Only Human
Only Human is an original musical about a small town, a movie star, humanity, death, and pigs.
The show introduces us to the rural townsfolk of Blump, who distract themselves from life’s harder truths with celebrity worship and the stories they tell each other. But what are they really ignoring, and are they even human at all? The citizens sing and dance about humanity, mortality, celebrity and the trials of a person’s– or is it a pig’s?–life.
Book and lyrics by J.D. Scrimgeour and music by Aidan and Guthrie Scrimgeour.
“…the entire cast is friendly, downright lovable, and every cast member gets lines and a piece of the action.
“And the poetry of lyrics— almost every song— helps that energy to get realized.
The lyrics invite cast members to cross over the fences that hold them — out of the small back yards in their small, slaughterhouse town. They confront the awful sound of Blump. Like the characters in other American musicals, they find “a new way of living.” – Mark Schorr, Mass Poetry
