10-MINUTE MUSICAL COLLECTION
Book, Music, & Lyrics by
Timothy Huang
Comedy
A Relative Relationship
Emerson Junior High, Vice Principal's Office, 2:30PM. When Carmen Soledad and Simon Pang are caught cheating on a test in their Bible Myth and Epic class and forced by their sadistic Vice Principal to decide which of the two of them should be expelled, tensions rise. What starts as an epic struggle between the nerd and the princess quickly escalates into a name-calling, hair-pulling, low-blowing feud between two natural enemies. Can they find peace in an otherwise chaotic world?
Overview
Cast Size
1m, 2f
Duration
13-15 Mins
Setting
Junior High Vice Principal’s Office, Present
Subgenre
Farce, Cartoon Violence
Themes
Adolescence/Childhood, Friendship, Love, Marriage
Target Audience
Teen (Age 14 - 18), Young Adult (Age 18 - 23)Adult
Style
Contemporary Musical Theatre
Instrumentation
Piano/Vocal, Bass
Additional Resources
Accompaniment Tracks
Cautions
Mild Language
Casting Information
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Carmen Soledad - 15 years old. 9th grade. Girl. Of Ecuadorean ancestry. Third or fourth generation. i.e., American. A princess to her father, to everyone else, something decidedly-less. She should be played by a grown woman.
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Simon Pang - 15 years old. 9th grade. Boy. Korean American. 2nd Generation. Not a band geek, but not really cool either. Likes rules. Studies. He should be played by a grown man.
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Vice Principal Delancy - Somewhere between Sue Sylvester and Dr. Perry Cox, Professor Moriarty and Wyle E. Coyote, Vice Principal Delancy is the marriage of insensitivity with bitterness, dispassion and sadism all wrapped in a warm, fuzzy poncho of be quiet.
Note: While these roles were originally intended to be played by adults, they could be played by actors 15 years and older.
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Production History
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2010 - A Relative Relationship was originally written as part of the BMI Lehman Engel first year musical theater lab. Later that year It was presented at Don’t Tell Mama, as part of the Are You Working On Something New series produced by Will TN Hall and Emmy Laybourne, and featured
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2013 - first annual SOUND BITES festival at the Puerto Rican Travelling Theater. *Winner Best Musical, and then was included in the BMI edition of NYTB in the D-Lounge, produced and curated by Pat Cook and Rick Freyer of BMI, and Joe Barros and Laura Brandel of New York Theatre Barn.
Author Bios
TIMOTHY HUANG’s works have been produced at Prospect Theater Company, NYTB, and Baayork Lee’s National Asian Artists Project (Andy Pickets, 2 to Wakefield, Crossing Over respectively) He is the creator of the one person musical The View From Here and his song “Everything I Do, You Do” was recorded by Sutton Foster for the charity album Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project. His full length American Morning was the recipient of the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award, the 2015 New American Musical Award, the 2015 NAMT Festival of New Musicals, ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop, and the BMI Master Class hosted by Stephen Sondheim. Other works: And the Earth Moved, Death and Lucky, LINES: A Song Cycle, Missing Karma (Finalist Sam French OOBF 2015, City Theater of Miami 2016) and A Relative Relationship (Best Musical, 2013 SOUND BITES Festival). Dramatists Guild Council, MacDowell Fellow, BMI Advanced Workshop. www.timothyhuang.net
