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This hilarious and all-too-relatable song-cycle dares ask the question: WT*A*F is wrong with humanity?? Featuring such songs such as: “People Suck (Except For When You Want Them To”), “Where The Hell Is Darwin When You Need Him?”, and “When I See You Smile (I Want To Kill You)”.
People Suck is a song cycle that explores the many, many ways in which humans are awful to each other...especially when we ourselves are the ones who suck.The show follows a plotless emotional arc that goes from light-and-pithy to dark-and-unflinching, before coming to rest in a hopeful closing number exhorting the audience to “suck a little less each day, stopping sucking starts with you.”SONGS/SCENES:1. Today’s Lesson2. The Man They Call the Flake3. Where the Hell is Darwin When You Need Him?4. Bringin’ It Home / Your Problems5. Of All the People Whom I Hate6. Office Drama7. People Suck (Except for When You Want Them To)8. My God: 9. When I See You Smile (I Want To Kill You)10. Who Sucks Worse?11. Eleven12. Make A Better World:13. My Island14. I Don’t Know What To Say15. Darkest16. So What?
ALANNA: Female identifying, any age (but needs to be believable in a partnered relationship with Alex), vocal range G3-D5. A high-status lady who knows what she deserves and is going to get it, one way or another. Bonus points if the actor has operatic training.
ALEX: Male identifying, any age (but needs to be believable in a partnered relationship with Alanna), vocal range A2-A4. Optimistic but easily disappointed by life. He stands tall with a clear voice, but can sometimes be a complete, disgusting pervy creep. Bonus points if the actor has operatic training.
DAWN: Female identifying, any age, vocal range G3-E5. Confident and energetic, willfully oblivious to the negative ways she impacts those around her. Yet in the end she is willing to be the change.
PEARL: Female identifying, any age, vocal range G3-E5. Warm and down to earth, but with rage simmering just beneath which surfaces at the slightest provocation.
RICK: Male identifying, any age, vocal range G2-C4. At times the long-suffering Everyman, Rick feels helpless in the face of the stupidity which seems to surround him everywhere he goes. His grounded presence in scenes allows us to follow him easily into fantastical, tyrannical yet likeable personas in certain scenes
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