10-MINUTE MUSICAL COLLECTION
Book, Music, & Lyrics by
Chris Kerrigan
Dark Comedy
The Facebook Fighter
A bitter 30-year-old misanthrope makes continuous attempts at human connection the only way he knows how: by antagonizing people on Facebook. After he alienates his "friends" one by one with incendiary political rants, snobbish pop culture opinions, and flat-out viciousness, he realizes too late that his brash and frank online persona has pushed everybody away and left him all alone in a void of existential loneliness & social media silence.
Overview
Cast Size
7+ (4m, 3f, Flex. Ensemble)
Duration
10 Mins.
Setting
Present day, on Facebook
Subgenre
Satire
Themes
Current Events, Friendship, Politics, Media, Feminism
Target Audience
Teen (Age 14 - 18), Young Adult (Age 18 - 23), Adult
Style
Contemporary Musical Theatre
Instrumentation
Piano/Vocal
Additional Resources
Accompaniment Tracks
Cautions
Strong Language
Casting Information
GARON - 30, antagonistic and opinionated line cook
BETH - 25, radical third wave feminist, no time for bullshit
DEVIN - 28, lover of Arrested Development and The Decembrists.
JOLIE - 28, Devin’s friend who equally loves these things
JACOB - 30, sensitive sweet man who leans on his friends
RICHARD - 45, paranoid about photos/video being appropriated
LINDSAY - 24, in a relationship with a much older man
CARLY - 32, expectant mother
ROB - 35, expectant father
SUSAN - 30, lover of Pilates
MIKE - 45, alpha Bronco’s fan
The following roles are doubled: BETH/CARLY, DEVIN/ROB, JOLIE/SUSAN, RICHARD/MIKE
Songs
Media
Production History
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2017 - Presented at SOUND BITES 4.0, 10-min Musical Festival at the Pershing Square Signature Theatre. Winner of BEST MUSICAL.
Author Bios
CHRIS KERRIGAN is a musical theatre actor, singer/songwriter, and playwright living and working in Los Angeles. He is the head of the theatre department at STAR Education, a far-reaching after school program that serves over a hundred schools in the greater Los Angeles area. He has written nine full-length children’s musicals (Two Sides to Every Story, Screen Time: The Musical!, The Toy Store, and Reading is Rad, to name a few) that have been performed in elementary schools far and wide. He has performed in several regional productions including Parade (Hugh Dorsey), Violet (The Preacher), Assassins (John Wilkes Booth), American Idiot (Tunny), Jekyll & Hyde (Jekyll/Hyde), and Avenue Q (Brian), to name a few. He plays piano/keyboards in several LA bands as well.
