Book, Lyrics, and Music by Kevin Wong
Commissioned by the Musical Stage Company in 2023 as part of the Aubrey & Marla Dan Fund for New Musicals
Synopsis
Three brothers live together. The eldest, Kenneth, is a struggling staff lawyer at a not-for-profit while raising his younger brothers. Calvin is a morose and withdrawn young teen who spends all his time making cheesy pop music and dreaming of a pop star. Little DiDi is 7, and lives almost entirely in a fantasy world where he draws in the air and dreams of being a mermaid. They all have a useless magical ability: to conjure the images and sounds they imagine into the air. All three of them are trying to find a place for a soft magical boy in a hard, unmagical world.
Developmental History
Musical Stage Workshop #1
May, 2023
CAST
Chris Lam, Colin Asuncion, Rosie Simon, Stephanie Sy, Michelle Yu, Timothy Ng
CREATIVE
Director: Ray Hogg
Stage Manager: Joey Lau
Producing Company: The Musical Stage Company
Musical Stage Workshop #2
February, 2024
CAST
Jonathan Tan, Colin Asuncion, Alicia Ault, Kimmy Truong, Michelle Yu, Timothy Ng
CREATIVE
Director: Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster
Music Director: Adam Sakiyama
Stage Manager: Joey Lau
Producing Company: The Musical Stage Company
Copyist: Haneul Yi
Dramaturg: Britta Johnson
Story Consultant: Robert McQueen
O’Neill Workshop
July, 2024
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
National Musical Theatre Conference
CAST
Alex Tan, Major Curda, Samuel Li Weintraub, Sami Ma, El Beh, Jully Lee, Futaba Shioda
CREATIVE
Director: Mei Ann Teo
Music Director: Jason Liebson
Dramaturge: Annie Jin Wang
Script Coordinator/Literary Rep: Kayla Brooke
Music Assistant: Daniella Ignacio
Score Supervisor: Jason Belanger
Production Stage Manager: Kevin Zhu
Assistant Stage Manager: Dani Berman
Lighting designer: ry burke
Sound Designer: Ryan Hickey
Soundboard Operator: Brandon McDuff
Stage Directions: Ren Dara Santiago
NMTC Artistic Director: Alex Gemignani
Literary Manager: Helena Pennington
Artistic Associate: Rebecca Rovezzi
Line Producer: Jorge Rivera Lopez