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10-MINUTE MUSICAL COLLECTION

Book & Lyrics by
Jamie Buxton
Music by Sean Eads

Fantasy

Moonphase

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Hjuki and Bil’s home planet is losing light, so the siblings must travel to a nearby planet to fetch a pail of moonrays to bring back home before nightfall. But a mysterious man has other plans for them.

Overview

Cast Size

3 (2m, 1f)

Duration

13 Min.

Setting

Another planet

Subgenre

N/A

Themes

Family, Space Travel

Target Audience

All Ages

Style

Dream pop

Instrumentation

Piano

Additional Resources

Plunk Tracks, Demos

Cautions

N/A
Synopsis

Casting Information

HJUKI - Teen male, a confident young man with a jock persona, protective of his sister. Pop tenor.
BIL - Teen female, a bookish young woman who loves her brother. Pop soprano. 

MANI - Adult male or non-binary character, The Man in the Moon. A mysterious and alluring showman with a pure heart. Bass, or Tenor/Low Alto.

Songs

Opening
00:00 / 01:46
Gonna Fetch a Pail of Moonrays
00:00 / 01:07
Fetching
00:00 / 01:02
Fully Full
00:00 / 06:09
Casting & Songs
Media

Media

Production History

Production History
Author's Bios

Author Bios

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JAMIE BUXTON as Bookwriter/Lyricist: Quillén, composer Pablo Concha: New York Theater Festival (2022), Latiné Musical Theatre Lab (2021); Moonphase, composer Sean Eads (audio musical 2020); The Fox, composer Lucy O'Brien: Bishopsgate Institute, London (2019); as contributing author: Fifty Key Stage Musicals, Routledge Press (2021); as composer: Marrying Jake Gyllenhaal, writer Melissa Center: Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2021), Los Angeles Pico Theatre (2020); as writer (stage): First Date with Henry the Eighth, Shiyr Productions NYC (2019); as writer (film): My First Start, dir. Victoria Clark, Amazon Prime (2019).

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SEAN EADS is a composer, game designer, and educator. He is a graduate of Vassar College (BA, Media Studies) and NYU (MFA, Musical Theatre Writing). His original musical The Blazing World, written with librettist Brandy Hoang Collier, was presented as part of the Polyphone Festival of Emerging Musicals in 2021. He has toured internationally as a keyboardist and songwriter, and you can find his original music under the moniker Triangle Park. He is currently based in Austin, TX.

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