YOU AND ME
Book and lyrics by Barbara Hammond. Book and music by Marc Chan. A full-length musical about two women Katherine and Nicole, tracing the day they met and their reunion, some 20 years later. On the surface, it’s a story about their decades-long friendship, but at its core, it’s a Proustian retrieval of lost time. Each scene alternates between the younger and older pair: this cross-cutting intensifies as past and present collide, allowing for futures to be reimagined and rewritten.
YOU AND ME Development History
New Dramatists Workshop March 14–17 2018. With Kimberly Chatterjee (KATEY), Audrey Rae McHale (NIKI), Angel Desai (KATHERINE), Tracy Michailidis (NICOLE). Ben Krywosz, director. Marc Chan, music director.
New Dramatists Workshop May 3–4 2018. With Kimberly Chatterjee (KATEY), Audrey Rae McHale (NIKI), Camille Harris (KATHERINE), Tracy Michailidis (NICOLE). Marc Chan, music director.
Dramatists Guild Music Hall Reading June 21 2018. With Liba Vaynberg (KATEY), Audrey Rae McHale (NIKI), Camille Harris (KATHERINE), Tracy Michailidis (NICOLE). Marc Chan, music director.
With Kimberly Chatterjee (YOUNGER KATHERINE), Angel Desai (OLDER KATHERINE),
Audrey Rae McHale (YOUNGER NICOLE) and Tracy Michailidis (OLDER NICOLE)
Recorded Live at New Dramatists March 16 2018
YOU AND ME received extensive workshop time and space as part of New Dramatists’ Jerry A Tishman Playwrights Creativity Fund.