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A Musical By Bruce Kimmel

Starring

Michael Burns Donna Baccala

Bruce Kimmel has this to say about the show

The first original musical I wrote.  There were three productions: A tryout when the show was in one act, at Los Angeles City College. Then a second production which starred Michael Burns and Donna Baccala at the Theatre of Arts Theater.  And then a final production, which starred my very own self, at a theater whose name I've forgotten near Melrose and Doheney (that theater became the home of screenings for the Writer's Guild).  A footnote:  A friend of someone in the cast saw the final production, loved it, and went to his mentor, Merv Griffin, and told him about it.  Merv asked me, one of the girls and this fellow, Chip Hand, to come on his show and do a "backer's audition", which we did.  What fun!  I got to sing the final song with Mort Lindsay and the band (he did a chart for it).  Oh, how I wish I had a video tape of that!