What's My Line?

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The Unified Northern Casualty and Liability Exchange proudly presents the What’s My Line? Challenge.

Prompt: Everything’s Coming Up U.N.C.L.E.
Theme: Corporate industrial musicals

What is a corporate industrial musical, you say? A Broadway-style extravaganza put on by a corporation. They were often high-budget productions which utilized top talent. Besides entertaining annual conferences, they would introduce new products, teach sales/management techniques, and send the employees home with fresh inspiration and motivation.


For the challenge, write a story inspired by the prompt and theme. What if UNCLE or Thrush put on an industrial musical to stimulate their agents? Or Napoleon and Illya have a mission which takes them into this world? Let your imagination run wild and put on your own extravaganza!

Section VII is a Gen and Gen-mature site. Stories that are Het, long-term romance & AU can be posted in the Map Room. All other genres post in UNCLE du Jour.

Posting Dates: Friday, June 21st through Thursday, June 27th

Word Count: 500 minimum, no maximum

Subject Header: What’s My Line?, the title, and the date

Tags: whats my line, gen or gen_mature

Please include the prompt at the top of your post.

You can learn more about industrial musicals at https://www.industrialmusicals.com/about/ or by watching the delightful documentary Bathtubs Over Broadway on Netflix.

Comments

[threecee.livejournal.com]

I never knew this was a real thing!

In the late 80's my library did a video for the first Staff In Service Day. Each branch or department was supposed to introduce all their staff with an imaginative skit, including background music or singing. Admin was expecting something about how people loved their jobs.

They got an imaginative range of violence against patrons, including killing ones who were especially annoying, songs about how library pay is terrible, and some serious dislike of the new computer system. No one knew the Director's secretary was a fantastic Saturday Night Live style comedienne, especially the Director who was the focus of her jokes.

For some reason they never had us do something like that again even though staff had a ball making and watching it.

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[ssclassof56.livejournal.com]

That’s awesome. And a great play on the prompt. What kind of stuff might Lisa Rogers write? Or how might Section III roast Section II agents? So many possibilities. :D

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

this is brilliant, truly brilliant. Please do post reminders because I don't want this to get lost in the shuffle.

[ssclassof56.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I watched the documentary last night and was inspired. Weird that The Off-Broadway Affair is one of my least favorite episodes. I’ll schedule a few reminders. :)

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

O-M-G!!!!