Planet

Planet, also known as Rusty Angel: The Musical, is a musical adaptation of Planet-Shite. It opened at the Diamond Centre on the 8th of August 2019, before closing on the 12th. The show was created for a test audience, hence it's focus on humour and jokes. Unlike the show it is based on, the musical has more mature themes and a darker ending, along with changing personalities of certain characters.

A second production premiered on January 4th 2020, featuring a revised version of the script, and included new songs.

An official book script of the musical is due to be released in 2021.

## Plot

**ACT 1**

Freya Grose, a 12 year old filmmaker, is planning to make her own movie despite not having that many friends, she experiences her daily life while getting ready for school ("Five Hours Of Hell"). Freya meets up with her best friend, Kylie, during which, she witnesses a police investigation into a murder commited by a serial killer nicknamed 'Dawn'. After having a hard time at school ("Student Teacher Association"), Kylie convinces Freya to signup for the school play ("Audition Montage"). There she meets two older girls Molli, a semi famous child model who is on loads of magazines, and Michi, a young actress and painter. During a song, Molli talks about her life as a model ("Crazy to be the One") .The four become friends over rehearsing for the play, though through a fight it is revealed that Molli is stalking Kylie's cousin, Mercedes, and her friends, to which Molli confesses to obsessing over an older boy named George (whom Mercedes is friends with). After another disagreement between Kylie and Molli, Molli runs out into the rain and exposes herself. During the play, Michi has a feeling she is being stalked, and has a panic attack, in which, she seems to be killed ("Two Minutes"). Michi later reveals she somehow survived the attack. After the play, the four girls are invited by Mercedes and George to come to a summer house party. During closing time of the school, a teacher (who Freya fought with earlier), is killed in a suspicious accident. After the students hear about the 'accident' the next day, Kylie suggests that the suspicious incidents in their town are god's doing, causing Kylie and Freya to fight. Michi becomes suspicious of the world around her, and theorizes about things going on in her head, leading to her ("Big Blue Sky"). During a series of conversations, the cast reminise about what they want and what they need ("Livin' for Ecstasy").

**ACT 2**

The curtain opens to the house party, in which the cast are getting drunk and high ("Chills, Thrills"). During the party, Mercedes attempts to come onto George, to his dismay, until he confronts her about her actions, leaving him alone for the night. Meanwhile, Molli talks to Michi, reassuring her that as long as she's there Michi will be safe. Molli goes up to talk to George, and they have a friendly chat, leading Molli to give George a strong drink to knock him out. Freya and Kylie make-up and stand by their differences ("Forgiven"). Meanwhile, Molli kidnaps George, ties him up in her shed, and confronts him about her feelings ("Not a Little Girl"), and confesses that she is Dawn (but only confessing to a portion of the deaths in the town), and that she doesn't want to hang around George and his friends anymore because she has 'a new purpose in life', before killing him with an unknown contraption. Molli then walks into a bathroom and cuts the braids in her hair, until she discovers a mysterious book ("Not a Little Girl (reprise)"). Back at the party, Michi and Kylie are seen whispering to each other, to which Freya interrupts to ask where Molli went. Another accident occurs, seemingly killing Michi, but this time the stage errupts and swivels, and human-demon like creatures enter the stage, lights fade to black ("Chills,Thrills (reprise)"). The lights come back showing Michi in a feminine postuire (contrary to her character), she breaks the fourth wall and interacts with the audience, revealing that she is possessed, introducing herself as 'Alexander' and calling herself 'God'. We cut back to Freya, who has been kidnapped by three demons who plan to turn her into an animal and sell her. Freya luckily escapes and reunites with Kylie, confronting Michi, who, is in a puppet-like state. A voice in the sky (though not seen) reveals himself to be Alexander, owner of earth. He reveals his plan to torture the world, and how he possesed Michi from the first time she died ("An Artists Design") . Molli then makes her appearance, crawling out of the ground like a zombie, and announcing herself as a 'reborn'. Molli, along with other reborns, rise up and Michi fight in a magic battle before Alexander sends out demons to protect Michi. Freya, Kylie and Molli hide away with the other students/ensemble and plan a trap for Michi. While in hiding, Freya laments to Molli about her actions ("Gimme a Raisin"). The girls realise that the only way to stop Alexander controlling Michi, is to destroy the seed inside of her. The students and the reborns distract and kill the demons, before letting Freya and Kylie attempt to pin down Michi, to which they fail. Michi attempts to manipulate Molli to kill the two girls and join her so they can be best friends again, to which Molli convinces Michi (for an 'act of friendship') to drink the roofie she made for George, for Michi to then faint. Freya, Kylie and Molli grab weapons and start beating Michi, in hope to give her a thousand deaths. In one last second, Michi becomes unpossessed and with a one-liner, Molli gives the final blow, permenantly killing Michi ("Thousand Deaths"). The world then becomes corrupted and starts reversing. The next morning, Freya is woken up by her mother, explaining to her that during the previous night (during the play) Michi was killed and a blackout across the world occured. It then cuts to three years later (2019), with Freya explaining and showing all the outcomes for the main characters along with the reveal that the whole show is the film project Freya was making in 2016, suggesting that she remembers the alternate timeline ("Five Hours Of Hell (reprise)") .

## Controversies

### Ending Change

Writers of Planet, Emily Anne and Rena Calren, knew the ending would reciveve controversy from the first night. However, an alternative ending was written in the animated series' script in advance.

### Millie R Casting

Michelle Calren (the actress who portrayed Michi), has been very vocal about her opinion on this topic on twitter and instagram.

In the January 2020 performance, the role of Freya was played by Rye Atkins.

## Trivia

* Planet was the first MIKIZ-Flu project to not be in video form.
* This is the last MIKIZ project to feature Michelle Calren as a physical actress.
* Because of some themes in the story, it is hinted that the show itself is a commentary on horror in the 90s.
	+ Some evidence to back this up would be that certain characters are hinted to be metaphors for slasher icons.
		- This is now further confirmed by this .
* There is only one swear in the entire show, which a use of 'dick'.

* An audio bootleg of the musical was recorded to prove that the show passed the 'Six Laugh Test'.
	+ Said audio bootleg is planned to be included in the animated series' boxset/set.

* Rachel Corner, Siye C, and Michelle Calren are reprising their roles as Kylie, Molli and Michi in Planet-Shite .
* The opening song "Five Hours Of Hell", was inspired by the 'Hello Dolly!' song, "Put On Your Sunday Clothes".
	+ The song itself was originally much shorter than it currently is.
* The song "Chills, Thrills" is a parody on the Grandmaster Flash song, "White Lines".
* The role of Dawn was also played by another person, to accompany Siye C when she was playing Molli.
* In rehearsal, George was sometimes played by an actress, this was to make Molli's actress, Siye C, feel comfortable about making romantic gestures at another girl.
	+ When performing with George's actual actor, Siye commented saying *"I played Molli ironically, so I would just put my mind on a seperate cloud and step into a small pair of shoes, therefore I didn't feel bad talking about a man romantically because I was playing a character"*.
* Though Alexander's voice was created using a text-to-speech program, he is planned to have a voice actor in the animated series .
* Molli and Dawn's colour palletes are swaped.
* During rehearsal, Siye C accidentally broke one of Michelle Calren's squibs three times .

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/Kirsha\_Ay/status/1163090522917036032
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/Kirsha\_Ay/status/1163090531473403904
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/CalrenMichi/status/1208796622538334208
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/CalrenMichi/status/1208796150230405122
5. ↑ Throughout the story Michi is immortal, starting from her first death, hence why she dies more than once.
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/Kirsha\_Ay/status/1150759550447947779
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://twitter.com/Kirsha\_Ay/status/1163090526679306240
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/Kirsha\_Ay/status/1163090524355670016
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/Kirsha\_Ay/status/1163090529078394882
10. ↑ https://twitter.com/Kirsha\_Ay/status/1163090530366046208