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Baron Von Christof is a show about a guitarist once renowned throughout all the land as the greatest and most inspirational musician of his time who has gotten lost in his own mind after losing his ability to play music.
You see BVC was in love with a woman named Layli. When Layli’s father married her off to another man the Baron went insane over the loss of his true love. To the Baron she was his world, his everything, his very reason for being a musician.
Now, without her, he can’t play music at all.
So our Baron created a world where he could be with her. In this world the abnormal becomes the accepted rule of law. There are gargantuan instruments played by multiple people. Instruments that make sounds they’re not supposed to, like a ukulele sounding like a trumpet or a drum set like a Yucatan bird. Mundane objects are strange too. Something as simple as a strand of his beloved’s hair becomes a guitar string. The Baron finds that even the people are different, some can’t even talk, they sing.
Not all in his world is perfect. He discovers that Layli will not stay in this world until he plays beautiful music once again. But he finds he can’t play his guitar the normal way. He tries everything from blowing in it, playing it like a piano, even throwing rubber balls at it to make the music he remembers. But none of it works. So he calls on the flaky dreamers, control freaks and friends who populate this new world for help. Each attempt brings his love close, but unfortunately each failure drives her away.
Finally he is able to play his beautiful music and Layli grants him the only thing he’s ever wanted, a show of her love…a single kiss. With this kiss she will be able to end his misery, his wanting, and his desire for her. But it is this kiss that will also end his life.
This show is a spectacular journey through the mind of a true artist and hopeless romantic. It will excite, surprise and fascinate audiences with a world composed of vignettes that explore sights and sounds all wrapped around one of the oldest love stories ever told. Truly a melancholy warning to all those who fall madly in love.
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