PASTURE-IZED

Book by Ken Merrell

Music by Eileen Soskin

Lyrics by Ken Merrell and Eileen Soskin

Directed by Ken Merrell

Musical Direction by Karen Heather

When Broadway Producer/Director, Jerry Hardwick, suffers a stress-related heart attack, his well-meaning family convinces him to give up show business and retire to sleepy, low-key, Whidbey Island. Everything looks like it’s going to plan when the theater bug bites Jerry again, and instead of moving into the cushy retirement community his kids have all set up, he buys a tumble-down community theater and goes back into production mode. Romance, greedy heirs, lost wills, theatre, art, a ghost, and quantum mechanics all converge in this musical commentary on not exiting stage right just because someone else has decided it’s your cue.