Plot summary Lifehouse (rock opera)

1 plot summary

1.1 1971 version
1.2 1978 version
1.3 1999 radio play version

plot summary

lifehouse has 3 variations in storyline:

1971 version

in world album set in, pollution bad populace forced wear lifesuits, suits simulate experiences in way no 1 have leave home.

the suits plugged huge mainframe called grid, similar today s internet, contains tubes sleeping gas, food, , entertainment; supposedly, live out tens of thousands of lifetimes in short period within grid. grid controlled man named jumbo.

the story begins when farming family in scotland hear of huge rock concert called lifehouse occurring in london, sort of post-apocalyptic woodstock. daughter, mary, runs away join concert. don t wear lifesuits because supposedly out of pollution s range , farm crops government buys feed lifesuiters. bobby creator of lifehouse. (bobby tentative name of project time.) hacker broadcasts pirate radio signals advertising concert, participants personal data taken them , converted music, quite literally finding song . @ climax of album, authorities have surrounded lifehouse; perfect note rings forth through combination of s songs, storm place find has disappeared through sort of musical nirvana, , people observing concert through lifesuits have vanished well.

1978 version

set 2 hundred years after events in s next version, tells story of attempt @ lifehouse concert. concert holders helped muso , cult worships music, , hated plusbond, group runs grid , lifesuits.

1999 radio play version

ray , sally farmers grow, sally said, dead potatoes . daughter, mary, runs away home visit hacker has fascinated pirated radio advertisements. ray goes try find lost child , along way meets childhood self, rayboy, , imaginary friend, caretaker.