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THE FOOTNOTES
Book, Music & Lyrics by Jack B. Murphy
Currently in development, THE FOOTNOTES is a gay, Irish, time travel musical. It follows exes Eamon and Oliver as they accidentally time travel back to 1916 Belfast. As they struggle to find a way back home, they are forced to contend with their shared history (and literal history), and they might just find their way back to each other.
Inspired by works like ONCE, ABOUT TIME, & Octavia E. Butler’s KINDRED, the show traces the musical lineage of artists like Hozier back to traditional Irish folk and examines the queer stories history has confined to the margins, or buried in the footnotes.
LILAC
Book, Music, & Lyrics by Bailey Baker & Jack B. Murphy
This is the story of Matt, a young novelist, his workaholic boyfriend, John, and the power of writing at a time where every word matters.
LILAC began as two songs in a short musical piece which premiered as part of a new musical festival produced by Playwrights Performance Group at Shenandoah Conservatory. It was later expanded into a full-length musical which was then workshopped as part of Shenandoah’s inaugural Student Performance Week (now ShencoLAB) and presented in the culminating Festival of Arts, Ideas, and Exploration in the Fall of 2018. In March of 2019, Lilac was presented as a public staged reading at the Winchester, Virginia Bright Box Theatre for two sold out performances.