Air Guitar's Plot
The premise of the show was pretty simple: Drew is a guitarist in his late 20s, struggling with his own mediocrity as a musician and his pretensions to high art. He plays his “compositions for solo electric guitar” every month at an open mic to the same 12 bored friends, but longs for the days when he won a battle of the bands in college and had the adoration of hundreds of fans, including Celeste, the woman whom he later married and with whom he lives along with his college buddy (and former bandmate) Steve. When the opportunity to compete in the 2007 Air Guitar Championships presents itself, Drew finds himself drawn into the world of air guitar, struggling with his perception of air guitar as a fake art form even as he finds out, to his horror, that he’s a really, really good air guitarist. Top it all off with a romance story built on a marriage on the rocks thanks to Drew’s depression about his failure as a musician and you’ve got the basic idea for the plot.Air Guitar Not Exactly a Metal Musical
Was it a metal musical? Not quite; the perhaps unwanted day when such a show does come to the stage is still in the future. Like all musicals, Air Guitar the Musical had its share of poppy, upbeat tunes used in classic musical style as vehicles for the characters to express their emotions. However, what Air Guitar did have was the songs written for the air guitar competitions (modeled by the playwrights after the real thing that takes place every year) which required hot, tasty riffs and smoking guitar solos for the performers to strut their stuff. Death metal fans, this music wasn’t for you, but if you’re down with the power metal (up to and including the high-pitched shrieks so favored by power metal singers), you’ll be entertained by what you see and hear.
