GOIN' HOLLYWOOD
A New Musical by Stephen Cole & David Krane
LONDON PREMIERE *14 & 15 September 2025 *
https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/goin-hollywood-f1rq
For Alice and Garson the Grass was a LOT Greener in 1948....
Then the Technicolor Started To Fade.
The Time Machine meets Singin’ In The Rain!
Got the 21st Century Blues?
Time to go back to the Golden Age of Hollywood!
GOIN' HOLLYWOOD is a modern day musical
that takes our heroes on a sci fi journey
through time and space where they learn that every time is the same.
THE PLOT
Then the Technicolor Started To Fade.
The Time Machine meets Singin’ In The Rain!
Got the 21st Century Blues?
Time to go back to the Golden Age of Hollywood!
GOIN' HOLLYWOOD is a modern day musical
that takes our heroes on a sci fi journey
through time and space where they learn that every time is the same.
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
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
Miriam-Teak Lee is ALICE CHANDLER
Zach Sorrow is GARSON STEIN
Oliver Savile is AJ ENGERMAN
May Tether is NANCY KARINSKI
Mark Oxtoby is LB MAYER
Adam Colbeck-Dunn is
WONDERLAD / WRITER
Zak Edwards is WONDERLAD / WRITER
Joaquin Pedro Valdes is
WONDERLAD / WRITER
Joseph Vella is WONDERLAD / WRITER
Frances Gilbert is MULTI-TALENTED and plays several characters!
Ruby Hewitt is also MULTI-TALENTED
and plays several characters!
Photo from the 2023 sold-out Dallas production
Stephen Cole and David Krane with Brian Hathaway & Alison Whitehurst in Dallas 2023