PRO Catalog 23-24

These are undeniably trying times for our beloved industry. It is with a profound sense of responsibility and optimism that we present to you our latest catalog. In crafting this selection, we have been acutely aware of the financial constraints and uncertainties that weigh heavily on you, our partners. Therefore, we have made it our mission to provide you with a range of titles that not only inspire creativity but also alleviate some of the financial burdens you may be facing.

This year, our catalog predominantly features titles with small casts, easy production requirements, and/or a proven track record of box office success. These selections offer both artistic excellence and fiscal prudence, and we will help you navigate the current landscape with confidence.

Some highlights: Rajiv Joseph’s King James, which follows the friendship of two men over the course of LeBron James’s career with the Cleveland Cavaliers. For comic relief, we have the latest laugh-out-loud Broadway farce by Clue writer Sandy Rustin, The Cottage. In addition, Diary of a Wimpy Kid is the long-awaited, fun-filled family musical, based on Jeff Kinney’s best-selling book series.

This season, we remain in steadfast support of the phenomenal legacies inspired by your institutions, our bright future ahead together, and the enduring spirit and unwavering necessity of professional theatre. Here’s to a season of resilience, growth, and hope.

Warm regards,

Sean Cercone, Founder & CEO Broadway Licensing Global

PROFESSIONAL CATALOG

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover Photo: Head Over Heels

Photo by Pamela Raith

FEATURED MUSICALS

Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville (Actors’ Playhouse)

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A Bronx Tale, The Musical

Book by Chazz Palminteri, Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Glenn Slater, Based on the Play by Chazz Palminteri

Based on the acclaimed play that inspired the film, a young man from the Bronx is caught between the father he loves and the mob boss he’d love to be. Featuring a book by Oscar nominee Chazz Palminteri, music by EGOT winner Alan Menken, and lyrics by Grammy winner and Oscar and Tony Award® nominee Glenn Slater, A Bronx Tale, The Musical is a story about respect, loyalty, love, and above all else, family.

Roles: 2W, 5M, Ensemble | Musicians: 12 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes

Production Resources Keyboard Patch Design by KeyboardTEK

Bat Boy: The Musical

Story and Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming, Music and Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe, Licensed under agreement with Weekly World News

Based on a story in Weekly World News. From cave to suburb, a half boy, half bat’s hilarious journey challenges narrow-mindedness in Hope Falls, West Virginia.

Roles: 2W, 6M, Ensemble |

Musicians: 5 | Acts: 2 | Duration: 2 hours

Production Resources Keyboard Patch Design by KeyboardTEK

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After Midnight

Conceived by Jack Viertel

Welcome back to that electrifying time when Harlem’s Cotton Club was the place to be! Combining the big-band songs of Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields, Harold Arlen, and more, After Midnight celebrates Duke Ellington’s years at the infamous nightclub, framed by the poetry of Langston Hughes. The smash-hit musical won the 2014 Tony Award®, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Astaire Award for Best Choreography. Also available: Small Cast Edition

Roles: 11W, 14M, Ensemble |

Duration: 90 minutes

Musicians: 16 | Acts: 1 |

The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Kirsten Childs

What’s a Black girl to do? It’s the 1960s and white people are blowing up Black girls in Birmingham churches. Black people are shouting “Black is beautiful” while straightening their hair and coveting light skin. Viveca Stanton’s answer: Slap on a bubbly smile and be as white as you can be! In this humorous coming-of-age story, Viveca blithely sails through this confusing world until she’s forced to face the effects self-denial.

Roles: 6W, 5M, Ensemble | FLEX |

Musicians: 5 | Acts: 1 |

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Duration: 90 minutes

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Chaplin: The Musical

Music and Lyrics by Christopher Curtis

Book by Christopher Curtis and Thomas

Meehan

Based on the real-life story of Charlie Chaplin, Chaplin: The Musical follows the comic’s rise to fame, from his first performance in nineteenth-century London to his tearful acceptance of an honorary Academy Award in 1972. Featuring an original score by Christopher Curtis, the musical dramatizes the artist’s turbulent childhood, frenzied love life, and the making of legendary films like The Kid, The Circus, Modern Times, and The Great Dictator

Roles: 5W, 6M, Ensemble | Musicians: 15/10 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes

Production Resources Keyboard Patch Design by KeyboardTEK

The Cher Show

Book by Rick Elice

The Cher Show is the Tony Award®-winning musical based on the life of Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere Bono Allman, or as her friends call her, Cher! Follow the megastar as she reinvents herself again and again, from a kid on a tricycle vowing to be famous to a teenage phenom who crashes by twenty, to a rock goddess with a hundred million records sold. Wife, mother, sister, friend. They’re all here, dressed to kill and telling it like it is. Three Chers—one legend—star in this glamorous new musical featuring all of your favorite hits from the singer’s six-decade career.

Roles: 4W, 4M | Musicians: 14 | Acts: 2 |

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Duration: 2 hours 40 minutes

Production Resources Keyboard Patch Design by KeyboardTEK

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Crowns

By Regina Taylor, Adapted from the book

Roles: 6W, 1M |

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Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry

A celebratory musical play in which hats launch an exploration of Black history and identity, through the eyes of a young Black woman who moves to the South after her brother is killed in Brooklyn. Hats are everywhere, for every occasion, and with deep historical and social function. Initially at odds with Southern tradition, the young woman comes to embrace hats and their cultural significance as part of her own fiercely independent identity.

Musicians: 2 | Acts: 1 |

Duration: 70 minutes

Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical

Created by Jordan Ross, Lindsey Rosin, and Roger Kumble, Based on the film by Roger Kumble

Sebastian and Kathryn, rulers of their elite Manhattan prep school, have made a mischievous bet: Can Sebastian successfully deflower Annette Hargrove, the headmaster’s innocent daughter? As their vengeful crusade wreaks havoc on the students at Manchester Prep, the two devilish stepsiblings become entangled in their own web of deception in this raucous throwback featuring all your favorite hits of the nineties.

Roles: 5W, 5M, Ensemble | Musicians: 4 | Acts: 2 | Duration: 2 hours

Production Resources Keyboard Patch Design by KeyboardTEK

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Diana

Book and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro

Music and Lyrics by David Bryan

It’s 1981, and the world is hungry for a royal wedding—but is the twenty-year-old bride prepared for what comes after her fairy-tale union? Princess Diana faces a distant husband, an unmovable monarchy, and overwhelming media scrutiny. But her modern perspective and remarkable compassion galvanize a nation, even as they threaten the royal family’s hold on England.

Roles: 5W, 8M, Ensemble |

Musicians: 8 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes

Production Resources Show Ready & Stage Tracks by ROCS

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Book by Kevin del Aguila, Music and Lyrics by Michael Mahler and Alan Schmuckler

Based on the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book Series by Jeff Kinney and the 20th Century Fox Films

Jeff Kinney’s popular character takes center stage as Greg’s cartoon diary becomes a hilarious and heartfelt musical. Will Greg’s plans to become popular lead him to sacrifice his one true friend? Can anyone avoid the dreaded Cheese Touch? Grab a hall pass and don’t be late for an adventure familiar to anyone who actually survived middle school.

Roles: 9W, 14M, Ensemble | Musicians: 5 | Acts: 2 |

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Duration: 2 hours

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Disenchanted!

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Dennis T . Giacino, Developed with Fiely Matias

Poisoned apples. Glass slippers. Who needs ’em?! Not Snow White and her posse of disenchanted princesses in the hilarious hit musical that’s anything but Grimm. The original storybook heroines are none too happy with the way they’ve been portrayed in today’s pop culture, so they’ve tossed their tiaras and come to life to set the record straight. Forget the princesses you think you know—these royal renegades are here to comically belt out the truth.

Roles: 6-10W, Ensemble | Musicians: 3 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes

Production Resources Show Ready & Stage Tracks by ROCS

The Great American Trailer Park Musical

Music and Lyrics by David Nehls, Book by Betsy Kelso

There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres— and she’s wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil–loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her toll -collector husband, a storm begins to brew.

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Roles: 5W | FLEX | Musicians: 4 | Acts: 1 or 2

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Duration: 100 minutes

Production Resources Keyboard Patch Design by KeyboardTEK

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Hank Williams: Lost Highway

By Randal Myler and Mark Harelik

Hank Williams: Lost Highway is the musical biography of the legendary singer-songwriter and one of the great innovators of American popular music. The play follows Williams’s rise from his beginnings on the Louisiana Hayride to his triumphs at the Grand Ole Opry to his eventual self-destruction at twenty-nine. Along the way, we are treated to indelible songs like “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” “Move It on Over,” and “Hey, Good Lookin’,” which are given fresh and profound resonance in the context of Williams’s life.

Musicians: 5 | Acts: 2 | Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes

Head Over Heels

Songs by The Go-Go’s, Based on The Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney, Conceived and Original Book by Jeff Whitty, Adapted by James Magruder

Head Over Heels is a laugh-out-loud love story set to the music of iconic 1980s all-female rock band the Go-Go’s, including the hit songs “We Got the Beat,” ”Vacation,” Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven Is a Place on Earth,” and more. An exuberant celebration, Head Over Heels follows the escapades of a royal family on a journey to save their kingdom from extinction—only to discover the key to survival lies within their own hearts.

BL Roles: 4W, 3M, 1 Any, Ensemble | Musicians: 5 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes

Production Resources Keyboard Patch Design by KeyboardTEK, Show Ready & Stage Tracks by ROCS

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Honky Tonk Angels

By Ted Swindley

When three gutsy gals from different backgrounds take charge of their lives, they decide to follow their honky-tonk dreams all the way to the city of Nashville. Combining thirty classic country tunes, including “Stand By Your Man,” “9 to 5,” and “Harper Valley PTA,” Honky Tonk Angels is a hilarious, foot-stomping good time.

Also available: Ted Swindley’s Honky Tonk Angels Holiday Spectacular.

Musicians: 6 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 2 hours

Honky Tonk Laundry

Written by Roger Bean

Music Arrangements by Jon Newton

When Lana Mae Hopkins, owner of the Wishy Washy Washateria, hires Katie to help out in the laundromat, they soon find themselves up to their elbows in soap, suds, and cheatin’ hearts. Watch these two country angels join forces to turn their good ol’ laundromat into a boot-scootin’ honky-tonk and exact a touch of revenge, all while guaranteeing every customer a good, clean time! Featuring the music of Carrie Underwood, Trisha Yearwood, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, and more iconic country divas!

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Musicians: 6 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes

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Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville

Book by Greg Garcia and Mike O’Malley, Music and Lyrics by Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville is a musical comedy featuring beloved Jimmy Buffett classics like “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” “Margaritaville,” “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” “Fins,” “Volcano,” and more. With a book by Emmy winner Greg Garcia (My Name Is Earl, Raising Hope) and Emmy nominee Mike O’Malley (Survivor’s Remorse, Shameless), this hilarious, heartwarming musical is the party you’ve been waiting for!

Roles: 3W, 3M, Ensemble |

Musicians: 9 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes

Production Resources Keyboard Patch Design by KeyboardTEK, Show Ready & Stage Tracks by ROCS

Little House on the Prairie

Book by Rachel Sheinkin, Music by Rachel Portman, Lyrics by Donna Di Novelli, Based on the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder

This heartwarming musical tracks the Ingalls family’s journey westward to De Smet, South Dakota, where Ma and Pa hope to make a better life for their children. In story, song, and dance, we see the Ingalls weather the hardships of life on the prairie and follow Laura as she grows from a wild child into a woman who embraces the responsibilities of adulthood.

Roles: 13W, 10M, Ensemble |

Musicians: 10 | Acts: 2 |

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Duration: 2 hours

Production Resources Show Ready & Stage Tracks by ROCS

Passing Strange

Book and Lyrics by Stew, Music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald, Created in Collaboration with Annie Dorsen

From singer-songwriter and performance artist Stew comes Passing Strange, a daring musical that follows a young bohemian who seeks “the real” through sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. Loaded with soulful lyrics and overflowing with passion, the show takes us from Black middle-class America to Amsterdam, Berlin, and beyond on a journey toward personal and artistic authenticity.

BL Roles: 3W, 4M | Musicians: 4 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes

Production Resources Keyboard Patch Design by KeyboardTEK

Ride the Cyclone

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell

In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each student to tell a story and win a prize like no other—the chance to return to life. This popular musical is a funny, moving look at what makes a life well lived!

BL Roles: 3W, 4M | Musicians: 5 | Acts: 1 |

Duration: 90 minutes

Keyboard Patch Design by KeyboardTEK, Show Ready & Stage Tracks by ROCS

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Saturday Night Fever The Musical

Based on the Paramount/RSO Film and the story by Nik Cohn, Adapted for the stage by Robert Stigwood in collaboration with Bill Oaks, North American version written by Sean Cercone and David Abbinanti, Featuring songs by The Bee Gees, Arrangements and orchestrations by David Abbinanti

Featuring classic disco tracks, this reimagined version of Saturday Night Fever follows duo Tony and Stephanie as their dance partnership blossoms into a friendship.

Roles: 6W, 7M, 1 Any, Ensemble |

Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes

Musicians: 10 | Acts: 2 |

Production Resources Keyboard Patch Design by KeyboardTEK, Show Ready & Stage Tracks by ROCS

Summer: The Donna Summer Musical

Book by Colman Domingo, Robert Cary, and Des McAnuff, Songs by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and Paul Jabara

She was a girl from Boston with a voice from heaven; her talent propelled her from gospel choir to dance floor. But what the world didn’t know was how Donna Summer risked it all to break through barriers, becoming the icon of an era and the inspiration for every music diva who followed. Spend the night with Donna in her electrifying universe!

Roles: 6W, 3M, Ensemble |

Duration: 105 minutes

Musicians: 5 | Acts: 1 |

Production Resources Keyboard Patch Design by KeyboardTEK, Show Ready & Stage Tracks by ROCS

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SMALL CAST MUSICALS

A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Ben

Fankhauser and Alex Wyse

Two nobodies dream of writing one hit song, but their day job composing jingles for commercials isn’t the big break they hoped for. That is, until they’re plucked from obscurity by a world-famous pop star named Regina Comet, and she wants them to create an anthem for her supernova pipes . . . and her new perfume. They’re so close to the big time that they can smell it, but following your passion doesn’t always lead where you expect.

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Duration: 90 minutes

Photo: LIZZIE (Firebrand Theatre, photo by Marisa KM)

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Desperate Measures

Book and Lyrics by Peter Kellogg, Music by David Friedman

When the dangerously handsome Johnny Blood’s life is on the line, he must put his fate into the hands of a colorful cast of characters, including a mysterious sheriff, an eccentric priest, a narcissistic governor, a saloon girl gone good, and a nun out of the habit. Together, they face uncharted territory as laws are broken and hearts are won. Before the sun sets, will they be able to rise up and pull off the greatest act yet, or will Johnny be left hanging? A witty and wild new musical comedy inspired by the Bard’s Measure for Measure.

Musicians: 4 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Text

by

John Cameron Mitchell

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Trask

This groundbreaking musical that took Broadway by storm in its Tony Award®winning 2014 revival tells the story of “internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt, an East German rock ‘n’ roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation. This outrageous and unexpectedly hilarious story is dazzlingly performed by Hedwig in the form of a rock gig/stand-up comedy routine backed by a hard-rocking band.

Musicians: 4 | Acts: 1 |

Duration: 90 Minutes

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Hundred Days

Book by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher, Music and Lyrics by The Bengsons

Hundred Days is an exhilarating and heartrending true story about embracing uncertainty, taking a leap, and loving as if you only had one hundred days to live. With magnetic chemistry and anthemic folk-punk music, creators Abigail and Shaun Bengson explore a fundamental question: How do we make the most of the time that we have?

Duration: 90 minutes

In the Green

A new musical by Grace McLean

As a young girl, the medieval saint, healer, and composer Hildegard von Bingen was locked in a cloister’s cell after demonstrating a preternatural sensitivity to the world around her. Sequestered with her is Jutta, a woman who has spent her life in seclusion, trying to recover her whole self after deep trauma. Jutta proselytizes a rejection of brokenness that inspires Hildegard to reassemble her own fragmented self. In the Green is a sonically sophisticated saga of two women broken by the world and how their journey of healing changed history.

Duration: 90 minutes

BL Roles: 1W, 1M | Musicians: Flexible | Acts: 1 |

BL Roles: 5W | Musicians: 4 | Acts: 1|

LIZZIE

Music by Steven Cheslik-deMeyer and Alan Stevens Hewitt, Lyrics by Steven Cheslik-deMeyer and Tim Maner, Book by Tim Maner, Additional Music by Tim Maner, Additional Lyrics by Alan Stevens Hewitt, Based on an original concept by Alan Stevens Hewitt, Orchestrations by Alan Stevens Hewitt

Rage! Sex! Betrayal! Bloody murder! Using a searing rock score, LIZZIE explores the heady and heated days leading up to the Bordens’ murder, Lizzie’s controversial acquittal of all charges, and the creation of a new American myth.

Roles: 4W | Musicians: 6 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

The Marvelous Wonderettes

Written and Created by Roger Bean, Musical Arrangements by Brian William Baker, Orchestrations by Michael Borth, Vocal Arrangements by Roger Bean and Brian William Baker

This smash Off-Broadway hit takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom, where we meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy, four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts! As we learn about their lives and loves, the girls serenade us with classic fifties hits, including “Lollipop,” “Dream Lover,” “Stupid Cupid,” and more.

Roles: 4W | Musicians: 5 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes

Othello: The Remix

Book and Music by Q Brothers (GQ and JQ), Developed with Rick Boynton

Othello is spun out and lyrically rewritten over new, innovative beats in this high-energy take on Shakespeare’s classic that proves the Bard himself was the original master of rhythm and rhyme.

Roles: 4M |

Musicians: 0 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Sh-Boom! Life Could Be a Dream

Written and Created by Roger Bean, Musical Arrangements by Roger Bean, Michael Borth, Jon Newton, and Steve Parsons

Meet Denny and the Dreamers, a doo-wop singing group preparing to enter the Big Whopper Radio contest to make it to the big time! Trouble comes in the form of Lois, who arrives to put some polish on the boys. Denny falls in love, Wally falls in line, Eugene falls apart, and along comes heartthrob

Duke to send the whole situation spinning.

Also by Roger Bean: Route 66

Musicians: 8 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes

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HOLIDAY MUSICALS

All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914

Written by Peter Rothstein, Vocal Arrangements by Erick Lichte and Timothy C . Takach

Out of the violence of World War I, a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into noman’s-land singing “Stille Nacht.” Thus begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, music, and peace. An a cappella chorale, All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 is a remarkable true story, told in the words and songs of the men who lived it.

Roles: 10 Any, Ensemble |

Duration: 80 minutes

Musicians: 0 | Acts: 1 |

Photo: Christmas in Connecticut (Goodspeed - photo by Lawrence E. Moten III)

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: The Musical

Book and Lyrics by Jahnna Beecham, Music and Lyrics by Malcolm Hillgartner, Based on the Play by Barbara Robinson

The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world, so when they demand parts in the Christmas pageant, the town panics. It’s up to the Bradleys and the Reverend to help their community see the Christmas story and the Herdman kids through new eyes in this buoyant musical adaptation of the funny and touching holiday classic.

Roles: 10W, 9M | Musicians: 5 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Production Resources Show Ready & Stage Tracks by ROCS

Christmas in Connecticut

Book by Patrick Pacheco and Erik Forrest Jackson, Music by Jason Howland, Lyrics by Amanda Yesnowitz, Based upon the Warner Brothers Picture

Smart Housekeeping columnist Liz Lane, a famous expert on marriage, cooking, and homemaking, is asked by her publisher to host a war hero for Christmas dinner at her renowned Connecticut farmhouse. The only problem? She can’t cook, she isn’t married, and she lives in a tiny New York apartment. Based on the classic 1945 Warner Brothers film, this musical comedy is a delightfully cheerful way to celebrate the holiday season!

Coming soon!

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The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical

Music and Lyrics by David Nehls, Book by Betsy Kelso

It’s holiday time down in Armadillo Acres (North Florida’s premier mobile-living community), and everyone’s filled with warmth and beer. But when a freak bout of amnesia strikes the trailer-park Scrooge, neighborly love is put to the test. Watch as Betty, Lin, and Pickles jingle all the way with some new neighbors in an all-new, all-trailer-park musical!

Roles: 4W, 2M | FLEX | Musicians: 4 | Acts: 2 |

Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes

Winter Wonderettes

Written and Created by Roger Bean, Vocal Arrangements by Roger Bean and Brian Baker, Musical Arrangements by Brian Baker

This seasonal celebration finds the girls entertaining at the annual Harper’s Hardware Holiday Happening. When Santa turns up missing, the girls use their talent and creative ingenuity to save the holiday party! Featuring great sixties versions of holiday classics such as “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,” “Jingle Bell Rock,” “Run, Rudolph, Run,” and “Winter Wonderland,” the result is, of course, marvelous!

BL Roles: 4W | Musicians: 5 | Acts: 2 |Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes

TYA MUSICALS

On the Wings of a Mariposa

By Alvaro Saar Rios, Based on Ghost Wings by Barbara Joosse, Music and Lyrics by Dinorah Márquez Abadiano

After her abuelita dies, ten-year-old Pilar uses an old shawl that smells like her grandmother to help her remember their adventures together. But as the shawl’s scent fades, so too do Pilar’s memories. Once it’s gone, will she lose her grandmother forever? This play with music is a true celebration of life and bursts at the seams with warm memories and joy.

Roles: 4W, 1M, 5 Any | FLEX |

Musicians: 0 | Acts: 1 |

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Duration: 70 minutes

Photo: On the Wings of a Mariposa (First Stage, photo by Paul Ruffolo)

The Perfect Dog

Music and Lyrics by David Abbinanti, Book by Jill Abbinanti-Burke, Inspired by the book The Perfect Dog by John O’Hurley

Inspired by The New York Times best-selling author John O’Hurley’s book The Perfect Dog, Sam, a twelve-year-old perfectionist, searches for a flawless dog to enter in the town’s dog contest. Unable to find a canine that measures up, Sam must resort to training the family dog, Max, who is less than eager to obey commands. In the end, Sam and Max learn that there is no such thing as perfect, but there is such a thing as being perfect for each other.

Roles: 7 Any |

Musicians: 1 | Acts: 1 |

Duration: 60 minutes

The Snow Queen

Book by Kirsten Brandt and Rick Lombardo, Music by Haddon Kime, Lyrics by Kirsten Brandt, Haddon Kime, and Rick Lombardo, Additional Music by Rick Lombardo

Embark on a whimsical quest with Gerda to save her friend from the Snow Queen’s palace in this enchanting musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s beloved tale.

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Musicians: 1 | Acts: 1 |

Duration: 60 minutes

PLAYS

Photo: King James (photo by Michael Brosilow)

Pictured: Glenn Davis and Chris Perfetti

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COMEDIES

Buyer & Cellar

By Jonathan Tolins

Roles: 1M | Alex More, a struggling actor in LA, takes a job working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar. He seems to develop a real bond with the Lady Herself, but will their relationship ever make it upstairs? An outrageous comedy about fame, money, and the oddest of odd jobs.

Chicken & Biscuits

By Douglas Lyons

Roles: 5W, 3M | Can rival sisters Baneatta and Beverly bury their father without killing each other? Unlikely with this family. But when a shocking family secret reveals itself at the pulpit, the sisters are faced with a truth that could either heal or break their relationship.

Photo: The Cottage (photo by Joan Marcus)

Clyde’s

By Lynn Nottage

Roles: 2W, 3M | A truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the callous owner tries to keep them down, the staff members learn to reclaim their lives through their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.

The Cottage

By Sandy Rustin

Roles: 3W, 3M | With a tip of the hat to Noel Coward and sex comedies of the past, The Cottage offers endless laughs, hilarious twists, daring physical comedy, and a happy ending for lovers everywhere.

Crocodile Day

By P .C . Verrone

Roles: 2W, 1M, 3 Any | FLEX | In this reimagining of Peter Pan from the perspective of Neverland’s Indigenous tribe, twins Tho and Satesan are tasked with summoning Crocodile to a celebration. But when things spiral out of control, they must find the strength to overcome their doubts and tell their own story.

Epiphany

By Brian Watkins

Roles: 9 Any| On a snowy January night, Morkan invites her friends to celebrate a forgotten tradition: Epiphany. As the night wears on, questions both big and small start to weigh on her guests’ minds: What is the best way to spend one’s time on this earth? And why is this night so important to the hostess?

Exception to the Rule

By Dave Harris

Roles: 3W, 3M | How do you make it through detention? In the worst high school in the city, six Black students are stuck in Room 111. They flirt. They fight. Should they follow the rules and stay put, or find an escape? Are the walls keeping them in, or are stronger forces at play?

Fireflies

By Matthew Barber, From the novel

Eleanor

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Abel

by Annette Sanford

Roles: 2W, 2M | Retired schoolteacher Eleanor Bannister lives a quiet life alone in tiny Groverdell, Texas, until a hole in her roof draws the attention of Abel Brown, a smooth-talking drifter intent on renovating Eleanor’s house. Can the unexpected sparks of late-life romance be trusted?

The Garbologists

By Lindsay Joelle

Roles: 1W, 1M | An unconventional buddy comedy that follows first-time sanitation worker Marlowe and lifer Danny in the cab of a nineteen-ton garbage truck in New York City. Tasked with picking up what the world has discarded, they learn that some things are easier to toss than others.

Grand Horizons

By Bess Wohl

Roles: 3W, 4M | Fifty years into their marriage, Bill and Nancy want a divorce. Their two adult sons are shaken to the core. Now, the family must reckon with their imperfect pasts and how their love for each other might express itself in new and unlikely forms.

Hangmen

By Martin McDonagh

Roles: 2W, 10M | It’s 1965 and the death penalty has just been abolished in the UK, leaving Harry, the second-best hangman in the country, out of commission. As the news breaks, Harry’s pub is overrun with reporters, until a visitor arrives with a darker and more mysterious agenda.

The Hot Wing King

By Katori Hall

Roles: 6M | It’s time for the annual “Hot Wang Festival” in Memphis, Tennessee, and Cordell Crutchfield knows he has the wings that’ll make him king. When his beau Dwayne takes in his troubled nephew, however, a first-place trophy isn’t the only thing Cordell risks losing.

John Proctor Is the Villain

By Kimberly Belflower

Roles: 6W, 3M | At a rural high school in Georgia, a group of lively teens are studying The Crucible while navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. Examining the classic play through a contemporary lens, they start to wonder who the hero really is.

King James

By Rajiv Joseph

Roles: 2M | “King” LeBron James’s years playing in Cleveland brings promise, prosperity, and renewal to a city. It also unites two unlikely friends in a bond forged by fandom. This clever and fast-paced comedy is an intimate exploration of the place that sports occupy in our lives and relationships.

The Lifespan of a Fact

By Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell, Based on the book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal

Roles: 1W, 2M | A fact-checker for a magazine is assigned to fact check an essay about the suicide of a teenage boy. While the essay could save the publication from going under, a comedic head-to-head yet gripping battle begins over fact versus truth.

Merry Wives

By William Shakespeare, Adapted by Jocelyn Bioh

Roles: 5W, 7M | Set in the West African neighborhood in South Harlem and adaptable to your city, Merry Wives is a New York story about tricks of the heart. This hilarious farce follows trickster Falstaff and the wily wives who outwit him in a celebration of Black joy, laughter, and vitality.

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“Touching . Powerful . Intensely watchable . ”

— The New York Times

The Outsider

By Paul Slade Smith

Roles: 3W, 4M | Ned Newley is terrified of public speaking, has impressively bad poll numbers, and doesn’t even want to be governor. But political consultant Arthur Vance sees things differently. A timely and hilarious comedy that skewers politics and celebrates democracy.

Poor Clare

By Chiara Atik

Roles: 5W, 1M | Clare is rich, but that isn’t her fault right? Based on the story of St. Clare of Assisi, Poor Clare is about opening your eyes to the injustice of the world around you.

The Real Thing

By Tom Stoppard

Roles: 3W, 4M | Henry is a playwright who, although married to his leading lady Charlotte, is madly in love with another actress. As Henry navigates his personal and creative passions, the line between truth and fiction is blurred in this devastating portrait of love, performance, and the “real thing.”

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

By Tom Stoppard

Roles: 2W, 14M | This Laurel and Hardy pair from Hamlet finally get a chance to take center stage but discover their fates still lead to an inevitable end.

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By Charly Evon Simpson

Roles: 3W, 1M | Angela and Odessa are on a sandy search for something that might not be real, but they are determined to find their way out. They decide to follow the lead of celebrity-turned-wellness-maven Adah, not knowing that the journey could very well be the cure.

The Suffragette’s Murder

By Sandy Rustin

Roles: 4W, 5M| While preparing to host a gathering for the women’s suffrage movement, a couple receives news that one of their tenants has been murdered. Hilarious hijinks ensue as everyone bands together to protect their involvement in the suffrage movement and solve the murder at hand.

Tambo & Bones

By Dave Harris

Roles: 2M | Tambo and Bones are two characters trapped in a minstrel show. Their escape plan: get out, get bank, get even. A rags-to-riches hip-hop journey that roasts America’s racist past, wrestles with America’s racist present, and explodes America’s “post-racial” future.

Usual Girls

By Ming Peiffer

Roles: 7W, 2M | Kyeoung has spent her entire life negotiating the double standards imposed on her as an Asian American woman. As we trace Kyeoung from the insecurity of puberty to the disenchantment of her adult life, Usual Girls chronicles the wonder, pain, and complexity of growing up female.

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Blues for an Alabama Sky

By Pearl Cleage

Roles: 2W, 3M | Set in 1930s Harlem, the creative euphoria of the Harlem Renaissance has given way to the harsher realities of the Great Depression. For Guy and his community, they must learn “to look beyond 125th Street” to fulfill their dreams.

Describe the Night

By Rajiv Joseph

Roles: 3W, 4M | Set in Russia over the course of ninety years, this thrilling and epic play traces the stories of seven men and women connected by history, myth, and conspiracy theories.

The Father: A Tragic Farce

By Florian Zeller, Translated

by Christopher Hampton

Roles: 3W, 3M | Now eighty years old, André was once a tap dancer. He lives with his daughter, Anne, and her husband, Antoine. The thing is, he is still wearing his pajamas, and he can’t find his watch. He is starting to wonder if he’s losing control. Companion play: The Mother

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The Half-Life of Marie Curie

By Lauren Gunderson

Roles: 2W | Despite winning the Nobel Prize, Marie Curie was the object of ruthless gossip in 1912, all but erasing her achievements from public memory. Marie turns to her colleague Hertha Ayrton for friendship — a fellow mother, widow, and champion of scientific inquiry.

Leopoldstadt

By Tom Stoppard

Roles: 15W, 14M (Doubling) | Set in Vienna, this passionate drama of love and endurance begins in the last days of 1899 and follows one extended Jewish family deep into the heart of the 20th century.

LUCY

By Erica Schmidt

Roles: 2W, 1 Girl | With single mom Mary’s next baby due any day now, she hires the impressive Ashling as her nanny, and it’s almost too good to be true. This new comedic thriller dives into parenthood, trust, and what it means to let a stranger into your home.

Marys Seacole

By Jackie Sibblies Drury

Roles: 6W | Born in 1805 Jamaica, Mary Seacole is determined to live an extraordinary life. But as her brazen spirit meets historical reality, Mary’s world explodes and multiplies. Based on the life of the famous nurse, Marys Seacole is an examination of what it means to be a woman paid to care.

Morning Sun

By Simon Stephens

Roles: 3W | In Greenwich Village a generation or so ago, the city is alive. Told over the span of fifty years, one woman’s life is revealed in all its complexity, mystery, and possibility in this enthralling piece about mothers and daughters.

Thoughts of a Colored Man

By Keenan Scott II

Roles: 7M | Dawn breaks in Brooklyn, and seven Black men rise to meet the day. Through the storytelling style of SLAM Narrative, Thoughts of a Colored Man celebrates the hopes, ambitions, joys, and triumphs of Black men in a world that often refuses to hear them.

The Wanderers

By Anna Ziegler

Roles: 3W, 2M | Two marriages with seemingly little in common: Esther and Schmuli are Orthodox Jews navigating strict rules, while Sophie and Abe are secular and unrestrained. But both couples are growing apart as they strive to balance their identities with the families they created.

Where the Mountain Meets the Sea

By Jeff Augustin, Music by The Bengsons

Roles: 2M + Band | Jean, a Haitian immigrant, takes a once-ina-lifetime cross country road trip that his son, Jonah, mirrors in the wake of his death. With lyrical storytelling and live music, this play vividly imagines how a father and son who longed to connect might come to see each other at last.

HOLIDAY PLAYS

A Sherlock Carol

By Mark Shanahan

Roles: 2W, 4M | FLEX | Moriarty is dead, to begin with. And Sherlock Holmes is a haunted man. But when a grown-up Tiny Tim asks Holmes to investigate the death of Ebenezer Scrooge, the Great Detective must use his gifts to solve a Dickens of a Christmas mystery!

Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big [Your Town Here] Christmas Show!

By Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen

Roles: 5 Any | A gut-busting, fun, and family-friendly experience that incorporates the details of your own theatre into the script. Take a spin with Ebenezer, all three Ghosts, Tiny Tim, and more in this music-filled show.

Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley

By Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon

Roles: 6W, 3M | Georgiana Darcy and Kitty Bennet are ready for their own adventures in life and love, starting with the arrival of an admirer and secret correspondent. The final installment in the Christmas at Pemberley trilogy (Miss Bennet; The Wickhams) filled with music, ambition, sisterhood, and love!

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It’s a Wonderful Life: Live Radio Play

Adapted by Joe Landry, It’s a Wonderful Life is based on the story The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern

Roles: 2W, 3M | FLEX | This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve.

The Twelve Dates of Christmas

By Ginna Hoben

Roles: 1W | After seeing her fiancé kiss another woman at the televised Thanksgiving Day Parade, Mary’s life falls apart. Over the next year, she stumbles back into the dating world, until the charm and innocence of a five-year-old boy unexpectedly gives her a new outlook on love.