Bruce Kimmel has this to say about the show

Together Again - written just before The Good One, and produced first, as always, at LACC.  It then moved to a theater in Burbank.  The original production featured my friend Joan Ryan and a gal named Udana Power who'd played Melanie in Gone With the Wind at the Music Center!  Also featured was Jeff Maxwell, who played the cook on MASH.  When we moved it, my pal Marsha Kramer (Wendy in the Sandy Duncan Peter Pan) replaced Joan, and Penny Peyser replaced Miss Udana Power.  It was about a comedy troupe who'd split up after years of being together - the show is about their comeback.  It's got some nice songs in it, especially A Slight Neurotic, which was popular in cabaret shows back then.

Original Cast members

Joan RyanUdana Power

02/01/2002:

Then I watched my musical comedy Together Again, taped when it was in its first incarnation, trying out at Los Angeles City College. Much of it got fixed after that production (we moved the show to a small theater in Burbank three months later), so it is painful to watch all the junk that didn't work at all. It does have a few decent songs, though, and some pretty funny bits. Good actors too, including Joan Ryan (Marsha Kramer did that part when we moved), Jeff Maxwell (who was a regular on MASH), Debbie Tilton (who stole all the reviews and who is fantastic), Udana Power (she played Melanie in the musical of Gone With The Wind! Penny Peyser played the role when we moved), my pal Alan Abelew (George in The First Nudie Musical), Rick Waln (who sings a number called I Hate Musicals, long before Ruthless), and Debbie Moradzedeh, who was a student, and who later changed her name to Gracie Moore, and is now one of those loopers who do all the post-production voices for every movie ever made. Oh, and me. I was very skinny in those days, 137 pounds, size 30 waist. Whew. In this first incarnation of the show, my character was totally insufferable, and I kept shouting at the TV, "Shut up already!" as I watched me being obnoxious. Only one scene worked terrifically for my character, and interestingly, you can hear the audience react and laugh and respond to the guy. When we were in rehearsals for the move, it was Penny Peyser who finally said to me, "This guy is a jerk" and that really made me investigate the why of "this guy's a jerk" - once I realized why, I changed almost everything - not so much the dialogue (although plenty of that changed, too), but certain plot points which just made the character seem too anal and obsessed and crazy. Once we fixed those things, the whole thing played much better and was much funnier.

10/15/2002:

Well, dear readers, my pal Rick Waln e-mailed me yesterday to remind me that it was twenty years ago today (yesterday) that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. No, that’s not right. It was twenty years ago yesterday that my musical comedy entitled Together Again had its opening night. Mr. Waln was in the cast, along with myself, Alan Abelew, Joan Ryan, Udana Power, Debbie Tilton, Jeff Maxwell and Debbie Moradzedeh (now Gracie Moore). We all had a wonderful time doing the show, even though at that time there were still quite a few things that would get changed and rewritten by the time we moved the show to a theater in Burbank. In Burbank, we ran for a couple of months if I recall correctly – same cast except for two replacements – Penny Peyser for Miss Power, and Marsha Kramer for Miss Ryan. It seems like yesterday and it is quite hard to believe that twenty long years have passed.

REVIEW

Show Music June 1983 Volume 2, Number 4
Bruce Kimmel's TOGETHER AGAIN (Cerberus Records COC 0301) is a musical about a comedy group, "The Odd Ducks", who have found that their split-up hasn't brought the individual success they'd hope for. They've gotten back together, and the personal and professional problems which have to be sorted out are the basis for this show. Mr. Kimmel (who wrote STAGES) has given us a number of bright and witty songs, some which show a Sondheim influence. We liked the amusing "The Real World", in which the group sings of their failure in the year they were apart; the two-part "Creating", which aptly details the creative process; Deborah Tilton's sensitive "A Slight Neurotic" which explains why she turned to being funny; the list of things one can do to keep busy when "Falling Out of Love"; and the hunger-making "Desserts". Mr. Kimmel not only wrote, the book, music and lyrics for this show. but also performed with it with the Los Angeles cast.