Welcome to the newly resurrected website of The Last Session, the multi-award winning cult 1998 hit off-Broadway musical. Written by Jim Brochu and Steve Schalchlin, authors of the musical The Big Voice: God or Merman? (along with Brochu's Zero Hour for which he won the Drama Desk Award.

Consisting of five characters, one set, a whole lot of heart and soul, The Last Session's gospel inflected score reaches out to communities of people who otherwise never go near a theatre. It manages to inspire laughs and tears while confronting many social, religious, health and political issues.

MORE GENERAL INFORMATION:

The Last Session was nominated for Best Musical by the New York Drama League and the New York Outer Critics Circle. The subsequent Los Angeles production, produced by the Laguna Playouse, received 5 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards including Best Production, Best Book, Best Music & Lyrics and Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, Michele Mais. It also received Outstanding Los Angeles Theatre Production by the prestigious GLAAD Media Awards along with the PFLAG-LA Oscar Wilde Award for promoting understanding through the arts. It has been produced by both professional and amateur companies all over the country, including Houston, Dallas, Denver, Baltimore, Omaha, Rochester NY, Indianapolis and (at Northeastern University) Boston.

Rights to produce The Last Session are available through Samuel French in New York. This site will be updated soon and on a regular basis. Please visit composer Steve Schalchlin's Living In The Bonus Round website, an online diary that contains a full backstage look at each production of The Last Session plus information about cast recordings.

You can order the NY original cast album from:
Espy Music Group
5217 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601

818 506-6331
818 506-4735 (fax)

 

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