Following on from my updates post yesterday, where I mentioned creating my own reading challenge for 2024, I thought it’d be good to show you the prompts for said reading challenge. It’s hosted on Storygraph, but of course you are more than welcome to use it even if you’re not on there, and please feel free to keep me updated in your posts about it! When I looked at reading challenges last year, I was surprised there wasn’t a Musicals one already, and as the year went on I gave more and more thought to creating one myself. So, here it is! You can find the challenge on Storygraph here.
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Musicals Reading Challenge 2024
1st January 2024 – 31st December 2024
24 Prompts
Prompts
Les Misérables – Do You Hear the People Sing
A book featuring a rebellion or revolution
Hamilton – My Shot
A book about/featuring a key historical figure
Six – Six
A book with at least one queen
Mamma Mia! – Take a Chance on Me
A second chance romance
Cabaret – Willkommen
Set around a club/bar/venue
Oliver! – Consider Yourself
Found family
Chicago – We Both Reached for the Gun
Killer women
The Rocky Horror Show – The Time Warp
A book involving time travel
Guys and Dolls – Luck Be a Lady
A book involving gambling or card games
Little Shop of Horrors – Somewhere That’s Green
A book featuring or about plants
Annie – Sandy
Featuring a dog
Grease – We Go Together
A book set in a school
Moulin Rouge – Come What May
Forbidden love
Wicked – No One Mourns the Wicked
From a villain or anti-hero’s POV
Hair – Aquarius
Set in or about the 1960s
Pippin – Corner of the Sky
Coming of age
The Sound of Music – Do-Re-Mi
Involves music
Newsies – Seize the Day
About or involving unions and/or workers’ rights
Blood Brothers – Tell Me It’s Not True
A book that ripped your heart out
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat – One More Angel in Heaven
Jealousy
Across the Universe – I’ve Just Seen a Face
Fated mates and/or instalove
Annie Get Your Gun – Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)
Rivals
Come From Away – Welcome to the Rock
A harsh enviroment
Sweet Charity – Big Spender
Featuring a rich and/or ‘upper class’ character
I haven’t yet decided on my books for this challenge (though I definitely have some ideas!) as I want to see what I end up finishing by the end of the year. I think I’m going to have lots of fun picking them out though, and I’m looking forward to starting this challenge. What do you think? I admit it started getting harder to think of prompts, partly because I also limited myself only to musicals I’ve seen, but it really was a lot of fun going through them and thinking how to match up songs to the prompts themselves!
Feel free to take part in whichever way you choose, and I would love to see the books you use for these.
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