Over the Boardwalk - The Musical

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The Russians are sending a woman into space; President Kennedy is signing The Equal Pay Act, and builder/entrepreneur Dirk Golding sees a golden opportunity on the Jersey shore. It's the summer of 1963 and two young men, Bobby and Matthew, once friends, are now separately heading "down the shore" to a New Jersey beach boardwalk. While Bobby dreams of
finally getting the nerve to ask his secret crush, Janet, for a date; Matthew's plotting his revenge on the craggy owner of the Boardwalk Amusement Pier; the woman who fired him five years ago, Grammie G, "Boardwalk Gussie Simeoli."

Melody "Simms" Simeoli, Grammie G's granddaughter, is home from college for the summer, eager to start out on a path toward fame and fortune as a star. She has no intention of following in her late father's formidable footsteps on the boardwalk. She's itching to see and conquer the world.

Her cousin, Candy, an opinionated hairdresser; and best friend, Janet, a brilliant scholar with body image issues, have called themselves "The Shoresters" since high school. They sing on weekends at Big Al's Pizza Palace on the boardwalk while Big Al and Grammie G bicker like fourth graders, and Candy and her long-suffering boyfriend, Anthony, break up and make up as regularly as the tides.

Grammie G's been dealing with the reality of mounting debts left by her only son following a fatal car crash a year ago. She's been trying to shield Melody from the worst of it, but that's about to become impossible.

Golding, an ambitious-some would say ruthless- developer has been making headway with his Jersey Shore "Reinvention Intention." He plans to buy out Grammie G; demolish the place, and construct a ritzy hotel, apartments and retail shops; after he gets out the "riff-raff," of course.

In the months before the Beatles come to America; before our country undergoes a social and cultural "revolution;" while the nation does "The Peppermint Twist," life hits Melody, Matthew, Janet, Bobby, Candy and Anthony smack dab in the face like a giant wave as they discover what really matters to each of them.

OVER THE BOARDWALK

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