Hands on a Hardbody

Nominee! 2013 Outer Critics Circle Award - Outstanding New Broadway Musical & Outstanding New Score

Nominee! 2013 Drama Desk Award - Outstanding Musical & Outstanding Lyrics & Outstanding Book of a Musical

For 10 hard-luck Texans, a new lease on life is so close they can literally touch it ...

Under a scorching sun for days on end, armed with nothing but hope, humor and ambition, they'll fight to keep at least one hand on a brand-new truck in order to win it

In the hilarious, hard-fought contest only one winner can drive away with the American Dream

But who will it be ... ?

CHARACTERS:

JD DREW - 60; a "good old boy" with pomaded gray hair and a high-wattage grin

KELLI MANGRUM - 22; a pretty brunette with steel ambition

BENNY PERKINS - mid-40s; lanky frame, weather-beaten face, ingratiating grin and lots of homespun philosophy

GREG WILHOTE - early 20s; a freckled white kid in a baseball cap

JESUS PENA - 20s; a driven Mexican kid

CHRIS ALVARO - well-built under his hoodie, a pair of aviator glasses conceal his eyes

RONALD MCCOWAN - 35; a goodnatured African-American with a slight Louisiana accent

HEATHER STOVALL - 29; a flirtatious blonde restaurant hostess

VIRGINIA DREW - a one-time beauty settling into middle-age

MIKE FERRIS - late 30s; boyishly handsome, wears a cheap tie with a Nascar clip

CINDY BARNES - former Miss Gregg County, still fond of pageant hair and pastels

NORMA VALVERDE - a stout Latina woman in tennis shoes and a floral applique t-shirt

JANIS CURTIS - a tough old bird with sun-burnished skin and missing teeth

DON CURTIS - wears a cardboard sign on his head that proclaims "I LOVE YOU JANIS, GO BABY GO!"

FRANK NUGENT - Disc Jockey, a diehard good ole boy dressed in a Stetson

DOCTOR STOKES - a professor from LeTourneau University

CLICK THE SPEAKER FOR A SONG SAMPLE:

Human Drama Kind Of Thing
If I Had This Truck
If She Don't Sleep
My Problem Right There
Alone With Me
Burn That Bridge
I'm Gone

REVIEWS:

"You can hear the sound of America singing in this daring new musical" ~ The New York Times

"Completely, satisfyingly right!" ~ Wall Street Journal

"Hands down it's musical theatre heaven!" ~ New York Magazine

"Strikes a fresh note for American musical theatre" ~ The New York Times