The Wrong Box

A World Premiere Musical Black Comedy Based on the Classic Novel
by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

Book, Music and Lyrics by Kit Goldstein Grant
Directed and Choreographed by Michael Chase Gosselin

The Dream Up Festival @ Theater for the New City, East Village, NYC

In The Wrong Box, a mysterious corpse is knocking about Victorian London, and two unscrupulous cousins are desperately trying to find it - except when they're desperately trying to lose it! If the corpse in the train wreck turns out to be Uncle Joseph, then Cousin Michael wins the family inheritance, unless Cousin Morris can dispose of the body first. Family rivalries give way to complete chaos in this energetic and farcical musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic black comedy of death, greed, and jealousy.

The Wrong Box first appeared in 2002 as a student production at Union College in Schenectady, NY. After a number of years writing musicals on commission, Kit returned to The Wrong Box in 2012, reworking the book and score. In 2013 she recorded and released a concept album of the show. The show was a finalist for London’s Burbage Productions New Writing Prize, had excerpts performed at Theatre Resources Unlimited, the Musical Theatre Factory, and The Playground Experiment, and was a finalist for Theatre Resources Unlimited’s TRU Voices New Musicals Reading Series. In October 2016 The Wrong Box had a successful staged reading at the National Opera Center, produced by Melissa Nally and Sahar Helmy and featuring Frank Vlastnik (Broadway: Big, A Year with Frog and Toad, The Sweet Smell of Success) in the lead role. Most recently, The Wrong Box was developed in Apples and Oranges Studios' THEatre Accelerator Program, led by Tim and Pamela Kashani (Broadway: An American in Paris, Memphis).