In Your Eyes, Next Musical from Next to Normal's Kitt and Yorkey, to Get Showcase

In Your Eyes, a musical from Next to Normal's Tony-winning collaborators Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, will have a private showcase production at the Village Theatre's Festival of New Musicals in Issaquah, Washington, which runs August 12-15. The show is one of six musicals getting a developmental presentation at the theater, where Yorkey previously served as associate artistic director. Yorkey and Kitt showcased Next to Normal (under its previous title, Feeling Electric) at the Village Theatre in 2002 in a production that starred Louis Hobson as Dan; Hobson is now playing Drs. Madden and Fine in the Broadway production.

In Your Eyes is set at Lakeshore High School, where the students are sent into a full-blown lock down (not to mention a flood of animosity, fear, and insecurity) when a plot of gun violence is suspected. As a group of unsupervised students attempts to make sense of the chaos, they end up learning more about themselves and their classmates—from the troubled rocker spitting lyrics, to the sarcastic fashionista pointing fingers from her pedestal." No casting has been announced for the showcase production.

Also on tap during the Festival of New Musicals is It Shoulda Been You (music by Barbara Anselmi, book and lyrics by Brian Hargrove), Buddy’s Tavern (music by Kim Oler, lyrics by Alison Hubbard, book by Raymond De Felitta), Plane Crazy (book, music and lyrics by Suzy Conn), Cloaked (music by Danny Larsen, lyrics by Michelle Elliott and Larsen, book by Elliott) and Lincoln In Love (music by David Friedman, book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg).