A NEW MUSICAL ABOUT A
DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY

PLAGUED BY GREED, ADDICTION,
AND THE REVELATION OF

A LONG BURIED SECRET

The new musical Love & Southern D!scomfort has music and lyrics by Bobby Daye (Aladdin, The Color Purple), book and lyrics by Monica L. Patton (The Book of Mormon, Finian’s Rainbow). When dowager Mrs. Catheine Dejoie, of polite Louisiana society, dies, she leaves the entire estate to her estranged granddaughter, Milla, but only if Milla comes home from her self-imposed, decade-long exile to bury Catherine. Milla reluctantly leaves her life in France and returns to her ancestral home, a sprawling postbellum Southern mansion, and to her mother, a faded alcoholic debutante undone by the burden of bearing the family’s legacy. With the help of the family’s cherished maid, the women begin to repair their relationship until the reconciliation grinds to a sudden halt when a long-held secret is uncovered.

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Love & Southern D!comfort received its world premiere production at South of Broadway Theatre Company in January 2020, a concept album of the show is forthcoming, and a single of the song “Liquid Courage” by Broadway veteran Ramona Keller was recently released.

* FEATURING PERFORMANCES by *

NIKKI M. JAMES

(THE BOOK OF MORMON)