MONKEY MIND: A MUSICAL

Book by Terri Weiss

Music by Gerardo Herrera Benavides

Lyrics by Bill Berry

A teen aged girl with an overactive mind (Monkey Mind played by three characters) tries to get her father out of depression by winning a singing contest.  A singing teacher notices her brain is running her life and tries to teach her to control it by “staying in the now”. The stubborn girl thinks, “Ya Ya” and doesn’t try.  She falls for the teacher’s nephew but worrying about her father, (in the hospital) maybe not being good enough to win, and a fight with the boy, drive her to near suicide before she realizes her mind is, indeed, ruining her life and is ready to try  to “stay in the now”.  A serous subject done with a lot of humor.

Cast Size: 2M 2W 3GN

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Listen to the Music

OPENING

HATE SONG

I KEEP EXPECTING YOU

ONE WITH ME

SINGING LESSON

ANSWERS

ONE STEP AT A TIME

ONE WITH ME

KEEP HOLDING ON

EVERYBODY’S GOT A MONKEY MIND

BECAUSE OF ME

NOW

BE HERE NOW

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About the Creators

Terri Weiss (Writer)  Terri (professionally performed as Terri Baker), felt the urge to write a musical when she realized her singing students had a real problem focusing on their lessons, being distracted by negative mind chatter. Terri, an alcoholic with 38 years sober, learned to control her own mind using a simple method that she’s passing on. 

Deciding her show needed contemporary music, when  a young composer from Peru, Gerardo Herrera, showed up at her doorstep one day to rent a room in her home, she decided it was fate and reworked the show. Thrilled with the end result, the show was produced in 2019 at the Hollywood Fringe.

Terri’s career spans decades from appearing on Broadway, in FADE OUT FADE IN with Carol Burnett and understudied Betsey Palmer in SOUTH PACIFIC at Carnegie’s Judsen Hall, to film where she worked with luminaries such as Jack Benny, Toni Randall and Jane Fonda. She studied voice with all the majors of her day and studied dance with Martha Graham and Matt Mattox. Terri also sang, on the road, for 7 years working at times with the famous Lionel Hampton orchestra. 

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