I'm Mia Schachter and I’m writing a musical called Cancer Season: A True Story. "After a week of violent illness, Max poops out a tapeworm. Undergoing a spiritual exorcism, Max has to contend with their inner demons via a now external one in the form of their new roommate, Squirm the Worm (a puppet). Reckoning with ancestors, ghosts, and past versions of themself through Judaism and music, Max sings their way through the longest and hottest heat wave in New York history trying to write their anthem for a final show before they can go back home to Los Angeles." After decades of mysterious undiagnosed chronic illness, I began to recover once I received 5 diagnoses. But then I went to Mexico in 2019 and started to get worse. I assumed, as did everyone else, that my old issues had returned. Instead, it turned out that I had gotten a tapeworm and lived with it for almost 3 years. This musical covers new moon to new moon of last summer when I expelled a tapeworm and underwent a massive spiritual exorcism that demarcated a chapter ending and a new beginning in my life and bookending my 33rd birthday. It includes a mikvah on stage, a tapeworm puppet who joins me in song (which I crocheted), and a live band. I've written the script and all the music and will be performing the leading role. Growing up on RENT, Hedwig, Spring Awakening, and Wicked, it has always felt like one of my life's purposes to write a musical, and you can help me do it. You can hear some of the music already. Funds will be used to cover: Artist's and crew's fees such as actors, directors, stage manager, stage hands, musicians, costumes, and more. Set pieces such as a mikvah tank or bathtub, a sink, a toilet, and a massage table. Music recording costs for the soundtrack such as producer, engineer, studio, and musician fees, as well as mixing and mastering (can be up to $2000 per song and there are 10) Travel for me and other cast and crew between New York and LA to rehearse and perform. Food and lodging for cast and crew when traveling. Rehearsal and performance space rentals. Your contribution will help make this dream a reality. I'm so excited and proud and can't wait to share it with you. Here's a preliminary live performance of a few of the songs: Follow along on IG.
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