​It all began..
with a girl and a dream: to show the world that Sex and the City lied to us all. The girl’s take on the real single woman's journey through the wilds of NYC became Hot Mess In Manhattan, a monthly evening of ever-changing comedy and music. The show garnered a huge fan base, a 2009 Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) Award, and eleven original, upbeat songs that have taken the Internet by storm, with over 63,000 YouTube hits. Inspired, the girl set about evolving the show into a full-scale book musical, and three years, five drafts, and a lot of smudged eye-liner later…
​Hot Mess In Manhattan: The Musical will have a two-week developmental production this fall in association with New York Theatre Barn and The Araca Project, a program of The Araca Group (Wicked, Rock of Ages, Urinetown). Hot Mess In Manhattan: The Musical is a 90-minute musical comedy with a libretto by Cait & Meggie Doyle​, a score by 12 of NYC's hottest new musical theater writers, and directed by David Ruttura (Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Follies).
PRODUCTION HISTORY
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Hot Mess in Manhattan: the Musical had developmental residencies in 2010 at the Trustus Theatre in North Carolina and in 2011 at the Encore Theatre Company in Ohio, where it garnered several regional theatrical award nominations including Outstanding New Work, Best Leading Actress, and won the award for Best Musical Ensemble.
Hot Mess in Manhattan’s beginnings as a one-woman show led to a 2009 Manhattan Association of Cabaret and Clubs (MAC) Award for Best Female Debut for Cait Doyle. That same year, several song contributions to HMIM received MAC nominations for Best Song, including: Union Square (Gaby Alter), The Mess (Ryan Scott Oliver), Running (Adam Gwon), and Dear, Carrie Bradshaw (Ryan Cunningham & Joshua Salzman).