Curious Incident Score: Audio Samples
The full showpack includes over 25 music cues (provided as high-quality downloadable 48/24 WAV files), plus a detailed cue sheet (with script page numbers and dialogue/action cues) for suggested usage, which you’ll be free to build upon, rearrange, or disregard. The script specifies “there is very cool, electro music,” and the score was designed to express Christopher’s mathematical mind: his affinity for computers and patterns, his rhythmic repetitions of numbers and personal habits, and the constant tension between order and disorder.
Here are some preview snippets from the showpack to give you a feel for the score. If you need to hear more, visit the licensing page and make contact!
“Curiouser and Curiouser” is a flexible cue that can open the show, underscore the curtain call, or fit in various other places. The other sample cues are designed for specific moments noted on the cue sheet, though you’re free to use elsewhere. “Maths Appendix” builds to a post-curtain-call crescendo finale as Christopher triumphantly proves his favorite maths A-level problem to the audience. As the script prescribes, “Using as much theatricality as we can throw at it, using music, lights, sound, lasers, the boxes, the train tracks, the rest of the company, the orchestra, the f**king ushers for Christ’s sake, using dance, song, bells, whistles, the works….”
The music was originally inspired by traditional productions of the show, which commonly involve highly-immersive lighting and sound design, and sometimes emulate the elaborately choreographed ensemble work (helping to form props and objects and settings) and creative actor staging seen in the original West End and Broadway productions. However, it is perfectly suitable for more intimate productions as well, and can be—and has been—successfully used for such subtle stagings by picking and choosing cues and how they’re used.
Comes with a cue sheet that you can use as-is, or use as a template for creating your own. References script pages from the standard Dramatists Play Service acting edition script (scripts and performance rights for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time available here from DPS).
The audio files include a handful of example cuts including rough actor voiceovers, to demonstrate possible usage in performance. (These are for example purposes only and under no circumstances to be used or made public.)
