MTI musical · Full-length
Starting Here, Starting NowScript, Piano/Vocal Score & show details
- Full-length · 2 acts
- Small cast (up to 10), flexible
- Roles: 2 women · 1 men
- PG‑13
The printed Starting Here, Starting Now script comes with your MTI license. The digital version is a separate add-on for your whole cast and crew. See pricing
Starting Here, Starting Now synopsis
Music by David Shire · Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.
Starting Here, Starting Now is a thrilling and touching musical revue using the songs of Richard Maltby, Jr., and David Shire (Big, Baby, Closer Than Ever). In only 24 songs, Starting Here, Starting Now offers a tender-tough inventory of love and the lonesome lack thereof. Made for each other, the wry lyrics of Richard Maltby, Jr., combined with David Shire‘s buoyant music, forge a fast-moving, ingratiating look at how love can go right, wrong or nowhere.
Using songs from their various early musicals (produced or otherwise), this bold, extroverted journey takes a winsome cast of three through the maze of modern relationships with its heart firmly on its sleeve. As with all of Maltby and Shire's work, each song is an impeccably crafted story – original, engaging, bursting with character and showcasing the versatility and charisma of its performer.
From tender ballads to hysterical husband-hunting laments, from wry comments on trendy marriages to ecstatic shouting-from-the-rooftop celebration, Starting Here, Starting Now has an appealing freshness that has made it a perennial favorite throughout the world.
Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire join us in this video conversation piece to discuss their musicals Starting Here and Starting Now and Closer Than Ever, two very different musicals with a very incredible team behind them.
Synopsis courtesy of Music Theatre International (MTI).
Starting Here, Starting Now characters & vocal ranges
The Starting Here, Starting Now musical has 3 named roles, for a small cast (up to 10), and the cast size is flexible. Many roles can be cast across gender. ‘Written as’ reflects how MTI lists each role.
| Character | Written as | Vocal range | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woman 1 | Female | C6–A3 | At times she is confident and other times very timid and shy. Starry-eyed, nostalgic and romantic but not without moments of anger, desperation and dismay. |
| Woman 2 | Female | G5–F3 | She is hopeful and naïve, sometimes longing for love and other times wanting nothing to do with it. Quirky and sexy at the same time. |
| Man 1 | Male | Not listed | Bright-eyed. He is suave and slick, with the ability to be sincere and romantic. Very energetic and prone to putting on a front; sometimes falls to reveal skepticism, hurt, and anger. |
Starting Here, Starting Now song list
- I Am in Love
- Starting Here, Starting Now
- I'm a Little Bit Off
- I May Want to Remember Today
- Beautiful
- Crossword Puzzle
- Autumn
- I Don't Remember Christmas
- I Don't Believe It
- I'm Going To Make You Beautiful
- Hey, There Fans
- A Girl You Should Know
- Travel
- Watching The Big Parade Go By
- What About Today?
- One Step
- Song Of Me
- Today Is the First Day Of The Rest Of My Life
- A New Life Coming
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