September 2025 - Fresh Faces
Character designs, progress updates, and OUR NYC DEBUT???
As promised, here are our BRAND SPANKING NEW character designs, courtesy of the wildly talented Olivia Mangione:
We were fortunate enough to have Liv involved in our January reading of Act I, and were so delighted when she approached us about making some art for the show. If you love her work as much as we do, you can find her on Instagram!
To be honest with you, September was kind of a rough creative month. Daniel was busy settling into full time work again, and Jessi spent the whole month moving. Creativity had to be set on the backburner. However, we DO have a few progress updates:
We are continuously refining our show’s thesis for better specificity and better payoff at the end. Narrowing our focus has also led to putting our characters under scrutiny, which helps us solidify their arcs. Hijinx in particular is someone we’ve been polishing up this month, as we write the final few songs for the show.
We brought back an old plot element! If you’ve listened to the one-act musical (and if you haven’t, you’re really missing out. You can find it on Spotify & Apple Podcasts,) you might remember that Hijinx was briefly sucked into a “memory stick” by Betty, who intended to erase them. We got rid of this for the full length, as the moment was no longer the climax of the show, and the added prop just complicated things. While stuck on the logistics of one of the penultimate scenes, we realized that having a device like that would actually make things less complicated. So welcome back to the show, little plot device.
Despite our creativity moving like molasses in September, things are REALLY shaping up for October! The song we shared in the last newsletter, Someone to Someone, is being performed at First Drafts: An Evening of Unheard Musical Theatre by Showpeople Theatre Collective! This event is being held in NYC at The Green Room 42 on October 22nd, 2025 at 9:30pm EST.
You can purchase tickets (including livestream passes) here!
Outside of this newsletter, Someone to Someone has not made a public or workshop appearance, and we’re thrilled to have something so new onstage at The Green Room 42. Showpeople Theatre Collective is a very neat theatre group that’s focused on new work, especially new musicals - you can find out more about what they do on their website!
So… we promised to have a full draft to you by November. That’s now one month away. Are we going to make that deadline?
We’re still on track to wrap up Act II by the end of the month, but now there are major moments in Act I that need revision to make Act II properly pay off. So we will have lots of content, but it’ll need some processing before we’re ready to share with the class. So hang in tight!
Happy October, and we’ll see you (virtually) at First Drafts!
We'll be there in NYC for you!!