One Night Only
Monday
October 5
A New Musical
Book, music & lyrics by Blake Allen.
Based on the story “The Ceiling” by Kevin Brockmeier.
Directed by Susan Aston.
The Story
About
The Ceiling
Based on Kevin Brockmeier's acclaimed O. Henry Prize-winning short story, The Ceiling is a poignant new musical that blends magical realism with emotional truth. As an inexplicable phenomenon descends upon their world, a husband and wife confront the growing distance between them, revealing how life's most profound changes often go unnoticed until it is too late.
Blake Allen's score gives musical voice to the story's intimate and increasingly surreal world, illuminating the characters' inner lives as the familiar begins to shift around them. Through music and lyrics, the adaptation expands Brockmeier's meditation on love, distance, and change into a theatrical experience that moves between the deeply personal and the extraordinary.
Featuring
Cast
Christine Dwyer
Melissa
Nathaniel Hackmann
Kevin
Jake Pedersen
Joshua
Elise Frances Daniells
Scarlett
Christine Arand
Bookkeeper
Dared Wright
Wesson / Gleason / Barkeep
Rori Nogee
Rachel
Cory Daniel Gibson
The Banshee / Silent Man
Samantha Schiffman
Bobby / Sheryl
Blake Brundy
Mitch Nauman
Creative & Production
The Company
The Score
Musical Numbers
Act One
- 1.
Rising
Orchestra
- 2.
But There Is Sky Today
All
- 3.
Did You See?
Joshua / All
- 4.
Rich and Strange
Scarlett / All
- 5.
Later That Night
Kevin / Melissa
- 6.
Science is a Blessing…
Scarlett / All
- 7.
Oh, Melissa: Parts 1 & 2
Orchestra
- 8.
July
Kevin / All
- 9.
When Can Go to the Library…
Joshua / Kevin
- 10.
Listen
Melissa
- 11.
To Be a Mother / To Be a Wife
Melissa
- 12.
The Sky is Falling
Book / Joshua / Bobby
- 13.
New Orleans
Scarlett / Girls
- 14.
Train to Nowhere
Rachel / Kevin
- 15.
What Happened to My Summer?
All
- 16.
The Birds Went Away
Joshua
- 17.
What Would You Do When You Know…
Kevin / All
- 18.
O, Gibbous Moon
Bookkeeper
Act Two
- 19.
Intermezzo
Orchestra
- 20.
Brick By Brick
Melissa
- 21.
Smoothe As Obsidian
Scarlett / All
- 22.
Something’s Bound to Happen Soon
Wesson / Kevin
- 23.
Have You Seen My Umbrella?
The Banshee
- 24.
Lights From the Stars
All
- 25.
How I Wish
Kevin
- 26.
The Ceiling Has Descended
All
- 27.
The Grate
Joshua
- 28.
The Pleasure Suite
a. What Would You Do?
Girls / All
b. At the Bacchenale
All
c. Dream Boy
Girls
d. Tomorrow, We Die
All
- 29.
It All Comes Tumbling Down
All
- 30.
One More Night
Melissa
- 31.
Farewell, My Love
Kevin / Joshua
- 32.
Finale
Kevin
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what comes next?
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October 5, 2026 · New York City
THE CEILING
One-night developmental presentation at Le Poisson Rouge.
Tickets at LPR