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LONG STORY SHORT covers a romance and 50-year marriage in 98 minutes and 17 songs.
An adaptation of the play, AN INFINITE ACHE, by David Schulner, LONG STORY SHORT is a two-actor show, with a four-piece band.
A roller-coaster romance from the creators of the STRIKING 12, this charming pop musical transcends two twenty-somethings’ disastrous first date to whirl, for better or worse, into a lifetime of love. One Jewish, one Asian-American, this funny, frazzled couple careens from new-found desire to old-time commitment, reckoning along the way the costs, the compromises, and the enduring promise of an affair you will always remember—a passion you won’t soon forget.
CHARLES — A 25-year old slightly nebbishy Jewish white guy from the East Coast. The actor who plays him should be able to convincingly play somebody older (in our experience, casting somebody in their 30’s is probably the right call).
HOPE — worldly and slightly jaded 27-year old born and raised in LA. She has grown up in an upper-middle class family, and has a taste for the slightly finer things. She’s probably a bit out of CHARLES’s league. She has been roped into a blind date with CHARLES and is none too happy about it.
Casting Note:
In Schulner’s original play, HOPE was either Chinese or Chinese-Filipina. We’re leaving her race open — she could be Asian, Latina, African-American — but there must be an obvious difference in racial heritage between her and CHARLES; a crucial argument hinges on it. If HOPE is not conceivably of Chinese heritage, a few lyrics will have to change, marked in the script with an asterisk (*).
4 Musicians
Piano/Conductor (Keyboard 1)
Violin
Cello
Drums/Percussion
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