A musical about writing a Broadway Musical!
Book and Lyrics by Elizabeth Hansen
Music and Lyrics by C. Michael Perry
Once a successful writing couple of hit Broadway Musicals, Jenny Sterling and Johnny Hayes, estranged over creative differences and parental conflicts over their three children. Jenny, still writing but not at her former level, is mired down in those writing blocks that threaten to derail her current show. Her producer decides to contact Johnny, now a successful writer of film scores and musicals to come in to ghostwrite the new song needed for a crucial spot in the show. Johnny is unaware that he is writing the song for his former wife’s show. Jenny is unaware that Johnny has been contacted to fill the order. They are told to report to a hotel suite at the Waldorf to write the song the producer needs over 2 days as the opening in Boston is a week away! And the fireworks fly from there!
- CAST: (1m, 1w, 1voice)
- (JENNY) JENNY STERLING — it is her first stab at writing BML (usually just lyrics – sometimes book)
- MERRICK DEAN— the risk it all, control-freak-producer (a physical presence off to the side or a phone voice only)
- (JOHNNY) JOHNNY HAYES – a composer/lyricist
- About 2 hours
- Single Interior Setting: a hotel suite
- Time: 1950s
- New York City — The Waldorf Astoria
PERUSAL SCRIPT (Act One only)
LIST OF SONGS:
- ACT ONE
- #1 PRELUDE
- #2 NOT YOU! Johnny & Jenny
- #3a A SONG LIKE THIS Johnny & Jenny
- #3b WHAT WE NEED… Johnny & Jenny
- #4a IS IT LOVE AGAIN? Johnny & Jenny
- #4b THIS ISN’T YOU Johnny & Jenny
- #5 TOO MANY HOURS Jenny
- #6 JUST TELL HER Johnny
- #7 STARTS AND STOPS Instrumental
- #8 THE SCOOP Jenny
- #9 END OF THE WORLD Johnny
- ACT TWO
- #10 PLEASE DON’T GO Jenny
- #11 SNAKES Jenny
- #12 YOU ARE Johnny
- #13 JUST FOR THE MOMENT Johnny
- #14 “NEW SONG” Johnny
- #15 IT WAS ALWAYS US Johnny & Jenny
- #16 SAYING GOODYE? Johnny & Jenny
- #17 A NEW REFRAIN Johnny & Jenny
- SONG DEMOS: (Formerly titled TWO-HANDER)
Royalty negotiations will be directly with the authors through their company HANSEN-PERRY PRODUCTIONS