Rainy Day People

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Sean Stone

Based on the play by Todd McCullough

 

Rainy Day People is a darkly comic musical that follows a dysfunctional troupe of depressed New Yorkers trying to find happiness. Zack is a pessimistic journalist who has turned his personal misery into a paycheck, writing a column celebrating sadness. Zoe is a clinically depressed bookstore clerk who is composing a musical based on Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground. They might have met and fallen in love and lived happily ever after, but who believes in that stuff anymore? Rainy Day People asks what it takes to be happy, or if happiness is even possible at all.