GOIN' HOLLYWOOD
A New Musical by Stephen Cole & David Krane
WORLD PREMIERE *July 19 - 30, 2023 *
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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
 BRIAN HATHAWAY as Garson
OUR CAST
BRIAN HATHAWAY is Garson Stein: A New York born, Jewish, Musical Theatre Composer, witty, fun and having trouble getting his musicals produced. ALISON WHITEHURST 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. COOPER GRODIN 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. JOCELYN HANSEN is Nancy Karinski, A quirky, funny, Communist MGM mail girl who has the hots for Garson. STAN GRANER is L.B. Mayer, legendary head of MGM studios. THE MGM WRITERS ANDREW NICOLAS - Goldfarb JARRETT SELF - Kessler ANTHONY J. ORTEGA - Schneider MICAH BROOKS - Lustig and the Conductor THE WONDERLADS MICHAEL ALONZO CARLOS GUTIERREZ JONAH MUNROE ANTHONY J. ORTEGA THE MAIL GIRLS TAYLOR NICOLE HADSELL MIKKI HANKINS MARY KIM IRELAND RENEAU |
ALISON WHITEHURST as Alice
COOPER GRODIN as A. J.
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JOCELYN HANSEN as Nancy
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