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GOIN'  HOLLYWOOD 
​An Exclusive Demo of a New Musical by Stephen Cole & David Krane

THE PLOT
It’s Alice’s birthday, and Garson, her musical writing partner and sometimes lover,
takes her to lunch at the trendiest restaurant in Grand Central Station,
The Super Chief Dining Car. 

The restaurant is a perfect replica of the Super Chief Dining car of the train that took everyone out to Hollywood back in the Golden Age.  


Alice and Garson have always had one wish, to live back when movie musicals and MGM was at its hottest, and when Alice blows out her candles and makes her wish, the Super Chief Dining Car starts to move on a track, taking them cross country and back to Hollywood in 1949.

They are told by the conductor that their ticket is good for one year.


Once there, they get jobs at MGM, and find out that every era has its dangers and pitfalls as they encounter the decline of the studio system, sexism, anti-semitism, homophobia, and the Blacklist.

L.B. Mayer has them investigated and finds that they have no identity (as they’re from the future) and thinks they’re Commie spies.


Their year is up and they hot-foot it back home to their own time with a new understanding of who they are and where they are meant to be and that there is no time like the present.



The score is totally original, melodic, jazz-tinged with cool and catchy musical twists.


​(c) 2018 by Stephen Cole & David Krane





PictureSANTINO FONTANA as Garson
OUR CAST FOR THIS DEMO

​SANTINO FONTANA is Garson Stein: A New York born, Jewish, Musical Theatre Composer, witty, fun and having trouble getting his musicals produced.

JENN GAMBATESE is Alice Chandler: A strong willed, eccentric, lovely, non-Jewish, talented writer. A smart woman who has been around, but still has the charm to overcome the ambitious deeds that might paint her as unattractive. 

TONY YAZBECK is A.J. Engerman, Movie-star handsome, but also a very ambitious producer/director who knows how to crack the whip over employees and how to charm L.B. Mayer. Very sure of himself until he is named and has to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

LAURA DARRELL is Nancy Karinski, A quirky, funny, Communist MGM mail girl who has the hots for Garson.

STEPHEN COLE, (the author of this show)  is L.B. Mayer, legendary head of MGM studios.

THE MGM WRITERS

BILL NOLTE  -  Goldfarb
EDDIE KORBICH  - Kessler 
ADAM HELLER - Schneider
BRUCE WARREN - Lustig and the Conductor

THE WONDERLADS
BRUCE LANDRY
DANIEL PLIMPTON
TRIPP HAMPTON

THE MAIL GIRLS
ERIN RUBICO
MORGAN COWLING
ERIN LINDSEY KROM


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JENN GAMBATESE as Alice
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TONY YAZBECK as A. J.
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LAURA DARRELL as Nancy
THE SONGS

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For further information on "GOIN' HOLLYWOOD":
david@davidkrane.com,  stephencole2@aol.com
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