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Ordinary Days

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Music and Lyrics by Adam Gwon

Synopsis

This is a refreshingly honest and funny musical about making real connections in the city that never sleeps (but probably should at some point).

Ordinary Days tells the story of four young New Yorkers whose lives intersect as they search for fulfillment, happiness, love and cabs.

Through a score of vibrant and memorable songs, their experiences ring startlingly true to life. This is an original musical for anyone who's ever struggled to appreciate the simple things in a complex place. With equal doses of humour and poignancy, it celebrates how 8.3 million individual stories combine in unexpected ways to make New York City such a unique and extraordinary home.

Story

Ordinary Days is a portrayal of four New Yorkers whose lives intersect as they search for fulfillment, happiness, love and cabs. When the ever-optimistic Warren finds Deb's notes for her grad thesis, the two set in motion a series of events that not only change their lives, but the lives of fellow New Yorkers Claire and Jason.

When Deb loses her most precious possession--the notes to her graduate thesis--she unwittingly starts a chain of events that turns the ordinary days of four New Yorkers into something extraordinary. Told through a series of intricately connected songs and vignettes, Ordinary Days is an original musical about growing up and enjoying the view.

[2M, 2F; no intermission]

Musical Numbers

  1. One By One by One
  2. Don t Wanna Be Here
  3. The Space Between
  4. Let Things Go
  5. Dear Professor Thompson (Part 1)
  6. Life Story
  7. Dear Professor Thompson (Part 2)
  8. I m Trying
  9. Saturday at the Met
  10. Favorite Places
  11. Sort-Of Fairy Tale
  12. Fine
  13. Big Picture
  14. Hundred-Story City
  15. Party Interlude
  16. Calm
  17. Life Story (reprise)
  18. Gotta Get Out
  19. Rooftop Duet / Falling
  20. I ll Be Here
  21. Beautiful

Cast