Destination Moon, a comic, dramatic, nonmusical musical, will have its first full production this spring in the inaugural 2022-23 season of New York's Garden Level Theatre Co., a grassroots artistic laboratory that breaks storytelling conventions of form and content to harness the empathetic power of innovative and accessible art built for the moment.
Two people in two little rooms.
A young woman, a bed, an unseen voice, music in the night.When we meet Truly in her room at the end of the hall, she is on her way to recovery, having spent years in and out of hospitals combating serious illness since she was a child. She'll be going home soon, with every likelihood of a "normal" life. And that idea terrifies her - when the struggle is gone, when the life ahead can be lived apart from the identity of illness, it is a foreign country, a distant planet without the "thing" that has defined you.
It might as well be the moon.
Truly deals with her uncertainty by writing bad songs, reading odd old books and communing with an unseen voice in the night: "Doc" Miller, an old-school late-night jazz radio announcer, a world-weary storyteller who connects with this person from his own little room.
