“Sometimes, you have to get lost…
in order to find yourself.”
The writers with musical theater legend Stephen Schwartz at the 2015 ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop performance of City of Light.
SYNOPSIS
“City of Light” is the story of the practical, organized to a fault, list-making Molly. Exactly a year after her father died on her birthday, and one month before her wedding, Molly embarks on the trip to Paris he always wanted to take her on; but now it's to scatter his ashes from the Eiffel Tower. Nothing goes as she planned, and a new relationship challenges her in ways she’s never experienced, bringing her to major realizations about herself and the seemingly perfect life she left behind. With charming French-inspired music and lyrics, "City of Light" is a musical of self-discovery, friendship, romance and listening to your heart; proving that sometimes it helps to get a little bit lost in order to truly find yourself.
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
Produced as a “radio play” Podcast, — City of Light (a shortened version) is now available on The Micro-Musical Theatre Show, March 2018
Concert reading at 54 Below in NYC, directed by our first “Molly”, Autumn Reeser, September 27, 2018
Fundraising Concert “Noteworthy”, 15 minute set of COL songs in support of the SheNYC festival, GreenRoom 42, April 2018
Production, SheNYC Summer Theatre Festival, at the Connelly Theatre in NYC, directed by Tony winner, Cady Huffman. SRO for all three performances and voted the festival’s Best Score and Best Ensemble, July 2017
ASCAP’s annual Musical Theatre Workshop with Stephen Schwartz, concert presentation at Dreamworks (directed by Allison Bibicoff) for the likes of Stephen, Michael Kerker, Bill Damaschke, Susan Dietz and a theater full of producers and professionals, February 2015
Developmental Workshop Production, with John Sparks’ 4×10 Theatre Company‘s production, directed by Alison Kalmus, at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and NMI in Los Angeles, September thru October, 2014
Festival Concert Production, PlayFest Santa Barbara, full-length production, with talk back session afterwards, January, 2014
Staged Concert Reading, at the Colony Theatre in Burbank, produced by NMI and directed by Elise Dewsberry, December 2013
Staged Reading of our first draft, directed by Leslie Stevens, at New Musicals Inc., Los Angeles, June, 2013