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Available for licensing through Concord Theatricals. Part of their Commissioned Musical Collection designed for high school productions, featuring 22 actors of any gender.

This contemporary musical explores the complex inner life of a young woman torn between safety and adventure, between her mother’s expectations and her best friend’s wild dreams. Will she follow in her mother’s footsteps, or take the dare of her impetuous best friend and chart a new path?

The Mad Ones premiered off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters in November 2017, followed by its UK premiere at the Other Palace in London in October 2024. The London production garnered critical acclaim for its intimate staging and powerful performances, with critics praising its ability to capture “the universal experience of standing at life’s crossroads” and its “achingly beautiful score that speaks directly to the heart.” For professional licensing inquiries, contact Seth Glewen at sglewen[at]gershny.com.

Justice is an intimate, epic musical exploring the first women on the U.S. Supreme Court—Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor—at the height of their power. The three justices confront and comfort each other about equal justice under the law, legal strategy, and civic responsibility, as well as husbands, motherhood, dreams, and sorrows, all while setting a new course for the country.

The world premiere was presented by Arizona Theatre Company in April 2022, followed by productions at Marin Theatre Company (2023) and Ensemble Theatre Company Santa Barbara. Available for licensing through The Gersh Agency.

Based on the beloved children’s books by Andrea Beaty, Ada Twist Scientist & Friends celebrates curiosity, creativity, and the scientific method through song, dance, and interactive storytelling.

A darkly humorous exploration of fan culture, celebrity worship, and the dangers of taking fandom too far. Kill the Boy Band combines catchy pop melodies with sharp social commentary.

The score blends soaring rock anthems, raucous bar songs, and lush Celtic-inflected melodies to tell a story of political ambition, unlikely allegiances, and deeply embedded love of country.

Henry and Mudge opened Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on December 17, 2006. The cast featured Jennifer Cody as Annie, Patrick Boll as Dad, Joseph A. Morales as Henry, Joan Hess as Mom and Todd Buonopane as Mudge. The production was directed by Peter Flynn, choreographed by Devanand Janki and produced by TheatreworksUSA.

Available for licensing through TheatreworksUSA.

by Bree Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan, The Bad Years is a new musical about a group of interconnected acquaintances and strangers who enter their twenties with great expectations. Over the course of the show, these twelve individuals collide and eventually even begin to connect and grow up. They experience love lost and first mistakes and a party to end all parties. There’s no doubt that the bad years make the best stories. Developed at Theatreworks Silicon Valley (directed and choreographed by Josh Prince), The Goodspeed New Musicals Festival, University of Minnesota Duluth, Penn State New Musical Theare Festival, and in concert at The Laurie Beechman Theatre and the Paramount Theatre, Rutland, VT. Cast: 6 Women, 6 Men Notable Songs: Avalanche, The Bad Years, Holding On, Last Week’s Alcohol, Not Her Way, Not a Love Story, Party Worth Crashing, Twenty-Something, Two Strangers, Where Did We Go Wrong, The World Is Ending

The Great Gatsby opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre on April 25, 2024, following a record-breaking, sold-out world premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse in October 2023. The production has made history as a global theatrical phenomenon, running simultaneously in three world capitals.

Broadway Production

The original Broadway cast starred Tony nominees Jeremy Jordan as Jay Gatsby and Eva Noblezada as Daisy Buchanan, with Noah J. Ricketts as Nick Carraway, Samantha Pauly as Jordan Baker, and John Zdrojeski as Tom Buchanan. The production won the 2024 Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical for Linda Cho’s nearly 300 dazzling costumes that bring the glamour of the Jazz Age to life.

West End Premiere

The musical made its European debut at London’s prestigious Coliseum on April 24, 2025, starring Jamie Muscato as Gatsby, Frances Mayli McCann as Daisy, Corbin Bleu as Nick, and featuring West End stars including Jon Robyns, Rachel Tucker, and John Owen-Jones. The limited engagement runs through September 7, 2025.

Seoul Production

In August 2025, The Great Gatsby became the first Broadway-originated production to run simultaneously in New York, London, and Seoul. Presented at GS Arts Center in English with Korean subtitles, the production stars Tony Award winner Matt Doyle as Gatsby, with original Broadway company members joining the cast. Korean producer Chunsoo Shin made history as the first Asian to serve as sole lead producer of a Broadway musical.

A U.S. Tour

A national tour is scheduled to launch in Baltimore in February 2026.

About the Adaptation

Kait Kerrigan’s book carefully translates Fitzgerald’s prose into dialogue and scenes that capture the essence of the story while flowing naturally in a theatrical setting. The production balances fidelity to the beloved source material with the demands of live theater, distilling the sprawling narrative into key scenes that honor the novel’s exploration of the American Dream.

Indigo tells the story of three generations of women, their individual struggles and perspectives on the world, and explores how art and the senses can bring connection, particularly to people who see the world a little differently. Autistic non-verbal teenager Emma is mourning the loss of her father, and shows us her inner world where she experiences the world as a range of colours.

The musical sensitively explores themes of living with Alzheimer’s, autism, and synesthesia, celebrating the bonds that unite a family.

UK Premiere - Curve Theatre Leicester (2025)

The UK premiere of Indigo opened at Curve’s Studio Theatre in Leicester on June 26, 2025, running through July 19, 2025. Produced by Sing Out, Louise! Productions in association with Curve, and directed by Catie Davis (International Resident Director of Beetlejuice), the production features musical supervision and orchestrations by Brad Haak (An American in Paris).

UK Premiere Cast:

• Lisa Maxwell (Loose Women) as Elaine
• Rebecca Trehearn (Olivier Award winner, Show Boat) as Beverly
• Katie Cailean as Emma (professional stage debut)
• Nuno Queimado (Hamilton) as Rick
• Hugo Rolland (101 Dalmatians UK Tour) as Tyler
• Tania Mathurin (Come From Away) as Alicia

Creative Team:

• Director: Catie Davis
• Musical Director/Orchestrator: Brad Haak
• Set and Video Designer: Andrzej Goulding
• Costume Designer: Susan Kulkarin
• Lighting Designer: Jake De Groot
• Sound Designer: Matt Peploe

The production earned praise for its authentic casting of an autistic performer in the role of Emma, and for its stunning visual design that brings Emma’s synesthetic inner world to vivid life on stage.

World Premiere - Human Race Theatre (2023)

The world premiere of Indigo took place at The Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, Ohio from June 7-25, 2023, where it received acclaim from audiences and critics alike.

World Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse | August 19 - October 5, 2025

The Heart is a breathtaking new musical featuring an innovative electronic score that pulses with the rhythms of hospitals, nightclubs, the beach, and the human heart itself. The production marks the first musical fully based in electronic dance music (EDM).

World Premiere Creative Team:

• Directed by Christopher Ashley (Tony Award winner)
• Choreography by Mandy Moore (Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, La La Land)
• Scenic Design: Robert Brill
• Costume Design: Sarafina Bush
• Lighting Design: Amanda Zieve
• Sound Design: Gareth Owen
• Projection Design: Lucy Mackinnon
• Hair Design: Alberto “Albee” Alvarado
• Music Supervision & Arrangements: Ian Eisendrath
• Orchestrations & Music Production: Juan Ariza, Elin Sandberg

World Premiere Cast:

• Heidi Blickenstaff as Claire
• Kenita Miller as Marianne Lamar
• Zachary Noah Piser as Simon Lamar
• Paul Alexander Nolan as Dr. Breva
• Jason Tam as Sean Lamar
• Lincoln Clauss as Thomas Driscoll
• Bre Jackson as Cordelia Owl
• Max McKenna as Juliette
• Wren Rivera as Marthe

The Heart is a recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and is supported by the National Alliance for Musical Theatre.

The Time Traveller’s Wife premiered at Storyhouse in Chester from September 30 to October 15, 2022, before transferring to the Apollo Theatre in London’s West End where it began previews on October 7, 2023 and officially opened on November 1, 2023. The production was produced by Colin Ingram for InTheatre Productions by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures.

The West End cast featured David Hunter (Waitress, Kinky Boots) as Henry, Joanna Woodward (Pretty Woman The Musical) as Clare, Tim Mahendran (&Juliet) as Gomez, Hiba Elchikhe (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) as Charisse, and Ross Dawes (Disney’s Newsies) as Henry’s Dad.

The production featured innovative staging with projections, video work, and theatrical illusions to create the effect of Henry travelling through time. The standout production number “Journeyman” created the illusion of Henry racing through time itself using animations, choreography, puppeteers, and stage magic.

Kait Kerrigan contributed additional lyrics to the score by Grammy Award-winning artists Joss Stone and Dave Stewart (of Eurythmics fame). The musical was originally booking through March 30, 2024, but closed early on February 24, 2024.

Developed at the Kennedy Center, Earthrise takes its inspiration from the iconic photograph of Earth taken during the Apollo 8 mission, weaving together themes of environmentalism, space exploration, and our shared humanity.

Dr. Wonderful was developed at the Kennedy Center as part of their new works initiative, focusing on family-friendly musical theatre that entertains while exploring deeper themes of health, healing, and personal growth.

book by Kait Kerrigan lyrics by Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk music by Bree Lowdermilk Synopsis: When mousy grad student Helen Morton first moves to New York, she is overwhelmed by the noise. Even though she’s moved to the city to write her dissertation on noise, its constant, loud, and overwhelming presence is more than she bargained for. It doesn’t help that her downstairs neighbor is a violinist who plays at all hours, or that her landlady gets drunk and sits on their front stoop, talking loudly to anyone who’ll listen. It also doesn’t help that her dissertation advisor seems to be out to get her. Helen has never felt more beleaguered by people and sounds, and at the same time, she’s never felt more alone in the world. The Woman Upstairs weaves university politics, neighbor relations, and coming of age into tapestry of 8 million people. But at the heart of it, it’s simply an old-fashioned romance between a physicist and the sounds of the city she learns to love. Production/Development History: New York Musical Theater Festival North Shore Music Theatre Reviews: “Sometimes, a musical comes along that announces itself from its first few notes as something very, very special… Overtones are being created, individual threads of music are weaving together to form a tapestry of emotion and sense of place that overcomes you like a wave crashing against the rocks. The sound is New York, and it’s as familiar as the constant rush of the sound of the streets, but simultaneously invigorating and musically new.” Talkin’ Broadway “Jot down the name Bree Lowdermilk, the composer-lyricist who has written the astonishing score for The Woman Upstairs. Incorporating additional lyrics by director-librettist Kait Kerrigan, Lowdermilk has tossed out a cornucopia of melodies and counter-melodies that rocket him upward on the list of people who are pointing to exciting new directions for the book musical.” Theater Mania “This week’s New York Musical Theater Festival seems like an open audition for an heir to the astoundingly successful Rent. The sweet music of Bree Lowdermilk’s The Woman Upstairs – a tale of antagonistic Greenwich Village neighbors who find romance in close quarters — has a decidedly ‘Seasons of Love’ quality.” The New York Times “Still waiting for wide recognition is the season’s best musical, which almost no one saw. The Woman Upstairs…is the type of brilliant show that, on paper, seems ridiculous: the anti-romantic, barely plotted posturings of a music-hating physicist and the blind violinist who lives in the apartment below. How could such a show possibly work? In most writers’ hands, it couldn’t. But the two writers hit upon the only way to make a story like this play: Set it against the ever-bustling backdrop of New York City.” Talkin’ Broadway 2004-05 Season Wrap Up

a living musical www.thefreshmanexperiment.com living musical [‘liv[ng] ‘myü-zi-k&l] 1. a musical based on the lives of living people 2. a musical existing in real time 3. a musical created on the internet by the award-winning writing team Kerrigan and Lowdermilk based on the lives of two young bloggers as they share the story of their freshman years of college. About: The Freshman Experiment (commonly nicknamed Fresh X by those in the know) began in March of 2007 when musical theater writers Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk were looking for a new project. They wanted to do something that combined all the things they loved – musical theater, unconventional formats, and surfing the web. They also wanted to explore the flip-side of their most recent musical The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown. Instead of the fictionalized high school senior Sam who does not go to college, they were interested seeing the inside of the real college freshman experience. Since they are old and decrepit, they knew that they needed something more than their distant memories of skipping orientation, playing beer pong, and making out in public. They knew they needed real college freshmen. The only questions remaining were who these real college freshmen would be and how they could best document the experience. After a long and hard search, they found Christine Coke and PosterChild, aspiring bloggers who agreed to write with absolute candor about their separate freshmen years. Their backgrounds and their new schools couldn’t be more different but by some weird coincidence the two had met before and were, for a brief period of time, friends. As friends often do, they lost touch, and were not reconnected until The Freshman Experiment began. Once Christine Coke and PosterChild were on board, everything started to fall into place… if by fall into place you mean move painstakingly through legal meetings, the process of finding the right web designer and waiting until all systems were finally go! Kerrigan and Lowdermilk had no idea what they got themselves into. They didn’t know what the end result would be or if there would be an end result. Writing is all about the process and this was their first attempt to let you, readers, in on that process first hand. No more “Which comes first – the words or the music?” You would see that it’s a big messy pile of a little bit of both, er, um, it depends, I don’t really remember… Update: After many successful songs were written about the intrepid freshmen’s experiences (including “How to Return Home” and “My Heart Is Split”) and after Kerrigan and Lowdermilk finished their personal chronicle of the experience “The Freshman Experiment”, they ended the experiment in September of 2008. Christine Coke continues to blog on her own phenomenal site at windowseat.tumblr.com and Kerrigan and Lowdermilk have learned a thing or two about blogging and forums that they’re trying to incorporate into their website. While the project has ended, you can go back and reread from the beginning at thefreshmanexperiment.com. You will watch Christine Coke’s and PosterChild’s freshmen years progress alongside Kerrigan and Lowdermilk. You’ll read their postings, the very ones that will inspire new songs before the songs are even written. You’ll see video and audio clips of Kerrigan and Lowdermilk songs at their earliest stage. Your comments and ideas will be a part of the project itself. In fact, your participation is continued evolution of the first-ever living musical. Watch Kait and Bree’s Last Video:

A Killer Party: A Murder Mystery Musical is an innovative digital musical created by more than 50 Broadway professionals working together remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 90-minute production was filmed entirely from cast and crew members’ homes across the country, representing a new format for theatrical storytelling born from necessity but executed with creativity and craft.

The Concept

When theaters around the world went dark in March 2020, a team of Broadway artists asked: what if we could create something new, something designed specifically for this strange moment? The result was A Killer Party, a murder mystery musical that embraces the limitations of remote performance while delivering Broadway-caliber entertainment.

The story centers on Varthur McArthur, the artistic director of a struggling regional theater in Duluth, Minnesota. When he invites his cast and crew to a virtual reading of his new project—an immersive murder mystery dinner party—someone takes the concept a little too seriously. Varthur is killed, and Detective Case must use the tools of video conferencing to separate suspects, uncover motives, and solve the mystery.

An All-Star Broadway Cast

The production assembled an extraordinary ensemble of Broadway favorites, each performing from their own homes:

• Jeremy Jordan (Newsies, Supergirl) as himself
• Laura Osnes (Cinderella, Grease) as Vivika Orsonwelles
• Alex Newell (Glee, Once on This Island) as Shea Crescendo
• Carolee Carmello (three-time Tony nominee) as Justine Case
• Miguel Cervantes (Hamilton) as Clarke Staples
• Jarrod Spector (Jersey Boys, Beautiful) as George Murderer
• Jackie Burns (Broadway’s longest-running Elphaba in Wicked) as Joan McArthur
• Michael James Scott (Aladdin, The Book of Mormon) as Varthur McArthur
• Jessica Keenan Wynn (Heathers, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) as Detective Case
• Krystina Alabado (Mean Girls) as Lily Wright
• Drew Gehling (Waitress) as Cameron Mitchelljohn

Release and Impact

A Killer Party premiered as a nine-episode web series on Vimeo on August 5, 2020. Within weeks, it had been viewed in more than 70 countries, with over 100,000 streams of the Original Cast Album released by Broadway Records. Music Theatre International acquired the licensing rights, making the show available for schools, community theaters, and professional companies to perform virtually.

The production proved that theatrical storytelling could transcend physical limitations, offering a model for how the industry might continue creating during unprecedented circumstances while maintaining the collaborative spirit that defines Broadway.

Father/Daughter is a recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. The play asks a central question: What can we learn from the relationships we choose in order to repair the relationships we inherit?

In parallel stories told 23 years apart, Baldwin is Miranda’s 30-year-old divorced father who is trying to forge a new relationship with a beguiling woman, and Miranda is Baldwin’s 30-year-old daughter who has found herself in her first serious relationship. Two actors play both pairs of lovers, creating an unspoken but palpable link between the generations.

The world premiere production was presented by Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley, California, running November 12 - December 12, 2021. Directed by M. Graham Smith, the production starred William Thomas Hodgson and Sam Jackson, with set design by Kate Boyd, costume design by Courtney Flores, lighting design by David K H Elliott, and sound design/original music by Cliff Caruthers.