About IT MUST BE HIM:
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 Louie Wexler is an aging comedy writer whose career is on the skids. The era of the golden age of variety show television has long been over. He spends his days holed up in his Beverly Hills home that he can no longer afford. With his devoted agent, Ross and his considerably less devoted housekeeper, Ana by his side, Louie finds himself broke, lonely and on the wrong side of middle age. His only bed mate is now his tarnished but un-hockable Emmy award. Louie would love to share his bed with Scott, the sexy young waiter-actor but Scott only occupies the guest house and most of Louie's mind. Unfortunately for Louie, Scott just wants to be "friends." However, naive and hopelessly romantic Louie has gotten it into his head that a relationship with Scott will reinvigorate his career, not to mention his manhood...all misguided passions.

Louie spends his days sparring with Ana, his wisecracking maid; trying to make sense of his hapless and hopeless assistant, Myles; bickering with the spirits of his late parents, Rose and Leo; toying with fantasies of his high school girlfriend, Joan, and his jock brother, Mark; and tinkering with his autobiographical screenplay that he hopes will put him back on top and jump-start his stalled career.

When we first meet Louie, the once erstwhile "top-of-the-heap boob-tube scribe," he's busy working on his latest romantic comedy for the screen. When Ross coaxes him into changing it into a man-to-man narrative, instead of the more traditional boy meets girl plot that Louie's been concocting, Louie resists. Ross' argument is that the same sex premise will be more honest and relevant, since Louie himself has spent a lifetime looking for "Mr. Right," but to no avail. Louie finally decides to listen to Ross and take the leap of faith.

Too bad. When Louie tries to incorporate Ross' suggestion into his script, it's a calamity. In the disastrous table reading, Louie only comes face to face with the bitter truth when the lack of intimacy in his life rears it's ugly head once again.

Once the revamped film incarnation of Louie's disintegrating life is jettisoned, he gets the urge, prompted by his now deceased, but always, "inspiring" parents, to turn the tale into a musical, looking for yet another suitable outlet for his story. That also collapses when he's too brutally frank, and writes an over-the-top sadomasochistic musical, which reveals not only his lack of taste, but his total lack of self worth. Besides this mini-musical, there's also a mini-movie and even a TV game show...without a happy ending.

While it doesn't seem possible or even probable, the ever elusive happy ending might just be right around the corner. And here's a clue. If anybody deserves happiness... IT MUST BE HIM.
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 The play runs approximately ninety minutes and is usually performed without an intermission. If wanted, an intermission could come after Scene Two and Act Two would open with Scene Three, the musical.
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 The show is usually cast with twelve actors, with some doubling.
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 The set is normally built as a unit set with phases.
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 There are no live musicians necessary for the production. A musical track is provided.
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About KENNY SOLMS:

If variety is the spice of life, Kenny Solms has tasted great success. Touted in his hometown newspaper as "Philadelphia's funniest person," he began his career in New York, where he teamed up with New York University classmate Gail Parent to create material for Leonard Sillman's last Broadway revue New Faces, and sketches for New York's famed Upstairs at the Downstairs. His collaboration with Ms. Parent climaxed with their co-creation of the now legendary Emmy award winning Carol Burnett Show.

Following the runaway success of three comedy albums, including the hilarious spoof of the Luci Baines Johnson Wedding, Our Wedding Album and a season of Steve Allen's Comedy Hour, Solms co-created and wrote the first four seasons of the classic Burnett show, for which he also received the Writer's Guild of America Award.

He wrote numerous specials, including those for Julie Andrews, Ann-Margret, Danny Thomas, The Osmonds, Mary Tyler Moore, Bing Crosby, Second City, Lily Tomlin, Dick Van Dyke, Anne Bancroft, Joan Rivers and Bill Cosby.

Sills and Burnett at the Met won him the Peabody Award; Burnett Discovers Domingo, the Montreaux Prize and he also wrote and produced the Emmy Award-winning Neil Diamond special, Hello Again.

Solms also wrote and produced The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, co-created the critically acclaimed 3 Girls 3, and Home Box Office's first two original comedy specials starring Carol Burnett and Martin Mull.

Television, however, has never been Solms' sole domain. Lorelei, starring Carol Channing, lured Kenny and Gail back to Broadway to write the new book for the Jule Styne / Comden & Green musical based on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. During Lorelei's two-year Broadway run, he collaborated with Parent on the screenplay for her novel Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York starring Roy Scheider and Jeannie Berlin.

Solms also conceived and wrote, Perfectly Frank, a Frank Loesser revue, which enjoyed a successful run at the Geffin Theatre in Los Angeles before its Broadway run. A year later, he produced it for Showtime starring Cloris Leachman. He conceived and wrote What the World Needs Now, the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, which had its world premiere at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre and recently workshopped Ain't that a Kick in the Head, based on the songs of Sammy Cahn.

Kenny has been headwriter and producer for numerous television variety specials, including Texaco Star Theatre's Salute to Broadway, Disneyland's 30th Anniversary Special, Live and In Person, The Homemade Comedy Special, Disneyland's Summer Vacation Party and Showtime's Joan Rivers' Salute to Heidi Abromowitz. He served as executive producer on Bruce Willis: the Return of Bruno, produced and wrote four This Is Your Life specials for NBC. His first directorial assignment was an original production of Plaza Suite for ABC which he also produced starring Carol Burnett, Dabney Coleman, Richard Crenna, and Hal Holbrook. His first foray for Fox Broadcasting was as Head writer of The 43rd Annual Emmy Awards, giving Fox its highest rating ever for a special. He served as comedy consultant on King World's New Candid Camera, and produced and wrote The New Original Amateur Hour, a series for the Family Channel, Carol Burnett... Reunion for CBS, Legend to Legend for NBC, several This Is Your Life specials for NBC, Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny for NBC, and episodes for Touched by an Angel, one starring his mentor... Carol Burnett.

It Must Be Him premiered last year in New York City at the fabled Playwrights Horizons, and just completed a successful eight week run at the Edgemar Center For The Arts in Santa Monica.

About LARRY GROSSMAN:
LARRY GROSSMAN (Music) – is an award-winning composer, having written for Broadway, television, film and cabaret. His Broadway credits include: Minnie’s Boys (The Marx Brothers Musical), Goodtime Charley, A Doll’s Life (Tony nomination, directed by Harold Prince), Grind (Tony and Drama Desk nominations, directed by Harold Prince) and Snoopy! (The Musical), an international hit now performed in six languages. He composed the incidental music for Play Memory and End of the World (both directed by Mr. Prince). Off-Broadway and Regional credits include Paper Moon and Diamonds. He served as Creative Consultant to the Tony-Winning Elaine Stritch At Liberty. He is currently at work on the musical version of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory, which will premiere this November at Theatreworks in Palo Alto. For his extensive work in television, he has been awarded six Emmy’s, with 17 nominations, along with a Peabody Award for his contributions to “The Muppet Show.” His film credits include: Disney’s “Pocahontas,” “Journey to a New World,” “The Great Mouse Detective,” “Princess Diaries 2” and MGM’s “That’s Dancing.” His songs have been recorded by artists ranging from Tony Bennet and Lena Horne to David Bowie and Michael Jackson
About RYAN CUNNINGHAM:
RYAN CUNNINGHAM (Lyrics) – is a graduate of the NYU Musical Theatre Writing Program and a Drama Desk and Mac Award nominated lyricist. He wrote the Off-Broadway musical I Love You Because with composer Joshua Salzman, which went on to be recorded with PS Classics, and has been produced in Asia, Australia, Europe and across America. His new musical with Salzman, Next Thing You Know, has been performed in cities across the country as well as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He is a contributing writer for Disney's "Johnny and the Sprites" and is also a writer for Broadway's premiere advertising agency, Serino Coyne. Ryan is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.