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Scott Miller

SCOTT MILLER

  (1964 - )
Nationality:    USA
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SCOTT MILLER has been directing and writing musicals since 1981 and is the founder and artistic director of New Line Theatre in St. Louis, the country's only alternative musical Theatre company. Miller has written the book, music, and lyrics for nine musicals and two plays, and his 1999 play Head Games has enjoyed successful runs in St. Louis, Los Angeles, London, in various cities throughout the UK, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. His 2006 musical Johnny Appleweed was nominated for four Kevin Kline Awards. With a degree in music and musical Theatre from Harvard, Scott has written six books on musical Theatre, From Assassins to West Side Story, Deconstructing Harold Hill, Rebels with Applause, Let the Sun Shine In: the Genius of HAIR, Strike Up the Band: A New History of Musical Theatre, and Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and Musicals, coming in fall 2011. He also appeared in the 2008 documentary, Hair: Let the Sun Shine In. Scott co-hosts Break a Leg: Theatre in St. Louis and Beyond every Monday night on KDHX 88.1 FM in St. Louis and his blog is online at http://newlineTheatre.blogspot.com.

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below is a list of Scott Miller's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Adam's Apple         Astro Turf         Attempting the Absurd         Breaking Out In Harmony         Head Games         Hot Cup Of Murder, A         I Was A 12 Year Old Frankenstein         In the Blood         Johnny Appleweed         Line, The         Musical         Topsiders

Adam's Apple

Synopsis:
High school comedy about Adam and his choice between the school bad girl and the school good girl

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Affton High School    -

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Musical

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Astro Turf

Synopsis:
Five astronomers from the past try to present their ideas in song

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Genre:
Twenty minute musical

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Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Attempting the Absurd

Synopsis:
Jason is convinced that he is a character in a musical. Everyone thinks he is mad. He sets out with his best friend Chaz to prove it.

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Genre:
Musical. - - Gay/Lesbian, musical

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Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Breaking Out In Harmony

Synopsis:
Parents break into the High School library and destroy books they disapprove of. they are taken to court by their children

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Head Games

Synopsis:
A director writes a frothy sexy gay play with plenty of nudity in an effort to recoup losseson previous earnest programming

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1st Produced:
St Mark's theatre    1999

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New Line Theatre

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hot Cup Of Murder, A

Synopsis:
A candidate is murdered at his own fundraising dinner. His family try to hide this from the other guests but in the end decide that it would be better to blackmail them to keep it secret

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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I Was A 12 Year Old Frankenstein

Synopsis:
Orson Welsh twelve year old directing prodigy is about to start his new movie but a dead milk lady, his unbearable mother and a stroppy cast all conspire against him

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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In the Blood

Synopsis:
A gay vampire in the age of AIDS

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iUnverse.com 2000   -

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Gay, full length

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Johnny Appleweed

Synopsis:
the stoner political satire about a friendly, itinerant stoner-philosopher and his friends who visit the White House to convince the President to change his conservative ways.

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New Line theatre    2006

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Genre:
Musical

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Line, The

Synopsis:
Based on a real-life book-banning case (same source story as Miller's other musical "Breaking Out in Harmony")

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1st Produced:
CenterStage Theatre Co.    1985

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Genre:
musical

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Musical

Synopsis:
A story of characters unable to finish the musical they're in.

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Harvard Off-Key Musical Theatre Co.    1983

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Topsiders

Synopsis:
A concept musical about the over-achievers at Harvard University

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1st Produced:
Harvard Off-Key Musical Theatre Co.    1984

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Genre:
Musical

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