Heartbeats
Book, Music and Lyrics By Amanda McBroom | Created by Amanda McBroom and Bill Castellino | Additional Music by Gerald Sternbach, Michele Brourman, Tom Snow and Craig Safan
Annie married Steve on her twentieth birthday- she fell for him the minute they met. Two children and twenty years later, they're still in love...but they've forgotten how to say it. Amanda McBroom, who leapt to the top of the pop charts with the multi-Grammy Award-winning 'The Rose,' has fashioned more than twenty of her songs into a knowing musical portrait of a woman facing her fortieth birthday and twentieth wedding anniversary all in one day. While looking back at her life and wondering if fulfillment hasn't passed her by, this mid-Western housewife is on the verge of discovering a new definition for happiness. Informed by tremendous humor and insight, this contemporary musical contemplates and illuminates the age-old conundrum known as 'self discovery.'
Cast Size: No Chorus • Small (1-10) • Medium (5-21). Vocal Demands: Easy • Moderate. Dance Requirements: Some Dancing Required • Minimal. Good For: College/University • Amateur/Community • Professional Theatre.
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Production Info
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"If you find yourself growing weary of dissonant chords and angst-ridden plotlines, HEARTBEATS is the show for you! A good-humored, intimate musical with universal import." — Los Angeles Drama- Logue
"Accessible...real commercial possibilities...the characters launch into one stirring number after another." — Variety, January 01, 1993
Song #
Song Name
Character Name
Play
Other Versions
1
I'm Fine
Annie
2
Monday's Mail
The Ensemble
3
The Way Of The Heart
Annie and the Ensemble
4
Hurt Somebody Blues
Steve, Man #1 and Man #2
6
Jennifer's Song
Woman #1
9
Hitchhiker
The Woman and Man#1
10
If This Is Love
Woman #1, Man #1, Annie and Steve
12
Tuesday's Mail
The Ensemble
13
Jeff's Song
Man #2 and the Ensemble
15
I'm Fine
16
Shopper's Fudge
Woman #1, Man #1 and Man #2
17
I Like To Look
The Women, the Men and Annie
18
Old Habits Die Hard
Steve
23
The Way Of The Heart (Reprise)
The Ensemble
24
The Rose
The Company
Vocal Range of Characters:
Written By: Amanda McBroom
Sorrow is a color in everyone's rainbow. Stronger in some than others. Necessary to all. I feel music, in almost any form, is one of the great healing powers on the planet...at the most cellular level. I am honored if some of my music touches and lightens anyone's heart.
How do I explain my success? Luck, of course. And, I guess, the ability to exchange feelings with others in a simple, clear way. Someone told me I let people know we all feel the same way about certain things, and there is great comfort in knowing you are not alone.
STANDARD
- HEARTBEATS - Orchestration Package (6 Books)
- 1 – KEYBOARD I/CONDUCTOR SCORE
- 1 – KEYBOARD II (Synthesizer)
- 1 – GUITAR (Electric, Acoustic)
- 1 – BASS (Electric, Acoustic)
- 1 – DRUMS (Traps)
- 1 – Errata Sheet
- HEARTBEATS - Rehearsal Set (12 Books)
- 10 – Libretto-Vocal Books
- 1 – Logo CD
- 2 – KEYBOARD I/CONDUCTOR SCORE
ADDITIONAL
- Heartbeats - Libretti/Vocal Books 10 pack
- 10 – Libretto-Vocal Books
- HEARTBEATS - PRE-PRODUCTION PACKAGE
- 1 – KEYBOARD I/CONDUCTOR SCORE
- 1 – Libretto-Vocal Books
1 Woman
1 Man
FEATURED
2 Women
2 Men
CHARACTERS
Annie - A nice, attractive middle-class woman facing the crisis of her fortieth birthday. She's energetic, smart, relatively happy, and stuck in a marriage that's grinding to a halt.
Steve - Annie's husband, a nice, attractive, totally masculine blue-collar American male in his forties, who is being dragged into a marital crisis he never saw coming.
Woman #1 - Twenty-ish, she plays Annie as a young woman; Jennifer, Annie's daughter, and others.
Woman #2 - She plays Annie's best friend; a salty, no-nonsense, sexy woman from Texas with a good sense of humor, and others.
Man #1 - Twenty-ish, he plays Steve as a young man, and others.
Man #2 - In his late twenties and quite handsome, he plays Annie's son Jeff, the Waiter, and others.
SPECIFIC LOCATIONS
The kitchen of a pleasant, middle-class house
In front of the TV in the Living Room
A grocery store
A Chippendale's-like nightclub
A quiet neighborhood bar
Materials Notes
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