Welcome to the 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 award-winning musical The Big Voice: God or Merman?, there is increasing new interest in The Last Session as it is continually revived around the United States. Steve is also the composer of New World Waking! Songs on the Road to Peace, Inspired by John Lennon's Piano and Jim is the writer/performer of the award-winning Zero Hour about the great Broadway and film actor, Zero Mostel.

Consisting of five characters, one set, a whole lot of heart and soul, The Last Session's gospel inflected score pits a fundamentalist Baptist in the same recording session with a gay former Gospel singer. Modern and cutting edge, its contemporary style reaches out to communities of people who otherwise never go near a theatre. It manages to provoke laughs and tears while confronting many social, religious, health and political issues.

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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
P.O. Box 869 
Cedar Creek, Texas 78612
Ph: 512 308-1593
Fax: 512 308-0920

 

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