BLUE MOON
Robbie Pancrazio is out-of-work and, arguably, out of his mind. After writing lyrics and books
for Tony Award-winning musicals, Robbie can't get arrested. Broadway's theaters have been occupied
by a British composer writing soap operas with one good song and hours of special effects, the latest
"Eva," a singing and dancing portrait of Hitler's mistress.
Adding insult to Robbie's injuries is "Mikey Moose," America's first cartoon icon. "The Moose" Corporation,
once a respectable creator of animated children's films and theme parks, decided to rebuild and then perpetually
fill Broadway theaters with fulsome musical productions of its own films. So, an unemployed Robbie smokes and smolders,
drinks and rages, develops ticks and hears "The RumDums," sounds in his head, like muffled voices, that he can't quite make out.
Just when his career, his sanity and the American musical theater all seem lost, Robbie is called by Stephen Sender, the dean of
Broadway composers. No longer able to write lyrics because of a stroke, Sender asks Robbie to join him in creating "a real Broadway
musical to lampoon that British hack
and 'The Moose'." Robbie writes a show to Sender's specifications, only to have Sender dismiss it. Sender's rejection pushes Robbie over the edge.
But, what's a crazed lyricist to do in August when all of Manhattan's shrinks are vacationing on Cape Cod?
Fortunately, Robbie meets Aillen Courvade, who accepts him as a patient. But, as Robbie gets better, Aillen mysteriously adopts his symptoms.
Then, as Sender's colleagues are killed and Robbie's and Aillen's lives are threatened, the truth about Aillen's remarkable past is revealed
and the tables are magically turned. Blue Moon is a supernatural and surprising, wry and witty commentary on Broadway and reflection on what's
really important in life.
