Who I Want to Be (Chicken Soup Series)

Overview

WHWHO I WANT TO BE- (SELF ACCEPTANCE)

Ruby’s popular older sister has finally left high school but has left a long social shadow. Ruby wants to establish herself but doesn’t have a clue of how to do it. She comes up with a plan to “sample” different personalities to find the one for her. When she finds one that fits her, then she will become that person. This funny and endearing musical is a journey to find an identity that you might just already have.

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Details

Genre: Theatre for Young Audiences, Period, Parody / Spoof
Time Period: Contemporary, Present Day
Cast Attributes: Role(s) for Asian Actor(s), Role(s) for Black Actor(s), Role(s) for Latino Actor(s), Ensemble cast, Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Expandable casting, Roles for Teens, Flexible cast size, Multicultural casting, Room for Extras, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences, Adult, Senior, Children (Age 6 - 10), Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18)

Authors

Amanda Yesnowitz

Amanda Yesnowitz received the 2018 Kleban Prize for the most promising lyricist. She has also earned the Jonathan Larson Award (first individual lyricist), a Dramatists Guild fellowship, 8 MAC Award nominations, the Dottie Burman Award and the Jamie deRoy and Friends/ASCAP Aw ...

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Doug Katsaros

Doug Katsaros has a lengthy theatre résumé that includes writing the opening theme and special material for the Tony Awards. For Broadway, he conducted Footloose, vocal and dance arranged The Life, orchestrated The Rocky Horror Show, starred as Berger in Hair, and served as ...

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