Product Description
At the dawn of the small computer age, we find three office workers at their jobs all with their own struggles and doubts and longings. Accused of being nerds, their lives and relationships are in flux. We follow them through laments like Biodegradable Interface, High-Tech Wreck, and Power Failure in my Heart to tongue-twister patter songs full of puns like Edible Bytes and Theyre An Infomaniac.
With words and music by famed composer Dennis Bathory-Kitsz writing under his pseudonym Brady Kynans, Beepers is a tuneful cabaret full of earworms.
Even though Beepers was written in 1986, it has lessons as well as cautions for our own time.
This is a piano/vocal score. The written cast of Beepers is gender neutral, a relatively minor change from the 1986 book. In performance, the abbreviated names may be used or gendered names may be assigned to the available players.
E is Erika/Everett. E is a jaded social critic, somewhat of an outcast, and always on edge about our roles in modern technology. Alto or baritone.
R is Reba/Rafi. R is a sad, yearning young person, searching for both meaning and love in life, and certain it wont be coming soon. Alto or baritone.
L is Ladislaw/Lydia. L is a shy, reticent programmer with little life experience and a hesitant manner, on the edge of sadness. Alto or baritone.
Choruses (Nerds, Color VDT Blues, and Infomaniac) are sung by E, R, and/or L, or other performers in any combination.
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