Book and Lyrics by A. J. Freeman
Music by Kristoffer Bjarke
A cast of only four performers create a patchwork collection of characters who are caught in a cosmic whirlwind while lost in the thick London fog…
Full Length; 4w
LINCOLN CENTER LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS BILLY ROSE THEATRE DIVISION GRANT WINNER!!
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
May 11, 2023/Lincoln Center
Book and Lyrics by A. J. Freeman
Music by Sam Balzac and Joshua Cerdenia
Based on the hilarious play by Noël Coward! Can a quartet of guests survive a weekend at the country home of the eccentric Bliss family?
Full Length; 5w/4m
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
03/21 Reading with Theatre Now
06/23 Concert at Lincoln Center
THE CAROUSEL OF INEVITABILITY AND CERTAIN FOREBODING
Book by Gil Varod
Lyrics by A. J. Freeman
Music by Jonathon Lynch
A sense of dread + a frozen head!
2 versions: 25 minutes
& Full Length!
WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL
ACROSS A CROWDED ROOM FELLOWSHIP AT LINCOLN CENTER!
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
November 16, 2023/Lincoln Center
Book and Lyrics by A. J. Freeman
Music by Dimitri Landrain
A group of strangers must confront past mistakes and future possibilities as reality melts at a mysterious dinner party.
Based on J. M. Barrie's play Dear Brutus.
Full Length; 6w/5m
Book and Lyrics by A. J. Freeman
Music by Shoshana Yavneh Shattenkirk
Based on the extraordinarily tiny book by Vita Sackville-West. A fairy lives in a doll's house in a Queen's castle! But is life so very perfect as it appears?
A new operetta for treble voices!
Full Length; 8+ roles
Book and Lyrics by A. J. Freeman
Music by Sam Balzac
Move over MGM,
we are creating movie musicals!
Starring Sam and A. J.!
Produced and Directed by The Barn!
7 chapters of a magical musical set in a mysterious bookstore...
CHAPTER 1: YOU DON'T SAY
coming soon!
Book and Lyrics by A. J. Freeman
Music by Dimitri Landrain
Based on Aesop's Fables!
Student Large Cast Version: 60 minutes; 10+ performers
Assembly Version: 50 minutes;
2 - 10 performers
[Ant & Grasshopper: 10 min;
licensed by MTI!]
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
Concert 07/2021 Lincoln Center
Words by A. J. Freeman
Music by Jon Hugo Ungar
A dangerously farce-paced jazz operetta set on a runaway train in the 1960s: what else can possibly go wrong??
Full Length; flexible cast: 8 or 80!
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
Staged reading 02/2023
WHAT'S HER LINE?
Book and Lyrics by A. J. Freeman
Music by Derrick Byars
Based on the mysterious life and death of Dorothy Kilgallen.
Book by Keurim Hur
Lyrics by A. J. Freeman
Music by Maria Caputo
Based on the classic folktale about love and honesty and sacrifice.
20 minutes; 2w/1m
Book and Lyrics: A. J. Freeman
Music: Jonathon Lynch
On a really very super big day, two strangers meet on the road to town. But have they actually met before...?
20 min; 2w
KURT 'N' PAT: SPIES 4 HIRE!!!
Book and Lyrics by A. J. Freeman
Book and Music by Rick Rea
Kurt and Patricia Mortensen long to become international spies- but for the moment they are content to run a local detective agency. Out of their kitchen. One day, adventure comes a-knockin' and the tunes start
a-rockin'!
Full Length; 1w/1m
DOUBLE DOUBLE
Book and Lyrics by Seth Christenfeld
Lyrics by A. J. Freeman
Music by Eric Grunin
Musical mischief on Halloween!
20 min; 2w/2m/1 any gender
*listen to the podcast version starring Richard Kind HERE
MERE MORTALS
Book and Lyrics by A. J. Freeman
Music by Maria Caputo