Throcky Gets Physical was a physics musical written and produced by Mr. Tapper's Block 4 Physics AP class at Morristown High School, NJ. Its one and only showing occurred on April 29th, 2002 in the high school auditorium. It kicked @$$.
There are many reasons why you might find Throcky Gets Physical interesting:
- Most obviously, there are no other musicals about physics that turn up in a Google search. If you are a physics teacher or student, you may take this as inspiration for your own project.
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- Throcky Gets Physical was written in a somewhat unique fashion. We kicked off the project with a massive brainstorming session at Andrea's house, where the entire class pooled their ideas together to come up with a general plot outline. Once that was accomplished, we split up into 3 groups, each given the task of writing a section of the play, as well as covering a third of the material from our physics textbook. Eventually, the three parts of the script were united, and I, Nelson, edited the script with input from other members of the class until it reached its final form.
I've started work on creating a playbill for Throcky Gets Physical; I always thought that it was a shame that we didn't have one.
The Downloads are complete, INCLUDING THE VIDEO! It's hosted on the Internet Archive.
Where are they now? Find out what happened to the cast and crew of Throcky Gets Physical as they brought their mad Physics Skillz to bear in the real world!
This is a picture of what I wanted our final project to be instead of a musical: putting our school into projectile motion! --> explodingdog.com
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