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Moving fluidly between a treatment facility, memory and the rehearsal room, CHASING GRACE is a meta-musical about recovery, authorship, and the cost of telling the truth out loud. With a score blending contemporary musical theatre, pop and R&B, the show holds space for grief, rage, joy, absurdity and hard-won laughter, capturing the lived reality of women navigating addiction, healing and self-definition.
The show follows a writer as she sorts through the memories of her time in early recovery inside a women’s treatment facility, where survival meant learning how to stay, how to listen, and how not to run. As the writer shapes her treatment experience into a new musical, memory and rehearsal collide. The women she once lived beside reappear, not as cautionary tales, but as full, complex human beings whose stories demand dignity, humor and care.
As the musical’s workshops succeed and industry attention grows, the writer is pulled into a familiar danger zone: external validation, creative compromise, and the seductive belief that success will finally make her feel whole. Pressure mounts to reshape the story into something more “palatable,” more marketable, and less honest. The farther she moves from the truth of her recovery, the closer she comes to losing it.
The show follows a writer as she sorts through the memories of her time in early recovery inside a women’s treatment facility, where survival meant learning how to stay, how to listen, and how not to run. As the writer shapes her treatment experience into a new musical, memory and rehearsal collide. The women she once lived beside reappear, not as cautionary tales, but as full, complex human beings whose stories demand dignity, humor and care.
As the musical’s workshops succeed and industry attention grows, the writer is pulled into a familiar danger zone: external validation, creative compromise, and the seductive belief that success will finally make her feel whole. Pressure mounts to reshape the story into something more “palatable,” more marketable, and less honest. The farther she moves from the truth of her recovery, the closer she comes to losing it.
Performance Schedule:
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Music
Elizabeth Addison
Lyrics
Elizabeth Addison
Book
Elizabeth Addison
Director
Elizabeth Addison
Choreography
Brian Harlan Brooks
