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Killer Stilts (AKA-The Hole In My Heart...)
-Lily is a successful jazz singer who seems to have “everything” in life she is supposed to have to be happy. She is beautiful, rich, self aware, adored by her audience and admired by her peers. Yet she is tortured by the voices in her head, she is in a relentless battle, a torturous conflict with her Ego and her Spirit, her dark and her light. The two voices have become so real to her that they have manifested into 3 dimensional characters who accompany her in every aspect of her life, from the stage to her dressing room. We meet her on the night she has decided to commit suicide. Her attempt is thwarted by a handsome love interest, an ethereal analysis of her psyche’s development, and a series of comedic battles between Lily, Ego and Spirit. Will she reach her end or will she find an alternative reality?"-
A Dramatic Musical Comedy in 2 Acts
Script, Music and Lyrics Written by:
--Susan Faucon
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“I’ve seen all the great contemporary women jazz vocalists from Cassandra Wilson to Diana Krall,” comments the journalist/author/documentary filmmaker Martin Torgoff, who covered music as a producer for CNN Worldbeat. “Susan’s original jazz is elegant and profound, her new script, Killer Stilts, is smart, insightful and funny, her characters are provocative and well defined, put these together and you have a brilliant piece of musical theatre filled with rich, vibrant spectacle and exquisite dramatic expression."