A NEW MUSICAL MUSIC AND LYRICS BY STEPHEN RANDOY. BOOK BY MARTIN BLANK
Everyone has dreams, right? And we all know dreams always come true…except when they don’t. When you’re a couple it may complicate the choices we make to follow our dreams and if you’re dreams are about success in Hollywood, well, you’re on your own.
KATIE and BRAD, both soon to turn thirty, live in Cleveland. BRAD is a slacker with an obsession with comic books and KATIE is getting fed up with him and his lack of ambition and is dispirited by her dead end job.
“I want an ANGEL IN MY LIFE”
KATIE falls into a deep funk and decides she needs some fantasy character to pull her out of her sense of desperation.
BRAD is drawing on the only power he knows from his connection to his superhero friends
So they decide to make a BIG change.
They make the move to Hollywood California and discover that they are the same people here than they were back in Cleveland. Some urgent action is needed to push them forward into the future with if they are going to have some chance of SUCCESS!!
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. BRAD has managed to temp at the same place for a week with JANET NOTAR an entertainment agent who has managed to cut through the misogyny that is rampant in this town to have developed considerable power for herself as well as an eye for attractive young men who want to get ahead in the world.
JANET manages to get BRAD and KATIE an interview with MIKE ELLIS a successful television producer on the basis of a script they have submitted but BRAD manages to blow it with his inability to suppress his contempt for the dishonest practices of the industry. MIKE is developing a new series called PERFECT FOOLS and is looking for fresh young talent to hire but he discovers the rift between KATIE and BRAD and decides who’s side he is willing to take.
“ Are you sayingPERFECT FOOLS isn’t funny?”
“I saw an episode last night. When do I start laughing?”
“You think I care what you think of me?”
KATIE is left alone with MIKE and begins to develop an odd attraction to this powerful older man who is the opposite of her long term boyfriend, but not without considerable anxiety.
“I could really use you here, on the show.”
“Without Brad, I couldn’t”
“There are a lot of zeros on the end of a staff writer’s paycheck. Think it over.”
Back at their cheap little apartment, KATIE has been hired to write for PERFECT FOOLS which does not help the growing rift in the relationship between the two young lovers.
WILL KATIE LEAVE BRAD?
WILL BRAD GET A LIFE?
FIND OUT RIGHT AFTER INTERMISSION!
KATIE has moved in with MIKE and is contemplating her new life. However there is one image that will not leave her. A thought she cannot shake.
ACT II
BRAD is heartbroken about losing KATIE.
JANET gives him a pep talk and some subversive ideas.
MIKE with some regret reflects on the way he has lived his life and why he suddenly has a change of heart.
KATIE’S national television debut
THIS IS NBC!
BRAD is invited to MIKE’S Malibu Mansion for a possible job, but he leaves the room and BRAD makes his move on KATIE. He wants her back.
PERFECT FOOLS
“Come on. We’ll run for the door. He’ll never know…at least until his show is over.”
6 MONTHS LATER at a shopping mall. BRAD runs into KATIE who has married MIKE but has never totally gotten over her former boyfriend. They came out to LA together but it has instead split them apart. BRAD makes one more quiet confession with an impossible aim.
But they both found SUCCESS in HOLLYWOOD in spite of…well…whatever!
‘Nice guys won’t make it through, but we know that won’t happen to you!”
