"Go Tonight" - The Mad Ones Musical ANIMATIC

You'll see that desk once, and then never again.

Hey hey hey I have awoken from my two-year slumber -- and it only took a global pandemic to make it happen! Also, I know there's only like 3,000 people currently alive that know The Mad Ones — even I had to buy the physical libretto to find out what this show was about. Due to this, I tried to include as much exposition in this animatic as I could without becoming painfully heavy-handed, but I fear that there's still a lot not coming across. That's why I wrote a little summary here; hopefully this helps contextualize the animatic and encourages you to listen to the entire soundtrack (which slaps btw).

THE MAD ONES SUMMARY:
Sam (the girl with the black hair) is a recent high school graduate trying to work up the nerve to leave the safety of her home and go to college. This is so difficult because she has a lot of unresolved feelings involving her best friend, Kelly (the girl with the blonde hair), who tragically died in a car crash during their last year of high school. And, basically, the whole show is Sam revisiting her memories in her imagination and trying to come to terms with what happened.

“Go Tonight” is the climax of the show (or, at least, I think it is?), which is incited by a call from her mother, who delivers the news that Kelly was hit by a car. Then, throughout the song, Sam relives the last moment she ever saw Kelly alive — outside of a college dorm, a party raging on inside, with Kelly pleading for Sam to come run away with her. And, in the present day, Sam feels a lot of guilt about this, because she thinks that if she HAD run away with Kelly that night, then Kelly would still be alive.

And yeah there's a bunch of metaphors with cars and the open road, as it represents freedom and independence and being young and all that good stuff.

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Song used: "Go Tonight" from The Mad Ones.
All song, story, and character rights go to Kerrigan & Lowdermilk, Craft Recordings and Concord Theatricals.