Hip Pocket Musicals
A rock comedy where four actors play different roles in three “mini-musicals.”
Music & lyrics by Peggy Sarlin and Bill Burnett, book by moi.
• “Love Cycle: A Soap Operetta” has a vengeful ghost trapped in a laundromat dryer (which, y’know, happens).
• In “Doom’s Day In Court,” a washed-up horror movie star is sued for “palimony” by his easily-terrified ex.
• “I Love Lucia” finds an operatic diva arrested on the opening night of her new show.
The New Yorker Online did a story on the unaired TV version of “Love Cycle” (retweeted by Lin-Manuel Miranda).
See that version here; hear the full HPM score below; read the full script belower.
Cast
“Love Cycle”: Patti Lupone, Priscilla Lopez, Walter Bobbie, Lonny Price, Peggy Sarlin, Ellen Foley, Joe Hudson, Gordon Connell, Michele Denise-Woods
“Doom’s Day,” “Lucia”: Peggy Sarlin, Bill Burnett, Suzy Williams, Joe Hudson, David Misch
HIP POCKET MUSICALS: the script