Bystanders
2008
Bystanders survives in the archive primarily as a set of music recordings made in February 2008. No script, program, or cast list has been recovered, but the demo tracks tell their own story: this was a musical built around a gallery of named characters, each given a song of their own.
The recordings open with an Intro and move through a sequence of character pieces — Erich, Serena, Denise, Jaymee, Bob, Bill, and Sylvia — before closing with a Finale. The structure suggests an ensemble piece in which a handful of ordinary people, the bystanders of the title, step forward one at a time to be heard. Additional working tracks labeled "boy," "girl," "new intro," and "outro" point to a score that was still being shaped and revised as the show came together.
Musical Numbers
- Intro
- Erich
- Serena
- Denise
- Jaymee
- Bob
- Bill
- Sylvia
- Finale
Production Notes
The surviving demo recordings are dated February 2008. The materials in the archive consist entirely of audio files; no text documents, scripts, or programs were found, so cast, venue, and crew details are not currently known.