Set Up and Punch
Productions
Blank Theater Company (Los Angeles)
They write the words, he writes the music. A clever songwriting duo’s promising relationship is blown to bits when they must collaborate with the sex-god singer-composer of a cutting edge rock band.
Playwright: Mark Saltzman
Music: Berton Averre.
Lyrics: Rob Meurer
Nominations
Los Angeles Weekly
Best Musical - 2009
“ ’Setup’ makes the point that joy can be person-specific. Painfully so. That source of delight may leave your life, but the longing for what he or she brings out in you never does. ”
— Los Angeles Times
More Reviews
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“Three pitch-perfect actors draw us into the giddy fun, then sock us in the solar plexus with the rueful emotional reality at the play's core.”
— LA Stage Happenings
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"...deliriously funny and surprisingly touching world- premiere play, revolving around a Rubik's Cube of crisscrossing motivations that prove all's fair in love, war, and fervent showbiz ambitions."
— Backstage