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General MacNamara tells Paul there is a helicopter due to leave soon and gives him the chance to save his friends and get out of the city. Just as the infected are about to kill Paul, the army arrives and chases the infected students away, saving Paul. Bill attempts to shoot himself out of grief, but Paul stops him, only for the infected Alice to take the gun and shoot Bill, killing him. The assimilated Alice torments Bill, telling him that he never paid any attention to her, and that he is responsible for getting his daughter killed ("Not Your Seed"). The pair arrive at the High School, bringing the shotgun to defend themselves with, but Alice has already been infected. Hidgens and Emma try to analyze the alien matter, while Paul helps Bill track down his daughter, Alice, who is held up in Hatchetfield High School. They attack the group, but are swiftly shot and killed by Professor Hidgens with a shotgun. Suddenly, the infected Charlotte and Sam arrive, urging the survivors to "Join Us and Die". Meanwhile, Emma and Paul have a tender conversation about their backgrounds and dreams. While left alone with his wife, Sam awakens and convinces Charlotte (through song) to untie him, allowing him to kill and infect her ("You Tied Up My Heart"). The group ties the unconcious Sam to a chair to prevent him from escaping. The group takes the wounded Sam with them to Professor Hidgen's house, one of Emma's teachers at her community college and a doomsday survivalist. After singing, Ted hits Sam over the head with a trash can lid while the other officers escape. After the song continues longer than it should, Emma and Paul discover that the coffee is being poisoned and people are indeed being infected and the world is becoming a musical ("Cup of Poisoned Coffee").Īfter running away, they find their way to where Paul's co-workers are hiding out in an alley but are met by Sam, Charlotte's husband, and his fellow police officers who have become infected ("Show Me Your Hands"). Scared, he flees to the coffee shop, where it initially appears Emma has been infected too, though her singing was just further musical incentives from her boss, including a specific song and dance which she later performs with her co-workers ("Cup of Roasted Coffee"). Bewildered, he goes to work and finds the same thing has happened to Mr. That night a meteor crashes into the Hatchetfield starlight theatre, which unknown to Paul has brought an alien infection that forces the infected to act as if they are in a musical.Īs he walks to work he begins to notice people dancing in the street, before being confronted by a Greenpeace worker who breaks out into song, the rest of the nearby people joining in ("La Dee Dah Dah Day"). She doesn't enjoy the new company incentive to sing when tipped. Paul goes to the coffee shop around the corner where we are introduced to Emma, a barista who Paul has a crush on.
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This particular scene shows us that Charlotte has a strained relationship with her cop husband, Sam, and that Bill and his daughter, Alice, also have a strained relationship. We are then introduced to Paul alongside his co-workers, Bill, Ted, Charlotte, Melissa and their boss, Mr. In the opening number, the ensemble establishes that the protagonist, Paul, has a strong disliking towards musicals ("The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals"). He and his friends are forced to survive in a world that is slowly becoming a musical, with people spontaneously singing and dancing in synchronization. The story centers around Paul, a guy who doesn't like musicals.