History

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

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.

Synopsis

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

• 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

Past Productsions

Prospect Theatre Company Production

59E59 Theaters, New York, Sept. - Oct. 2005

Past Readings

The Joseph Papp Public Theatre

New Works Now! Festival, May, 2002

Richard Rodgers Award Developmental Readings

Nola Studios, Chelsea Studios, and New Dramatists, Fall, 2002

Paulette Haupt, Producer

Richard Rodgers Award Studio Production

The York Theatre, October, 2003

Jim Morgan, Artistic Director