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10-MINUTE MUSICAL COLLECTION

Stage Adaptation & Lyrics by Jonathan Keebler
Music by Bob Kelly
Based on a screenplay by Talia Berger

Comedy

A Most Average Musical

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First Friday night at college: will it be extraordinary, pathetic, or just average? Follow Jenny, her three roommates, and their quirky neighbor Charlie through an evening of highs and lows as they discover that sometimes average is extraordinary, too.

Overview

Cast Size

1m, 4f

Duration

10 Mins Approx.

Setting

College Dorm, Present

Subgenre

Romantic Comedy

Themes

College Life, Friendship, Self-Acceptance, Relationships

Target Audience

Teen (Age 14 - 18), Young Adult (Age 18 - 23), Adult

Style

Contemporary Musical Theatre

Instrumentation

Piano/Vocal, Bass, Drum Set

Additional Resources

Accompaniment Tracks

Cautions

Mild Language
Synopsis

Casting Information

  • JENNY: 18, Female identifying. An average girl who wants her life to be extraordinary.

  • LIZ: 18, Female identifying. A want-to-be sorority girl who craves status.

  • GWEN: 18, Female identifying. An ambitious student who wants to land a prized internship.

  • MELANIE: 18, Female identifying. A romantic who wants her tinder date to be perfect.

  • CHARLIE: 18, Male identifying. Jenny’s awkward neighbor who desperately needs to find a toothbrush.

Songs

What A Night
00:00 / 02:38
Extraordinary
00:00 / 03:16
Toothbrush/Pathetic
00:00 / 03:32
Return of the Roommates
00:00 / 02:39
Casting & Songs
Media

Media

Production History

  • March 2019: Short Film of Musical Premieres on Youtube.

  • May 2017: Stage adaptation presented as part of SOUND BITES 4.0 with Theatre Now.

  • February 2015: Reading presented at NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program Black Box Theatre. 

Production History
Author's Bios

Author Bios

Illustrated Mountains

JONATHAN KEEBLER is a lyricist and bookwriter based in New York City. Select musicals include GAY CARD (music by Ryan Korell), MEET AND RUN (music by Ryan Korell), TRUTH OR LIE (music by Bob Kelly), and the short film and stage musical, A MOST AVERAGE MUSICAL (screenplay by Talia Berger, music by Bob Kelly). He has work licensed by MTI and Uproar Theatrics, is a continuing member of the Theatre Now Writers lab, is a proud member of the dramatist guild, was a finalist for the Jonathan Larson Grants, has had his work developed at the Johnny Mercer Writer’s Colony, and received his MFA in musical theatre writing from NYU Tisch. His work has been seen at Teatro Cesgranrio in Brazil, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Soundbites 4.0, UC Irvine’s 4@15, the North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre, the College of Charleston, and Rollins College, as well as performed at Feinstein’s/54 Below and Joe’s Pub. Recordings of GAY CARD and MEET AND RUN are available wherever you get your music.

Illustrated Mountains

BOB KELLY is a Minneapolis-based composer, songwriter, pianist, and music director. Works of musical theatre include: Confessions of a Gay Priest (book and lyrics by Jonathan Keebler, based on the memoir by Tom Rastrelli), gilgamesh & the mosquito (book and lyrics by Sam Chanse), and Waiting… a song cycle (with Kelly Pomeroy). His work as a composer has received additional support from the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, The Gallery Players, Prospect Theater Company, NY Theatre Barn, Leviathan Lab, New Musicals Inc., and the Festival of New American Musicals in Los Angeles. He is a member of the Theatre Now International Musical Writers Lab, and his solo EP Open Road was released in 2021. Bob is a graduate of St. Olaf College and the NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. More info at bobkelly-music.com

Illustrated Mountains

TALIA BERGER is an LA-based writer and director. Talia studied film at the Pennsylvania State University where she directed and produced her senior thesis film: A Most Average Musical (with Bob Kelly and Jonathan Keebler). Talia’s directing credits include: High School Musical, Reefer Madness, In the Heights, Pride and Prejudice, The Phantom Tollbooth and Urinetown. Talia directed the staged production of A Most Average Musical for Theatre Now New York’s Sound Bites 4.0 in the summer of 2017. Since graduating, Talia has worked in film and television in both New York and Los Angeles. Her television credits include: Madam Secretary (CBS), Insecure (HBO), Lady Dynamite (Netflix), and Baskets (FX). Talia is a member of IATSE Local

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