Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program alum Robert Emmett Maddock (Cycle 14) announces his literary debut with the novel, THE LYRICIST, available globally through all bookseller platforms.
Winner of the Daryl Roth Award and a Jonathan Larson Grant, Maddock writes about Oliver Pyke, who is starting to worry. All he wants is to write lyrics for Broadway musicals, but after years of trying to make it in New York City, the dream has eluded him. Things change when Oliver meets an uptown piano player named Sam Arkwright from one of the wealthiest families in Manhattan. Joining forces, they write their first song together; and their collaboration is born. But can it survive? Soon, the writers plunge headlong into an outré world of fast-moving dealmakers, career-driven divas, stagehands, dramatists and every formation of hellbent thespian. The future looks promising, but all that glitters isn't gold; and if Oliver Pyke can't break into show business, he might just break altogether. Inhabited by a vivid society of show people, THE LYRICIST comes to a startling finale that whittles the American dream to the bone.
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