New Line Theatre presents the world premiere Book, Music, and Lyrics by Scott Miller Original Orchestrations by John Gerdes Nov. 30-Dec. 16, 2023 Grandel Theatre, St. Louis http://www.newlinetheatre.com/hrfxpage.html Purchase the vocal selections here . Purchase the script here . Purchase JJHRFX and "Hoo-Hoo of Steel" merch here . SYNOPSIS It's 1959 and there's pot in the Christmas cookies. What could go wrong? What happens when a family’s secrets are all revealed on one outrageous, pot-fueled Christmas Eve in 1959? Poor Harry Goodson finds out, as he’s visited overnight by his dead brother Jerry, Jesus Christ, Sandra Dee, and Johnny Appleweed, and he finally learns what his family already knows, that the answer to all his problems is marijuana! A wacky, adult, companion piece to the unintentionally hilarious 1936 scare film Reefer Madness , this new musical is a tongue-in-cheek response to the War on
UNPRODUCED Book and Lyrics by Scott Miller & W.S. Gilbert Music by Arthur Sullivan & John Gerdes New Line Theatre presented a public reading, Jan. 6, 2020 at the Marcelle Theater, St. Louis http://www.newlinetheatre.com/oedipus-reading.html SYNOPSIS King Oedipus is already having a bad day, and here comes some REALLY bad news! All Oedipus wants is to lift the curse that's made his city sick, broke, and pissed off, but all these prophecies keep getting in the way. Could it be true that Oedipus killed the last king without realizing it? Is it possible he's married to his own mother? Does his name really mean "swollen foot"? Maybe Tiresias the Blind Seer knows the answers. But does Oedipus really want to know...? After shocking the music and theatre worlds by rediscovering Gilbert & Sullivan’s lost masterpiece The Zombies of Penzance in 2013, and then staging and publishing the controversial original opera, in 2018, now New Line Theatre artistic