


60 second demo teaser!
Small town video arcade wizard Tommie Jones dreams of becoming a real hero until her B‑movie plot turns upside down. It’s The Last Starfighter meets Pippin!
- • Rock
- • Soul
- • Swing
- • Country
- • Rap
FOUR SONG DEMO COMING SOON
- Female protagonist
- Min 6 men 6 women
- Color-conscious casting
SYNOPSIS/CHARACTERS
Theme
Beneath the nonstop comedy and dancing in the aisles, this show is about the very current struggle to overcome traditional good guy/bad guy fantasies and recognize others as people.
Synopsis
Small town video arcade wizard Tommie Jones daydreams her strict teacher, boring parents, big sister Stella, and Stella’s boyfriend Rick into a B-movie fantasy with herself as the teen who saves the day. When Martians land on her family’s farm and infiltrate her school’s Halloween dance looking for women, Tommie’s video game skills are the only thing standing between Earth and destruction or worse. But Martian Z genuinely falls for Stella, creating a crisis at the moment of Tommie’s triumph when Rick shoots him. The fight between a happy ending where the good guys foil the bad guys’ evil plot, and a happy ending where they all reject division to find interplanetary love, gets increasingly absurd building to a final confrontation on Mars where Rick loses the fight. But Rick is just the little man in Tommie’s video game who can live again for a quarter, and as her parents explain, she has the power to imagine an ending that leaves everybody happy.
Cast of Characters
May be performed by 6 women and 6 men by double-casting Miss Fillyfaddle / Mrs. Jones, and Narrator / Dr. Fizzenzap / Mr. Jones. Supporting characters are gender-flexible. Color-conscious casting is intended. Dr. Fizzenzap should have an accent consistent with the actor’s heritage. Please do not make everyone from Earth white and everyone from Mars non-white.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
About The Author
Daniel E. Biemer has been a satirical songwriting superhero for over fifteen years, with three albums, multiple Fringe Festival shows, even an uncredited cameo on America’s Got Talent. He grew up in Louisville Kentucky, spent many years in Chicago and its multiracial Hyde Park Neighborhood, and is currently based in Valparaiso Indiana.