A Musical in 2 Acts and a Prologue. Book and lyrics by Jerry Colker. Music by Michael Rupert.
Music Box Theatre, Broadway - Opened 14th April, 1988; closed 14th May, 1988 (36 performances).
Synopsis
An unpublished writer, who has disappeared for four months, returns to his squalid apartment abd reads his Mail. As he reads, the writers, whether from debt collectors, bulk mail advertisers, his agentor his sweeyheart, come to life to act out the letter contents.
CAST (in order of appearance):
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Scenes and Settings
- Prologue: 6:00 A. M. one winter morning. A Manhattan apartment.
- Act 1: 11:15 P. M., four months later. The same apartment.
- Act 2: The same.
Musical Numbers
PROLOGUE
- Monolithic Madness - Alex
ACT 1
- Gone So Long - Radio Singer
- Hit the Ground Running - Dana, Alex
- It's Your Life - Assistants with Billy Ray
- Cookin' with Steam (Music by Brian Mitchell and Michael Rupert. Lyrics by Jerry Colker. Recorded track arranged and played by Brian Mitchell.) - Franklin
- It's Just a Question of Technique - Sandi, Alex
- It's None of My Business - Max
- Crazy World - Dana
- Ambivalent Rag - Alex
- It's Your Life II - Assistants with Billy Ray
- You Better Get Outta Town - Kathy Sue, Billy Ray, Life Executives
- We're Gonna Turn Off Your Juice - Power Lady, Kathy Sue, Radio Singer, Con Ed Men,
- The World Set on Fire by a Black and a Jew - Franklin, Alex
- Where Are You/Where Am I? - Dana
- Family Ties - Max
- One Lost Weekend - Sandi, Alex, Dana
- Junk Mail/Disconnected - Ensemble
- Helplessness at Midnight - Radio Singer
- What Have You Been Doing for the Past Ten Years? - Alex, Ensemble
- A Blank Piece of Paper - Alex
ACT 2
- Sweepstakes - Alex, Billy Ray, Pitchpeople
- It's Getting Harder to LoveYou - Dana, Pitchwomen
- Publish Your Book - Sandi, Alex, Pitchpeople
- Ambivalent Rag II - Alex
- Pages of My Diary - Dana, Alex, Pitchwomen
- One Step at a Time/Ambivalent Rag III - Alex, Pitchpeople
- Don't Count on It - Ellis, Alex
- Friends for Life - Franklin, Alex
- Twenty-Nine Years Ago - Max, Alex
- Crazy World (reprise) - Alex
- Sweepstakes (reprise) - Pitchpeople
- A Blank Piece of Paper (reprise) - Alex
- Crazy World (Finale) - Alex, Dana