Better Days, a new musical from pop-rock band The Summer Set's Brian Logan Dales and pop producer-songwriter Emily Wright, will have a world premiere reading this summer. It will be held August 7 at the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Renberg Theatre.
Eric Garcia, creator and showrunner of Netflix's Kaleidoscope, has penned the book for the comedy, which centers on old friends, unresolved feelings, and the gravity of coming home. Dale and Wright have written the score and lyrics. Kenneth Ferrone will direct the reading, with music direction by Gregory Nabours.
Set in a dusty Arizona bar over the course of three "Blackout Wednesdays" (the night before Thanksgiving) across 10 years, the work centers on some familiar faces that drift through Hal鈥檚 Bar鈥攕ome hoping to reconnect, others desperate to escape. They鈥檙e forced to confront the choices that shaped them and the dreams they never quite let go.
鈥淲riting the music for Better Days has been the most creatively fulfilling experience of my life. Emily and I set out to write songs that could live both inside and outside the world of the show鈥攕ongs that felt honest, story-rich, and built to last. They鈥檙e deeply personal to us, and yet, I think they鈥檒l feel familiar to anyone who鈥檚 ever gone home and wondered what鈥檚 changed," said Dales in a statement.
Better Days is co-presented by After Hours Theatre Company/Graham Wetterhahn and the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
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