Two Hander • A New Musical

Alternate title: “It Takes Two!” •• A musical about writing a Broadway Musical!

Music and Lyrics by C. Michael Perry

Once a successful writing couple of hit Broadway Musicals, Jenny and Johnny DePaul, divorced long ago over creative differences and parental conflicts over their newborn daughter. 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:
- (JENNY) JENNY DePAUL — 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 DePAUL – 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 and A SUITE AT THE WALDORF Johnny & Jenny
- #2 IT’S YOU? Johnny & Jenny
- #3 JUST KEEP IT AT THAT Johnny & Jenny
- #4 WE NEED A SONG LIKE THIS Johnny & Jenny
- #5 TOO MANY HOURS
- #6 ONCE IN A WHILE Johnny
- #7 ALL MY LIFE Jenny
- #8a SOMEONE ELSE? Jenny
- #8b I NEED HER Johnny
ACT TWO
- #9 WHAT DO WE DO NOW? Johnny & Jenny
- #10 END OF THE WORLD Johnny
- #11 EMPTY Johnny & Jenny
- #12 THE LITTLEST THINGS Johnny & Jenny
- #13 I’VE LOST HER Johnny
- #14 IT WAS ALWAYS US Johnny & Jenny
- #15 HOW COULD WE THINK OF SAYING GOODYE? Johnny & Jenny
- #16 A NEW REFRAIN Johnny & Jenny