SCENES FROM A SONG
by Susan Sloate | Music Drama
For anyone who's ever said, "They're playing my song..."
Seventeen-year-old Jimmy Welton still mourns his father, a firefighter, killed in a house fire a few months before. Now living in a dingy Bronx apartment instead of the happy Long Island home where he grew up, Jimmy especially misses his father's passion for music; he's the one who taught Jimmy to love music and to play the guitar. On Halloween Eve, 1961, Jimmy hears the opening notes of a song in his mind, a song about all he's recently lost, and takes it with him to the New York amusement park where he works after school. There, he meets Mark Morgan, a rebellious teen with his own band, who eventually invites Jimmy to join them. And the rest is rock'n roll history...
The GooseBumps, the band they form, becomes a worldwide phenomenon, and the songs they write and sing together become the backbone of rock musical history. And the song Jimmy first heard on Halloween, "Wrapped in Gauze", becomes the song that not only comforts him in that terrible time but also comforts others: Victoria, recently divorced and dealing with a family tragedy; Carolyn, whose final flippant words to someone in pain can't be taken back, no matter what she wishes; and Jack, battling back from loss with the help of his therapist and a song he thinks he hates.
SCENES FROM A SONG is the story of a song that makes us smile, that breaks our hearts, that stays with us forever, and the very special band that started it all.
