The Final Stand Musical

Story Hub

This is where we are keeping the story, characters, songs and ideas we are still working on.

TFS

Story so far

The current story and song order, including unfinished songs.

Character list

Song list

Relationships

Things to remember

Current means it is part of the plan. It does not mean the song is finished or ready to record.

The beginning: We open with the Ephors. They are worried Leonidas will get himself killed when they need him as king. The Persians are coming, but Carneia means Sparta cannot go to war. They argue over whether to stay home and pray or fight. Ares then tells them the gods do not approve of the war. Apollo overhears him and decides to help.

Topic	Where we are with it
Pyrrhos	Kleon has been renamed Pyrrhos. If you see Kleon in any older TFS material, it is the same character.
Album expansion	Still working on We have eleven expansion slots. “The Hand That Draws the String” and “They Loved Me First” are two of them. Athena’s response to “Keeping the Peace” is still a placeholder. Her song will come before “The Hand That Draws the String.” “They Loved Me First” comes after “Day 1.” It takes the place of the Album 2 Aphrodite placeholder. The Elysium song comes after the Gorgo and Cleom duet. It is sung entirely in Ancient Greek, with no instruments. “Legacy” follows it. Right now, Trials of Fire has 16 songs, Trials of the Mind has 14 and Trials of Darkness has 16. That is 46 songs, including nine untitled placeholders. The current order is “The Final Stand,” Pyrrhos’s return song, “Timeless,” the Pyrrhos/Pavlos/Cleom song, the Gorgo/Cleom duet, Elysium and “Legacy.”
Timeless	Current song Gorgo and Leonidas sing this duet after his death. It comes right after Pyrrhos’s return song. The Pyrrhos/Pavlos/Cleom song and Gorgo/Cleom duet follow.
Unfinished endings	Not decided The Pyrrhos scenes are planned. We still need the final endings for Gorgo, Pavlos, Cleom and Xerxes.
The ending	Just an idea One idea is that Zeus takes Greece and the name Ares away from him, turning him into Mars. We have not decided if we are doing this yet or exactly how it would happen.
Captain Atticus	Current Atticus is Leonidas’s second in command. He leads the exchange with the Persian Messenger in the new version. Artemis is only the goddess.
Doubling	Still working on The Ephors also play other characters. Right now we have the Persian Messenger, Persian General, Oracle and the Pyrrhos/Hades track. We have not decided the fifth track yet. The Ephors will play most ensemble parts, but we still need to work out who plays which parts, including the Elysium judges and choir. The actor playing Atticus also plays Cleom, and the actor playing Ephialtes also plays Leonidas’s father.
Hades	Current Hades is the voice of death in “The Final Stand.” For Elysium, three judges begin Leonidas’s judgment. Hades joins as the fourth voice when they recognize his courage and sacrifice, then leads the choir as Leonidas enters Elysium. The song is entirely in Ancient Greek, with no instruments. The vocal arrangement and possible Pyrrhos/Hades double still need to be worked out.
The Oracle	Still working on The older “Escape” lyrics give her a sung part. We still need to confirm whether she sings in the final version.
History and mythology	Current We use real history and mythology, but this is still our version of the story. Something being historical does not automatically make it part of the musical.

Music

The different groups should sound different from each other. We are using rock, pop, R&B, rap, soul, EDM, dark synth, acoustic and electronic drums, synth bass, 808s, horns and strings.

Athena: vibraphone · Apollo: harp and voices · Artemis: flute · Ares: march drums and strings · Aphrodite: marimba · Poseidon: piano · Zeus: electric sound · Hades: dark choir · Cyrus: disco synth