Ladies and gentlemen, it’s official! I’m writing a musical!
For those of you in the community who have known me for a while, this is nothing new, but I’ve been working on it for quite awhile, so I finally want to unveil what I have so far.
The show is officially called “Tyrant! The Story of Robespierre” or just “Tyrant!” for short, and here’s my first concept for the album cover below!
As for the actual story and songs, right now I’m planning on having 16 songs per act, and I’ll format the songs I’ve written or am currently in the process of writing!
Italic = work in progress
Bold = fully written
With that being said, this is the song catalogue and all I’ve gotten done so far!
Act 1:
- Tyrant! (Show opener) - immediately after his death
- Address for the King - early childhood
- Never shall we part - transition from childhood to adulthood, meets Camille
- Song addressed to Miss Henriette - young adulthood
- And So I Reminisce - trio song for the siblings
- He Just Can’t Stop - lawyer career in Arras
- Let Us Speak/We Swear - Estates general + tennis court oath
- Camille’s Address (Bring It Down) - Storming of the bastille
- Hey Ladies! (Theroigne’s song + Women’s March on Versailles)
- Bienvenue aux Jacobins - Joins the Jacobin club and meets Danton, gets elected president of the club
- Never shall we part (1st reprise) - Camille’s marriage to Lucile
- Escape (Louis + Marie flee Paris, Champ de Mars massacre)
- There’s Safety Here (Robespierre meets Maurice Duplay, moves into the Duplay house)
- This Means War! (Speeches against the war and Brissotins, war gets declared anyways)
- The Tuileries Tango (Storming of the Tuileries and overthrow of the monarchy)
- Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité For All (Establishment of the republic, Robespierre at his height, his big “I want” song)
Act 2:
- Incorruptible (Saint-Just’s debut and Robespierre’s election to the National convention)
- So Ends the Reign of Tyranny (Louis’ trial and execution)
- Bienvenue aux committee/ Bienvenue le Jacobins (reprise) (Appointment to the CPS)
- Choose Your Side/And So I Reminisce (reprise) (Charlotte and Augustine’s fight, fracture in the family, duet with Élèonore, PLATONIC, NOT ROMANTIC)
- Principio Ad Finem/ A late night’s walk (“darker” ‘I want’ song, NOT A VILLAIN SONG )
- What is he doing? (Camille publishes his paper and says stupid stuff)
- Never Shall We Part (2nd and 3rd reprises) (Max and SJ duet, Camille’s denouncement from friends to enemies)
- A Meeting/Make Him a Monster (CPS meeting, Thermidorian villain song)
- You’re Unwell (Eleonore and SJ duet, Max falls ill/ slowly loosing his sanity)
- So Ends the Reign of Tyranny/ Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité for All (reprise) (Arrests and executions of Camille, Danton and their followers, closest thing to a villain song for Robespierre)
- This Glorious Day (Festival of the Supreme Being, more Thermidorian conspiring)
- Principio Ad Finem (reprise) (Max writes his 8 Thermidor speech)
- My Final Bow (8 Thermidor speeches for the convention and the Jacobins)
- We Swear/Let Me Speak! (9 Thermidor denouncement and arrest)
- Requiem (Hotel De Ville siege, bullet to the jaw, death, 11th hour power ballad)
- May You Ne’er Be Forgotten (basically charlotte’s ‘who lives who dies who tells your story’, her 11th hour power ballad, grand finale of the show)
I know that was a lot thrown at y’all, and obviously I’ve still got a long ways to go, but I’ll be working hard at it all summer, and I hope to have at least half of the first act finished by the end of this summer! I’ll keep working on asks too now that my schedule’s freed up, but I thought it’d be a fun announcement to share with all of you for Max’s birthday, and I can’t wait for you to see the rest of it! Love you all! ❤️❤️❤️
-Syd
