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In Real Life - A New Musical

Toronto, CANADA - Ok, this one is special to me. This is the project that led to this entire site being created. On March 13, I was at the end of the first week of rehearsals for In Real Life, a new musical - book and lyrics by me (Nick Green), music and lyrics by (the amazing) Kevin Wong. The show is a dystopian sci-fi musical in which youth live and learn technological cubes and little access to the outside world. Sound familiar? Given the times, we decided to continue working the show over Zoom. The cast was unbelievable, the creative team ASTOUNDING (all credited below), and the leadership of director Ann Hodges was deeply inspiring.

In the end, we created a music video of the opening number of the show, called A Million. I am SO proud to share it with you. Enjoy and please share!

Click above to see the video!

Also - check out a bunch of other songs from the show here and in these videos!

“A Million”
From IN REAL LIFE

Book and Lyrics by Nick Green
Music and Lyrics by Kevin Wong

Developed through the The Canadian Music Theatre Project at Sheridan College

Directed by Ann Hodges
Music Direction by Chris Barillaro
Choreography by Janie Pinard
Designed by Joe Pagnan
Video Design and Editing by Nick Bottomley
Backing Track Produced and Edited by Kevin Wong
Orchestrations by Kevin Wong
Stage Manager - Matthew MacInnis
Assistant Stage Manager - Jess Gordon

For Theatre Sheridan and the Canadian Music Theatre Project:
Michael Rubinoff (Producer, Theatre Sheridan / Producing Artistic Director, CMTP)
Marc Richard (Artistic Director, Theatre Sheridan)
Mitch McAnally (Assistant to Michael Rubinoff)

Featuring (in order of vocal appearance)
AMI - Devin Cecchetto
Teacher - Leah Mckenney
Becca - Aveleigh Keller
Tadd - Keenan Smits
Todd - Callum McGann
Max - Daniel Allain
Cal - Alten Wilmot
Jia - Emily McKim

Ensemble:
Devin Alexander
Izaha Cochran
Sydney Cochrane
Danie Dixon
Allison Ference
Dylan Ty Hausdorf
Sinead Kennedy
Kristena McCormack
Bethany Monaghan
Olivia Shad
Isabella Wolder
Haneul Yi

In Real Life co-commissioned by and developed in partnership with The Musical Stage Company.