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Girlfriend

"Girlfriend allows us to richly inhabit the perilous journey Mike and Will are undertaking [...] those who can enter the rhythm of the musical may find themselves returning to some epic emotions from their youth."

Los Angeles Times

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: 1990s
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Exterior Set
  • Orchestra Size: Small/Combo

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Set in Nebraska in the '90s, Will, a bit of a social outcast, and Mike, the popular football player, figure out that there is more to life than what high school has taught them. Days after graduation they explore their relationship and begin to ask themselves where their lives begin.

Based on the album by Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend is a pop/rock musical for everyone who's lived in a small town and feels for their first love.
REVIEWS:

"Girlfriend allows us to richly inhabit the perilous journey Mike and Will are undertaking [...] those who can enter the rhythm of the musical may find themselves returning to some epic emotions from their youth."

 Los Angeles Times

"It is, in every regard, a musical play about the wonder and the insecurity of adolescent love [...] Girlfriend is touching and uplifting."

 Cincinnati.com

Premiere Production: Girlfriend premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA in April 2010 under the direction of Les Waters.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M
  • Casting Attributes: All Male
  • Chorus Size: No Chorus

  • MIKE
    WILL

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