Joshua Vranas
Book, Music, Lyrics
Nearly Neighbors
A Chamber Musical in Twelve Months
Two opposing Hell’s Kitchen balconies. Twelve months. An unlikely connection between a tech founder and the neighbor across from her.
In development, with Jenn Colella as Stacy in the developmental reading.
About The Show
Nearly Neighbors is a chamber musical about the power of proximity, and what happens in the space between.
Set across two opposing balconies in Hell's Kitchen, the show begins when Rachel, a recently successful tech founder, moves into a new luxury apartment and comes face-to-face with Stacy, a longtime New Yorker who has little interest in being impressed.
Over the course of a year, what starts as irritation turns into conversation, then reluctant collaboration, as Rachel pulls Stacy into building a new business idea.
Nearly Neighbors is about the cost and the gain of witnessing another, and being witnessed in return. It asks: once someone sees you clearly, can you go back to being unknown?
Told through an intimate, piano-driven score, the music follows a year of conversations between two balconies, capturing the humor and fracture lines of a relationship as it evolves.
The Team
Jade King Carroll
Director
Sujin Kim-Ramsey
Music Director
Addie Saltz
Casting Director
Jenn Colella
Stacy
Ash Marie Alina
Lead Producer
Nikita Chernin
Lead Producer
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