Clarissa's Closet

Play script by Monica Long Ross, music and lyrics by Alan Ruch. A highly theatrical musical celebrating the power of imagination. Clarissa is a girl with a well developed imagination, a talent for writing, and a very messy room. She can tell stories filled with pirates and fish-angels that dance. Her closet is filled with her very own treasures. The problem is that her closet is beginning to stink, and Grandma is coming for a visit. Fearing for Grandma's health, Mom and Dad order Clarissa to clean her room and "find the smell". The epic closet-cleaning adventure that follows takes Clarissa and her brother Peter into a world of ghosts, Merry Men, pirates, and those dancing fish-angels.