Director’s Note:

When I attended ThesCon freshman year, the main stage production was Freaky Friday. After I saw it, I texted Brittany saying “we are doing this show”. Five years later, I would have never thought I would be directing it. 

My love for the story started when I saw Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan’s adaptation of Freaky Friday. I think the reason I liked it so much is because I related to it as an actor. The best way to get in character is to physically become the character. At first, it might feel weird and uncomfortable, similar to the way Curtis and Lohan felt at the beginning of the film. Overtime, you learn to appreciate the character you have adopted. At the end of a production, that character is always stored in a piece of your own personal character. 

Watching the movie back, the 2000’s vibe of the film makes my inner child smile. I wanted to incorporate that Y2K energy into the show. 

This show takes the phrase, “put yourself in someone else’s shoes” very literally. It also makes a statement on many other important conversations like body positivity and positive versus negative family dynamics. I hope our production of the show lights a spark in you the way it lit a spark in me when I saw it. “The power of love is as strong as the power of magic.” Enjoy!

Song List

Prologue
Just One Day
The Hourglass
I Got This
Wedding Tango
Oh, Biology
I Got This - Reprise
Watch Your Back
Parents Lie
I'm Not Myself Today
Go
Tug of War
The Other Hourglass
Today and Ev'ry Day
At Last It's Me

Cast

Creative Team

Photos

Photos taken by Every Piece Belongs Photography LLC
Photos taken by Every Piece Belongs Photography LLC
Photos taken by Every Piece Belongs Photography LLC
Photos taken by Every Piece Belongs Photography LLC
Photos taken by Every Piece Belongs Photography LLC
Photos taken by Every Piece Belongs Photography LLC

Thank you to the following:

Emma Chandler and the Thompson Valley High School Theatre Department, Kari Armstrong and the Poudre Valley High School Theatre Department, JD Jacob and the Mountain View High School Theatre Department, Brandon and Lauren Harrington, Christa Adams and Aly Kerr.

Author Bio: Brigit Carpenter

A playwright, television writer, and producer, Carpenter created the 2016 miniseries "11.22.63" for Bad Robot and Hulu from Stephen King's bestselling novel. "11.22.63" premiered at the Sundance Festival, was nominated for a Writers Guild Award, and won the Saturn Award for best limited series.

Prior to "11.22.63," she wrote and co-executive-produced all five seasons of the Peabody Award-Winning series Friday Night Lights. She was a Consulting Producer for HBO's Westworld and a Co-Executive Producer for Parenthood. In 2013 she was the Executive Producer/Showrunner for the Sundance Channel drama series The Red Road.

Carpenter's plays have been produced by Steppenwolf, the Public Theater, the Alley Theatre, La Jolla Rep, Berkeley Repertory Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and many other theaters across the country. She has written several songs for film (Basmati Blues; Dear Dumb Diary) and has adapted Freaky Friday as a movie musical for the Disney Channel, airing in 2018. Most recently, she was awarded the Princess Grace Statue.

Awards: a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship, a McKnight Grant, the Princess Grace Award, the Kesselring Prize, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. WGA and Emmy nominations for Friday Night Lights. Her plays Fall, Up and The Faculty Room are published by Samuel French.

An alumnae of New Dramatists, Carpenter received her BA and MFA from Brown University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Chris Harrison, and their children, Rita and Henry.

Author Bio: Tom Kitt

TOM KITT is a two-time Tony, two-time Emmy, Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award winner. As a musical theater composer, he has written the music for six Broadway shows: Next to Normal (Tony Award), If/Then (Tony Nomination), Almost Famous (Tony Nomination), Flying Over Sunset (Tony Nomination), High Fidelity, and Bring it On, The Musical. His work for the stage has also been seen Off Broadway at Second Stage (Next to Normal, Superhero), The Public Theater (The Visitor, Shakespeare in the Park) and he has worked at some of the most prestigious regional theaters including The Old Globe, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, The Signature Theater, and ART.

In addition, Tom’s Broadway credits as an orchestrator include: Next to Normal (Tony Award), The SpongeBob Musical (Tony Nomination), Jagged Little Pill (Tony Nomination), Almost Famous, Head Over Heels, Everyday Rapture, and American Idiot.

Tom has also been active in the world of film and TV. As one of the vocal arrangers working on the Pitch Perfect films, Tom most notably helped create the classic “Riff-off.” Tom also served as music supervisor/arranger/orchestrator for Grease Live and contributed songs for Royal Pains and Penny Dreadful. He also provided music supervision for the NBC series, Rise and has written numerous songs for Sesame Street. And he is known for his two original opening numbers for The Tony Awards, “Live” in 2019, written with David Javerbaum for James Corden, and the Emmy Award winning “Bigger” in 2013, written with Lin-Manuel Miranda for Neil Patrick Harris. Tom is also proud that his musical adaptation of Freaky Friday, co-written with Bridget Carpenter and Brian Yorkey was turned into an original movie musical for Disney Channel. Most recently, Tom served as a Supervising Music Producer on the new Bobby Lopez/Kristen Anderson-Lopez/Steven Levenson/Thomas Kail musical television series Up Here.

Author Bio: Brian Yorkey

Brian Yorkey received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2009 Tony Award for Best Score, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Next to Normal and was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. He partnered again with the Next to Normal team on If/Then (Tony Award Nominee for Best Score) starring Idina Menzel. Brian co-wrote the libretto for The Last Ship (Outer Critics Nomination, with John Logan), with a score by Sting. He wrote lyrics for the Disney Theatricals musical adaptation of Freaky Friday, which also became a Disney Channel Original Movie. Brian most recently served as the Executive Producer and Co-Showrunner for the Netflix series Echoes. Prior to that, Brian was the Creator, Executive Producer and Showrunner of 13 Reasons Why for Netflix and Paramount Television. He has also directed for theatre and television. Brian is a graduate of Columbia University, where he was artistic director of the Varsity Show, an alum of the BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, the WGA, and the DGA.

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