Development History

“A Good Day” – by Eric B. Sirota

“My father had Alzheimer’s, and in his last years, the only way to reach him was through music, singing songs he knew earlier in life.  I decided I wanted to write a musical touching on the power of music to rekindle memory and awaken the mind.   I wrote A Good Day in 2019 when I received the Denis Diderot Artists-in-Residence grant to attend the Chateau Orquevaux artist’s residency in France.” 

Developmental Production by The Shawnee Playhouse (Shawnee, PA) Sept 9-24, 2023.
Winner of BroadwayWorld’s regional Best New Play or Musical Award
Director Midge McClosky, Music Director: Todd Dean

Staged Reading at the Actors Temple Theatre in NYC, Dec 11 & 12, 2022
Director and Music Director: Erich Rausch;  Reading produced by John Lant & Tamra Pica (Write Act Rep.)

Reading at Shawnee Playhouse, Aug 22, 2022; Winner of Original Playwrights Series

Workshop: Theater Resources Unlimited – TRU beginnings Parts One, Two & Three. Virtual presentation of 10-minute segments. (June 2021; Oct. 2021; Feb. 2022).

Outdoor Concert: 9 songs from “A Good Day” were rehearsed and performed in an outdoor concert in Union City, NJ, in July 2021.

Zoom reading: by Create Theatre, Aug. 26, 2021.

Zoom reading: by Play Readings with Friends, Feb. 13, 2021.

Zoom reading by Shawnee Playhouse, July 6, 2020.

Zoom reading: Write Act Repertory, July 1, 2020.

Zoom reading: private May 24, 2020.