In My Life (musical): History and Key Facts

In My Life was a 2005 Broadway musical with music, lyrics, and book by Joseph Brooks.

Described by Playbill as being "generally regarded" to be "one of the strangest shows ever to have graced a Broadway stage", it told the story of a romance between a journalist with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and a singer-songwriter with Tourette's syndrome and later a brain tumor; as they fall in love, they are observed by an angel in Heaven who decides that their story would make a great "reality opera". Also involved in the tale are the songwriter's dead mother and sister, as well as God himself.

Written entirely by Brooks, the show opened on Broadway on October 20, 2005, in a production also directed by Brooks; after receiving uniformly negative reviews, it closed on December 11, 2005, after 61 performances and 23 previews. No cast recording was made of the show's songs, and the libretto has never been published.

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