Music by Andrew Gerle

Book and Lyrics by Maryrose Wood

The Tutor was created in part during a writers’ residency at the Eugene O’Neill Music Theatre Conference in Waterford, CT. A half-hour exceprt was presented at the Public Theatre’s New Work Now! festival in the spring of 2002. It’s a three time recipeint of the Richard Rodgers Award, administered by the American Academy of Arts and Letters: a Development Award in 2002, a Studio Production Award in 2003, and most recently a Full Production Award in 2004.

Characters

Synopsis

Edmund
Late 20s/Early 30s. Intense, intelligent, full of himself.

Sweetie
16. Pierced nose, sullen.

Esther
50ish. Smart, controlling, tries-to-be-progressive Upper East Side mom.

Richard
50ish. Prosperous businessman with a mid-life crisis.

Hildegarde/Pippi
20s/30s. A fictional heroine. Doubles as Pippi, a vegan hippie chick.

Sean/Bo
20s/30s. A fictional hero. Doubles as Bo, a stoned high school slacker.

The Tutor is an original musical comedy about love, family, art, and what it really takes to get into Princeton. Edmund, a tormented young novelist, makes his living tutoring rich kids with bad grades and anxious parents. His newest client, Sweetie Finley, is a tougher nut to crack than most, but when this pierced-nose teen with a snarky attitude becomes Edmund’s creative muse, his life - and his novel - take a very unexpected turn.

Songs
(click here to listen to selections from the show)

Past Productions

Opening: A Very Special Girl / Stupid Rich Kids

Blank

Me Artist, You Rich

The Orange and the Black

Feels Like Home

Oh, Sweetie

The Little Choo-Choo

One More Thing (I’m Gonna Leave Behind)

The Only Explanation

Heroic

Inside My Head / Heroic reprise

Don’t Eat Your Friends

That’s How a Life Is Made

A Little More Time

Don’t Eat Your Friends reprise

Prospect Theatre Company Production
59E59 Theaters, New York, Sept. - Oct. 2005

The Joseph Papp Public Theatre
New Works Now! Festival, May, 2002

Richard Rodgers Award Studio Production
The York Theatre, October, 2003