My Favorite Year

It’s 1954, and Benjy Stone, freshman writer on TV’s King Kaiser Comedy Cavalcade, is assigned the daunting task of baby-sitting veteran Hollywood swashbuckler Alan Swann while he’s doing a live guest appearance on the show. The effort to keep the reckless Swann off the booze and out of the papers during the rehearsal week nearly drives Benjy to the brink, when he’s given an unexpected glimpse into Swann’s broken heart that teaches him about human frailty, tragedy, comedy, love – and about what made 1954 his favorite year.

Based on the hit film starring Peter O’Toole and Mark Linn-Baker, My Favorite Year is a solid book show in the tradition of Broadway’s classic musicals, with a bright, tuneful, contemporary score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Once On This Island, Ragtime). It’s a nostalgic and very moving comedy about growing up which is sure to put a smile on your lips and a tear in your eye.