2023
Breakdown
Written by Michael Gene Sullivan and Marie Cartier
Music & Lyrics by Daniel Savio
Directed by Michael Gene Sullivan
Music Direction by Daniel Savio
Choreography by AeJay Mitchell
BREAKDOWN features Andre Amarotico* (Mr. Steréos, Matt, Rupert, Demon); Jamella Cross* (Marcia Stone, A Business Woman, Heather); Alicia M. P. Nelson* (Saidia, Mrs. Noe Valley, Charlie); Jed Parsario* (Felix, Brad, Greg, Annette, Demon, An Actor); Kina Kantor* (Yume, Operator); Taylor Gonzalez (FOX AD)
And band members Breakfast (Keys, Strings, Winds, Additional Percussion); Guinevere Q (Bass, Additional Percussion); and Jason Young (Drums, Percussion, Mandolin).
For most of the citizens of increasingly intolerant San Francisco a young woman like Yume living on the streets seems “crazy,” but maybe Yume is just ahead of the curve. Unbalanced? Unhinged? Nuts? In a country that has clearly lost its mind, what do any of those words mean anymore? As her social worker tries to navigate the Kafkaesque labyrinth of city bureaucracy Yume is on her own quest to regain what has been taken from her.
But up-and-coming FOX News commentator Marcia Stone has no problem with being at the vanguard of driving the nation around the bend. It’s her key to getting a nightly slot on the network, and if she can give her viewers a focus for their fear, a hellhole of depravity and failed policies so much the better! And where better than the filthy, dangerous streets of San Francisco to illustrate for her bosses and audience the depths to which the progressives have dragged us? If only she could find a person on those streets… someone to personify America’s … Breakdown
* The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.