10-MINUTE MUSICAL COLLECTION
Book by Howard Ho
Lyrics by Chris Edgar
Music by Kristen Rea
Comedy
End of The Line
Four worker ants set out on a routine mission to retrieve tasty morsels for their colony and end up on the quest of a lifetime. When faced with a fork in the road, will they return home empty handed or receive a hero’s welcome for discovering the “legendary stuff” long prophesied by their ancestors?
Overview
Cast Size
4 (2m, 2f)
Duration
11 Mins Approx.
Setting
A parking lot outside a 7/11 store, July 2013
Subgenre
Theatre For Young Audiences, Adventure
Themes
Aging, Death, Friendship, Memory, Religion, Purpose, Bravery
Target Audience
Appropriate for all audiences
Style
Classic/Standard Musical Theatre
Instrumentation
Piano/Vocal
Additional Resources
N/A
Cautions
None
Casting Information
STACY - A senior worker ant. Wise and disciplined with a youthful optimism.
TAYLOR - A young worker ant. Naive and fearful. Loves the Queen.
ALEX - An experienced worker ant. Second in command. No funny business.
SQUIRT - A new worker ant. This is his first day on the job.
Songs
Media
Production History
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2015 - Developed in association with New Musicals, Inc. (NMI) and first produced by NMI at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in North Hollywood, California.
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2018 - Produced Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre’s Irene Diamond Stage as part of Theatre Now 10-Minute Musical 5.0, ’s SOUND BITES Festival.
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2019 - END OF THE LINE was produced in NYC at The Vineyard’s Dimson 15th Street Theatre as part of the 44th Annual Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival.
Author Bios
KRISTEN REA is a former dancing french hornist turned musical theater book writer, lyricist & composer. After over a decade performing in the Tony and Emmy award-winning theatrical production, Blast! and Blast! The Music of Disney, throughout the US and Japan, Kristen shifted to the creative side and studied Music and Lyrics at New Musicals, Inc. and BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. Original works include End of the Line (Samuel French Off-off-Broadway Short Play Festival, Theatre Now’s SOUND BITES 5.0 Festival, NMI), New Horizons (BMI Workshop), North Pole High (NMI Got Musical, NMI New Works Staged Reading), Sombrellu (CITYstage), and In The Hall (with Lori Jaroslow). Kristen grew up in Placerville, CA - the epicenter of California’s Gold Rush, and holds a B.M. in French Horn Performance from the University of Southern California and an M.F.A. in Brass Performance from California Institute of the Arts. She currently resides in New York City where she works in musical theatre publishing and licensing and tries to make your favorite musicals’ scores and parts look pretty.
HOWARD HO is a playwright and composer. His short musical End Of The Line (co-written with Kristen Rea and Chris Edgar) was in The Samuel French Off-off-Broadway Short Play Festival and Theatre Now’s SOUND BITES 5.0. His play Various Emporia was a 2017 O'Neill National Playwrights Finalist. His musical Pretendo was featured in the Center Theatre Group (CTG) Library Reading Series. He was a 2016 CTG Literary Fellow and a 2013 NY State Summer Writers Institute Scholarship recipient. His work has been developed with East West Players, Playwrights’ Arena, Company of Angels, Kaya Press, New Musicals Inc., Playground-LA, Santa Monica Playhouse, Here and Now, and The Vagrancy. His popular Youtube videos analyzing the musical Hamilton (youtube.com/HowardHoMusic) have been recognized by Lin-Manuel Miranda and have garnered millions of views collectively. He holds a musicology degree from UCLA and a Master of Professional Writing from USC.
CHRIS EDGAR is a composer and songwriter writing music for film, theater, TV, and digital series. Edgar has scored award-winning films, including Ghost in the Gun, which won numerous film festival awards for Best Original Score; the movie musical The Breakout: A Rock Opera; and the animated musical Steve’s Quest, which won numerous awards including the International Academy of Web Television’s Best Animated Series Award and the Best Original Score Award at the Hollyweb festival. Edgar has also toured as a drummer, and worked as an orchestrator, with signed recording artists. Last and probably least, Edgar is an attorney who specializes in commercial litigation and entertainment law, although he is in the process of leaving that behind to fully focus on music.