The Discontented Grasshopper

Book and Lyrics by Greg Edwards, Music by Jonathan Breit

Hannibal is no longer content living in Farmer Marvin's fields, so he hatches a plan which may or may not involve the destruction of humanity.

Characters

• HANNIBAL, a little grasshopper with a big dream
• PA GRASSHOPPER, Hannibal's father who's content with the status quo
• MA GRASSHOPPER, Hannibal's mother who's content with the status quo and poor verb usage
• TIRESIAS, the blind grasshopper prophet

Productions

• The First 3^rd Annual U.S.-ification of America Conference (New York, July 2010)

Backstory

This piece was the product of a write-a-15-minute-musical-in-a-week festival. We received our topic on Thursday, wrote the musical over the weekend (during which I also moved to a new apartment), rehearsed it during the week, and performed it the following Friday. Yikes.