BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH THE CCCC MUSICAL IDEAS YALL!!!!
Spring and a Storm is canonically a Soul song buutttt, it's an musical adaptation!! We can mess around a bit!! So the idea I had is that Soul is basically trying to clear the air between Mind and Heart (as a rift is already beginning to start again between them), and while snooping around for something that could bring them together in Mind's room (because memories are stored in the mind/brain and all that-), he stumbles across a memory in the form of a VHS tape labeled "love song". What better way to bring your brothers together and unite them with a common goal than a love song right? So Soul plays the tape, Heart is prideful because it's his work showing (proving to Mind that he's useful!) when suddenly the tape ends! Soul and Heart (yes only those two, because Mind, with his blue, logical butt, doesn't get the appeal of the love song (good ol fashioned foreshadowing for Storm and a Spring later on)) ponder briefly before deciding to just..finish it up themselves! Thus we get some cute springtime imagery and umbrella choreography (to mirror Storm and a Spring) and Mind looking uninterested in the back. I got this idea from the fact that the first minute or so sounds kinda low quality compared to the rest of it. So my thought was...VHS tape!
There's what i can best describe as a wall of lights in the back of the stage. Think of something similar to the wall of lights in Diana the Musical.
So basically throughout the show (notably in Dream, Night, Light, and The Soul Eclectic), the Wall of Lights is in action!
During Night, HMS are dressed in the OTHER colors they are associated with (Soul in grey, Mind in white, and Heart in black)
The boys are having an absolute blast during Variations on a Cloud; they can start an audience clap-along as a treat.
During VOAC, the boys and the ensemble are holding glowing prop clouds, think of something like the McC*rter version of Sugar Cloud from Ride the Cyclone!
During The Bidding, the set is made to resemble an auction house. With each verse Heart and Mind sing (Soul is the auctioneer so he doesn't participate) they slam color-coded currency (Heart gets purple and black dollars, Mind gets white and blue dollars, the ensemble gets gray, red, and gold (to represent Whole) dollars) down on a table perhaps, until Heart tries to attack Mind during the "And here he is, the piece of shit, sitting, seething, high atop his stolen throne" bit.
During the "See how the serfs work the ground..." bit in "The Soul Eclectic", Soul gestures towards either the band/orchestra in the pit (or onstage!) or to the audience.