4x15: Round 29

fully staged and on its feet, presented for a public audience and a panel of industry professionals.
FEATURED ROUND 29 MUSICALS
MetropolisBook and Lyrics by MTF Maker AriDy NoxComposed by MTF Maker Brandon Webster
In a future where love between humans and androids is punishable by death, Fari’s burgeoning feelings for the human Tristan set her down a path of time-travel, electro-pop dance breaks, and rebellion. METROPOLIS follows the Harmonizer-android-unit turned space-time-continuum anarchist, FARI, from the moment she is wrenched across time to the genesis of both her creation and the creation of the society that oppresses her. In the company of the eccentric but caring Dr. HeLa Loretta Pleasant and the ambitious High Council Member Kaida Frederson, Fari rediscovers the history of her people and a rebellion whose history has been erased by those who control the city and its inhabitants. The more she learns, the more entrenched she becomes in the revolution, becoming not only one of its core architects and greatest leaders but also a legend in her own right.
I Love You StrangerBook, Music, and Lyrics by Deepali Gupta
I Love You Stranger is a musical attempt to arrive at a definition of bipolar.It is an etymological / epistolary / epiphanic pop fantasia—Containing the archives of a pivotal romantic relationship!The disputed history of a psychiatric disorder!And an inquiry into the nature of the suicidal impulse.Is suicide a contagious disease? If it is, how is it transmitted?How do we diagnose those artists who we lose to overdose and suicideAnd mysterious circumstances, and what do we inherit from them?A year in the life of an artist throws a lifetime into relief.
The Other Side of ParadiseBook, Music, and Lyrics by Angela SclafaniDeveloped with and Directed by Hunter Bird
The Other Side of Paradise is a wild music memory of a woman caught between art, fame,madness, and the greatest novelist of the 20th century. The show follows Zelda Fitzgerald asshe unearths her life’s song through a score with a genre-defying mix of folk, rock, pop, andjazz. Throughout the show, the Gang, an ensemble of actor-musicians, mediates the spacebetween Zelda, her husband Scott, and the unraveling story. Beginning at their meeting inAlabama, soaring through the drunken glamor of Paris, and spiraling down into the halls ofZelda’s mental hospital in the final days, the show spans 40 blazing years of books, booze, andbonfires.
Nasha AmericaMusic and Lyrics by Dmitry KoltunovBook by David GoldsmithDirected by Shaun PecnicDramaturged by Molly Marinik
Spanning three decades, and crossing the continents of Russia to the United States, “Nasha America” is the story of Yasha (seen in flashbacks as a boy of 10 who speaks no English), who with his family escapes the anti-Semitism of Soviet Ukraine in the shadow of Chernobyl to settle in Brighton Beach, New York. When we first meet Yasha, as a fully assimilated American community-college dropout, his beloved sister has died, leaving him to become the emotional – and more challengingly – financial support of his family. It’s then that he follows his computer-geek heart and founds an internet start-up that could either launch him and his family into security beyond their wildest American dreams, or – more likely – bankrupt them utterly. With its Russian Folk-inflected pop/hip hop score, “Nasha America” is inspired by true events from the life of its composer/lyricist Dmitry Koltunov.