When the matriarch of a wealthy family dies, her three adult children have no clue that she’s tasked a down-on-her-luck woman, Leigh, to matchmake them. Over the course of one blistering summer, an unforgettable cast of characters collide in a struggle for money, love, and liberation.

Adam LaPorte is a composer, playwright, and librettist from Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He wrote his first musical at age 17 for his high school senior thesis project. Other writing credits include: The Baseball Play (Oklahoma Contemporary), June by the Sea (OCU Stripped), Courtship (The Tank), and The Train Stoppers (co-written with Amanda Freedman, DTUAF Winner Best Short). He is a graduate of Oklahoma City University (BM) and NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (MFA). What he doesn’t know about bugs, he makes up for in heart.

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