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Heartbeats

Full-Length Musical, Comedy  /  3w, 3m

Book, Music and Lyrics by Amanda McBroom
Created by Amanda McBroom and Bill Castellino
Additional Music by Gerald Sternbach, Michele Brourman, Tom Snow and Craig Safan

A Midwestern housewife, facing her 40th birthday and her 20th wedding anniversary, seeks a new definition for happiness. With humour and insight, this contemporary musical comedy – featuring a tuneful pop-influenced score by Amanda McBroom – contemplates one woman's hilarious and heartwarming journey of self-discovery.

Heartbeats

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Romantic Comedy
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences

Details

Summary
Annie married Steve on her 20th birthday – she fell for him the minute they met. Two children and 20 years later, they're still in love... but they've forgotten how to say it. Amanda McBroom, who leapt to the top of the pop charts with the multi-Grammy Award-winning “The Rose,” has fashioned more than 20 of her songs into a knowing musical portrait of a woman facing her 40th birthday and 20th wedding anniversary all in one day. While looking back at her life and wondering if fulfillment hasn't passed her by, this Midwestern housewife is on the verge of discovering a new definition for happiness. Informed by tremendous humour and insight, this contemporary musical contemplates and illuminates the age-old conundrum known as “self discovery.”
History
Heartbeats premiered at San Diego's Old Globe in 1990. The musical was subsequently produced at Goodspeed Opera House, opening on 7 July 1993.
Keywords
Performing Groups
ANNIE – A nice, attractive middle-class woman facing the crisis of her 40th birthday. She's energetic, smart, relatively happy, and stuck in a marriage that's grinding to a halt.
STEVE – Annie's husband, a nice, attractive, totally masculine blue-collar American male in his forties, who is being dragged into a marital crisis he never saw coming.
WOMAN #1 – Twenty-ish, she plays Annie as a young woman; Jennifer, Annie's daughter and others.
WOMAN #2 – She plays Annie's best friend, a salty, no-nonsense, sexy woman from Texas with a good sense of humor and others.
MAN #1 – Twenty-ish, he plays Steve as a young man and others.
MAN #2 – In his late twenties and quite handsome, he plays Annie's son Jeff, the Waiter and others.
  • Time Period Present Day
  • Setting Annie and Steve’s home on the outskirts of a Midwestern town. The present.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)

Media

“A good-humored, intimate musical with universal import.” – Los Angeles Drama-Logue

“Accessible... real commercial possibilities... the characters launch into one stirring number after another.” – Variety

“If you find yourself growing weary of dissonant chords and angst-ridden plotlines, Heartbeats is the show for you! A good-humored, intimate musical with universal import.” – Los Angeles Drama-Logue

Music

Act I

1. “I’m Fine” – Annie
2. “Monday’s Mail” – The Ensemble
3. “The Way Of The Heart” – Annie and the Ensemble
4. “Hurt Somebody Blues” – Steve, Man #1 and Man #2
5. “Putting Things Away” – Annie
6. “Jennifer’s Song” – Woman #1
7. “Tell Me What You Want” – Woman #2, Annie, Woman #1 and Man #2
8. “Ship In A Bottle” – Woman #1
9. “Hitchhiker” – The Woman and Man#1
10. “If This Is Love” – Woman #1, Man #1, Annie and Steve
11. “Dance” – Annie
12. “Tuesday’s Mail” – The Ensemble
13. “Jeff’s Song” – Man #2 and the Ensemble
14. “Anyone Can Do The Heartbreak” – The Ensemble

Act II

15. “I’m Fine (Reprise)” – Annie
16. “Shopper’s Fudge” – Woman #1, Man #1 and Man #2
17. “I Like To Look” – The Women, the Men and Annie
18. “Old Habits Die Hard” – Steve
19. “Somebody” – Annie and Man #2
20. “Serve ’Em Right” – The Women
21. “Anything But The Truth” – Annie
22. “All This Time” – Annie, Steve and the Ensemble
23. “The Way Of The Heart (Reprise)” – The Ensemble
24. “The Rose” – The Company

Full Orchestration

Keyboard I Conductor Score
Keyboard II (Synthesizer)
Guitar (Electric, Acoustic)
Bass (Electric, Acoustic)
Drums (Traps)
Errata Sheet

  • Musical Style Contemporary Broadway
  • Dance Requirements Moderate
  • Vocal DemandsModerate
  • Orchestra Size Small/Combo
  • Chorus Size No Chorus

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Authors

Amanda McBroom

Amanda McBroom

Amanda McBroom has been called “the greatest cabaret performer of her generation, an urban poet who writes like an angel and has a voice to match.” Her name first came to the attention of the music public when Bette Midler’s version of Amanda’s song “The Rose” hit number one ...

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Bill Castellino

Bill Castellino

Bill Castellino directed and choreographed the world premieres of THE SINGING WEATHERMAN (starring Ron Holgate) by Jim McGinn, Keith Herrman, and Larry Goodsight and BREATHE by Michael Biello and Dan Martin. Mr Castellino directed and choreographed STOP THE WORLD, I WANT TO G ...

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Gerald Sternbach

Gerald Sternbach

Gerald Sternbach is one of Los Angeles’ foremost musical directors, now starting his sixth season as musical director of Reprise! Broadway’s Best in Concert (Los Angeles' version of New York's Encores! series), which included ON YOUR TOES. He was presented in early 2007 the J ...

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Michele Brourman

Michele Brourman

Michele Brourman is the winner of the Johnny Mercer Award for "Emerging American Songwriters." A frequent performer in ASCAP's songwriter concerts, she has appeared in the prestigious Lyrics and Lyricist Series at New York's 92nd Street Y, at the Smithsonian Institute, and at ...

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Tom Snow

Tom Snow

Tom Snow has been making music, recording albums and writing hits for himself and other artists - on record, on radio, in the United States and all over the world - since the early 1980s.

He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song from a Motion Picture: "L ...

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Craig Safan

Craig Safan

Craig Safan has been composing music for movies and musical theatre since he was fourteen years old. At Brandeis University, Craig wrote the music for four original musicals and was awarded a Watson Foundation Fellowship to study music in London after graduation.

He has score ...

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