Overview
Cast Size
5 (3f, 2m)*
Duration
10 Min.
Setting
Modern day, a museum.
Subgenre
N/A
Themes
Ambition, Art, Love
Target Audience
High school (age 13-17), Young adult (age 18-23), Adult
Style
Contemporary Musical Theatre
Instrumentation
Piano
Additional Resources
N/A
Cautions
N/A
Casting Information
MAY DALTON - 20s to 30s, female-identifying. Begins in her early 20s and ages to early 80s. ENSEMBLE 1 - Any age. Plays a museum docent, agent, newspaper reporter, critic. Non- singing.
ENSEMBLE 2 - Any age. Plays a museumgoer, townsperson, assistant, critic. Non-singing.
ENSEMBLE 3 - Any age. Plays a museumgoer, painter, reporter, critic. Non-singing.
ENSEMBLE 4 - Any age. Plays a boss, gallerist, reporter, assistant. Non-singing.
Songs
Media
Production History
2019 - Letters From May was written as a final presentation for the first-year program in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. It was presented as a reading in New York City.
2020 - Digital presentation at Theatre Now's Sound Bites 10-Minute Musical Festival.
2022 - Full production at Theatre Now's Sound Bites 10-Minute Musical Festival, performed at Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Music Center in New York City.
Author Bios
KARA CUTRUZZULA is a writer, editor, playwright, and musical theater lyricist and librettist. She is the author of the bestselling motivational journals Do It For Yourself, Do It Today, and Do It (or Don’t): A Boundary-Creating Journal. Her articles and essays have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, TIME, and other publications. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced and Librettists Workshops, and lives in New York City.
KRISTOFFER BJARKE Kristoffer Bjarke is a composer and pianist originally from Seattle. His most recent musical, Tomorrow, received a developmental grant from the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library and premiered at Lincoln Center in 2023. He has also had work produced by the New York Musical Theatre Festival and Theatre Now New York. His music for film has been heard in the Seattle International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Sacramento Film Festival, and Rod Serling Film Festival, among others.
