Overview
Cast Size
4 (2m, 2f)
Duration
11 Mins. Approx.
Setting
A forest near Delaware. Not Christmas time.
Subgenre
Christmas/Holiday, Fantasy
Themes
Family, Relationships, Acceptance, Marriage
Target Audience
Appropriate for all audiences
Style
Contemporary Musical Theatre
Instrumentation
Piano/Vocal
Additional Resources
Accompaniment Tracks
Cautions
N/A
Casting Information
DES - Late 20s, an average city-dwelling man, Jennifer’s fiancé.
JENNIFER - Late 20s, a smart city-dwelling woman, Des’ fiancée.
MOTHER - Looks 50s, Des’ mother, matronly.
FATHER - Looks 50s, Des’ father, patronly.
Songs
Media
Production History
Batavia Players
Date: August 27-28, 2021
Venue: Batavia, NY
Telo Presenta
Date: August 23-27, 2021
Venue: Streaming
Staples Players
Date: May 20-22, 2021
Venue: Westport, CT
Bard High School Early College
Date: May 27-28, 2020
Venue: Queens, NY
Bennington Community Theatre
Date: November 15-17, 2019
Venue: Bennington, VT
City Theatre
Date: May 31-July 1, 2018
Venue: Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami, FL
Producer: Susan Westfall on behalf of City Theatre
Sound Bites, Theatre Now New York
Date: May 21, 2018
Venue: Signature Theatre Center, New York, NY
Producer: Chris Giardino on behalf of Theatre Now New York
DES: Kyle Olsen
JENNIFER: Rebecca Odorisio
MOM: Adrien Swenson
DAD: Nicholas Alexiy Moran
DIRECTOR: Erin Thompson
MUSIC DIRECTOR: Andy Roninson
The Almost In-Laws won Best Musical at the Sound Bites festival.
Take a Ten Musicals Podcast
Date: August 1, 2015
Venue: takeatenmusicals.com and associated podcast feed
Producer: Andy Roninson on behalf of Take a Ten Musicals.
DES: Aaron Phillips
JENNIFER: Christiana Cole
MOM: Tiffany Topol
DAD: Bruce Sabath
DIRECTOR and MUSIC DIRECTOR: Andy Roninson
Author Bios
GREG EDWARDS wrote the script for Application Pending (Off-Broadway, Drama Desk nomination) and Craving for Travel (Off-Broadway); lyrics for Neurosis (Off-Broadway), and book and lyrics for Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime (Samuel French OOB Festival winner, City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting, Take a Ten Podcast). Greg’s essays appear in Avidly (LA Review of Books) and McSweeney’s, and his game Jessica Plunkenstein and the Dusseldorf Conspiracy (NYT “Best Adventure Game of the Year”) was published by PC Gamer UK. Greg is an alumnus of Yale (Phi Beta Kappa), the BMI Workshop (Harrington Award), and the Dramatists Guild Fellows. www.greged.com
ANDY RONINSON is a composer, lyricist, orchestrator, and music director living in New York City. He is a recipient of the 2019 Jonathan Larson Grant, a 2019-2020 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow, and a participant in the 2017 Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project. As a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Workshop, he was awarded the Robert B. Sherman Scholarship and the Harrington Award for Creative Excellence. For more, visit AndyRoninson.com. He is the creator, host, and co-writer of TAKE A TEN, the all-original ten-minute musical podcast. Recorded episodes featured Broadway voices like Laura Osnes, Rob McClure, George Salazar, and more. Episodes have been produced live around the world and have won numerous awards including Best Musical twice at Theater Now’s SOUND BITES Festival, the 2016 City Theater National Award for Short Playwriting, and the top place at the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival. To hear every episode for free, visit TakeATenMusicals.com.
