they've in fact been in the wings for the whole show.
* [[Mega Corp]]: Globalsoft is this, without a doubt. It owns the planet, and has renamed it Planet Mall
* [[Musicalis Interruptus]]: Killer Queen starts to sing the opening verse ''Don't Stop Me Now'' to celebrate the defeat of The Bohemians, when she is interrupted by Commander Kashoggi, who informs her that Galileo & Scaramouche were able to escape. He, of course, pays the penalty.
** Averted just once in the London production on the sixth anniversary. The Killer Queeen told Kashoggi that he'd been interrupting her for years and tonight she was going to finish the damn song. It was epic.
*** Also on Freddie Mercury's "60th birthday" performance when [[McFly]] came onstage to sing Don't Stop Me Now.
* [[Musical World Hypotheses]]: To be expected within a musical. The Bohemians do seem like the type of people to randomly burst into song, but the actual music they hear is likely all in their heads.
* [[Nice Job Guiding Us Hero]]: Khashoggi and the Secret Police find the Heartbreak Hotel
* [[Novelization]]: Well, more [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoUlfoNG5fA&feature=feedu comic book adaptation]
* [[Officer and a Gentleman]]: Khashoggi fits, to an extent.
* [[The Power of Rock]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Yep.]]
* [[Protest Song]]: In the context of the musical, both ''I Want to Break Free'' and ''Somebody to Love'' fit.
* [[Rock Opera Plot]]: Averted. It works out.
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* [[Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll]]: [[Lampshaded]]. The Bohemians list the first two as descriptions of what rock and roll actually is, before admiting that they don't know.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Most notably, [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|the names of the Bohemians]], and a remarkably high proportion of the dialogue is just straight shout-outs to song lyrics. [[The Other Wiki|The Other Wiki's]] list of referenced songs reaches well into double figures.
* [[Sinister Shades]]: Commander Khashoggi.
** In the Toronto version of the musical, he is also shown to have [[Mismatched Eyes|two different colored eyes]], which might explain why he wears them.
*** Considering the type of character Khashoggi is, it is fully possible he wears the shades to call on this trope.
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Galileo and Scaramouche. To the point that once they kiss they actually break up ''immediately afterwards'' just to repeat the cycle.
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* [[Stepford Smiler]]: The Ga Ga kids. So much so that they are described as Stepford Kids in the book.
** But they aren't hiding anything...
*** Depends on your viewing of the show, and how much attention is payed to incidental details. During ''One Vision'' the dance set-up subtly implies that many of the Ga Ga kids may hide Bohemian tendancies.
* [[Villain Song]]: [[The Dragon|Khashoggi's]] performance of ''The Seven Seas of Rhye'' is performed with all the usual candor of a Villain Song and has a background choir provided by members of La Resistance during [[Electric Torture]].
** Not the mention the Killer Queen's performances of ''Killer Queen'' and ''Another One Bites the Dust''
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: The Killer Queen. She does run the planet after all.
* [[What Are You in For?]]: How Scaramouche and Galileo meet.
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* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Commander Khashoggi, the head of the Globalsoft Secret Police. An [[Officer and a Gentleman]] with peroxide-white hair.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Duh.
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