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| Gabe Barre directed the World Premiere of Time After Time
February - March, 2010 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse
Gabe Barre directed a reading of Time After Time on August 28th, 2009 starring Andy Karl, Matt Bogart, Lauren Kennedy and Mandy Gonzalez see Broadway World see Playbill see Peter Filichia's review of the reading on TheaterMania
Praise for the creators of Time After Time 
Buy the CD on Amazon.com | "Jeff Saver and Stephen Cole have created a body of theatre songs that is seductive, sophisticated and scintillating." – Harvey Schmidt
"Messrs. Saver and Cole's collection of new songs is warm and winning, and so easy on the ears. Jeff Saver is an accomplished composer with an impressive career in musical theater, and on this recording he is served by some of the best voices on Broadway." – Hal Prince
"This is a splendid collection of theatre songs - songs marked by deft, witty, intelligent lyrics, and music that is, in turn, exciting, fresh, lyrical and infectious." – Sheldon Harnick
"The wit, warmth and rich musicality of these songs by Stephen Cole and Jeff Saver are good news for the future of the American musical." – John Kander
“…Saver can write music that is melodic, thoughtful and intriguing, and Cole writes with wit and feeling… arresting songs that soar” – Steven Suskin, PLAYBILL (read the full review) |
In 2007 there was a reading of "Time After Time" by the Northwestern University American Music Theater Project. Read more about it on the AMTP webpage. | |
Program from August 2009 reading
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Synopsis of Time After Time Book & Lyrics by Stephen Cole Music by Jeffrey Saver Based on the novel by Karl Alexander
In TimeDavid Hibbard, Stephen Buntrock
In London, 1893 HG Wells invents a time machine that will help him prove to the world that there will be a “utopia” in about 100 years.
When his friend, Dr. John Leslie Stephenson, is unmasked as being the infamous Jack the Ripper, John steals HG’s machine and escapes the police. The machine returns (it has a built in homing device) and HG follows John to apprehend him.
HG lands in modern day New York and is amazed by the nighttime lights of Times Square. At first he thinks he has found Utopia, but soon finds it is anything but. Meanwhile, John goes on a contemporary killing spree.
Watch My Interest Accrue
Liz Callaway
At the bank exchanging pounds for dollars, HG meets Amy Catherine Robbins and they immediately are attracted and make a date for that evening.
What’ll You Have
Anna Eilinsfeld
We find John (Amy had served him earlier and recommended a hotel) at a hotel bar where John has made the acquaintance of a cocktail waitress named Carol, with whom he makes a date for that evening. Carol reminds John of his sister. The sister who became his first victim many years ago.
More Than I Had Ever Dared To DreamWalter Charles
Carol and John are interrupted by the arrival of HG. John takes HG to his room and HG tries to get John to return to his own time. John refuses; a fight and a chase ensue, ending with John escaping.
One Little Day
Judy Blazer, Liz Callaway, Christian Borle
That night both Amy and Carol wait for their respective dates, as HG ponders his current situation.
The Dream Has Just BegunLiz Callaway
Carol is stood up by John, but HG and Amy get to know each other. By the end of the evening it is clear that HG will be spending the night at Amy’s.
The next morning HG hears the news that John (aka the New York Ripper) has struck again. The city is in a panic and uproar. HG goes to the police and helps a sketch artist draw a likeness of his former friend. To ward off HG and get the key to the machine which would allow him to escape to another time, John shows up at Amy’s bank and subtly threatens her life. At the end of Act One, Amy is terrified and confused (she has no idea these are time travelers) and wants nothing more to do with HG.
END OF ACT I
ACT II opens HG trying to make up with Amy. He charms her into talking to him when he claims that he has never used an ATM machine. This is true of course.
(This song was cut from the show before the August 2009 reading, but it is a cute song and Christian Borle is amazing so I'm leaving it here for your enjoyment!)
Playing To Win
David Hibbard, Lauren Kennedy, Stephen Buntrock
(Ens: Julie Conners, Rachel Edmunds, Caroline Kaiser, Bernard Dotson, Mary Ann Lamb, Phil Pineno, Sarah Macdonald)
Amy forces HG to reveal his true identity and the existence of the time machine. Amy doesn’t believe him until he proves it with a trip three days into the future, where they discover via a newspaper that Amy is one of John’s next victims. They return to three days before and plan how to prevent the next murder.
No One in the World
Liz Callaway, Christian Borle
After failing to save the previous victim they must now try to avoid Amy’s death. Amy is clearly in love with HG and now trusts him completely. He returns this love.
HG waits outside with a gun for John while Amy stays in a neighbor’s apartment. But HG gets arrested and Amy goes back to her apartment to call and cancel dinner with her friend Carol. Before she can make the call, John shows up. Amy hides and when the front door opens, John pulls his scalpel and rips as the lights blackout.
Time After Time
Christian Borle
At the police station HG is informed that Amy was killed. He is devastated and b lames himself. He decides to return to his own time in the machine.
Before he can leave, John comes out of the shadows holding a knife at Amy’s throat. Amy wasn’t killed. It was the unfortunate visitor. John is using Amy as a hostage now to get the key that will make the machine his forever. When Amy reveals to HG that the victim was Carol, who happened on the scene by mistake. John begins to fall apart. He didn’t even see her face, but killed her just the same. HG uses this chink in John’s armor to get Amy released. John sees a vision of both his sister and Carol and they beckon him to the other side. John pulls a stop on the machine that makes whomever is in it disintegrate into molecules. Amy and HG are left with the machine and after much convincing Amy agrees that love is the only thing that counts and she goes with HG back to 1893 to begin their destiny, for it is a well known fact that they married and had children and lived out their lives with love.
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