By Ernest Kearney — Now the funny thing is that the title, We Need This Musical to Stop Us From Killing Ourselves — the Musical! is slightly longer than the show.
Still, Glasgow Lyman and Jeff Rosick have mixed up a silly, stylish, toe-tapping little songfest on the subject of suicide that succeeds in every way.
Rosick plays Dr. Hansen, a psychiatrist with an id of gold.
When two of his patients, Mitch the actor (Lyman) and Sarah the songwriter (Adyn Wood), both, announce they intend to their-own-quietus-make, the caring doctor, in desperation, suggests they write a musical instead of self-slaughter.
Lyman and Rosick fill their very first musical venture with such tuneful ditties as “Shut the F**k Up,” “Looks Like its Suicide for Two,” and the eleventh hour number “Who Cares if You’re a Terrible Person — Don’t Be a Quitter”; which celebrates such social icons as Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein.
Rosick and Wood are superb and Lyman is pretty good too, but as producer he probably had a lot on his mind.
A director would have been a wise idea, but nevertheless Lyman and Rosick have a wickedly wonderful work for their first musical, and a solid GOLD MEDAL
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We Need This Musical to Stop Us From Killing Ourselves — the Musical!
played during the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018
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