{"id":2629,"date":"2025-12-16T19:40:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:26:16","slug":"showbiz-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/2025\/12\/16\/showbiz-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Showbiz, Baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Logline: A seasoned Broadway performer is robbed of her first (and last) lead role by a terminally ill child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Page Count: 7<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Genre: Comedy<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cast Breakdown:<br \/>\nSASHA (F43), a Broadway performer on the brink of \u201cwashed-up,\u201d desperately clinging to the sparkling opportunity of youth through dyed blonde hair and a relentless \u201cdiva\u201d personality.<br \/>\nGINGER (F12), theater kid suffering with a nondescript terminal illness. The most annoying person Sasha has met in her 20 years of show-business.<br \/>\nBRADFIELD (F22), up-and-coming producer only concerned with morality when it saves her some cash.<br \/>\nHOST (M40), has enjoyed a long tenure of success due to his unfailing ability to stir the pot when it comes to pop culture incidents.<br \/>\nKYLIE (F32), Sasha\u2019s fellow thespian that is far more supportive of the newcoming actress.<br \/>\nACTOR (30), another fellow thespian doing their best to keep the show going.<br \/>\nAUDIENCE (25), a common heckler relishing in the commotion onstage.<br \/>\nDOCTOR (45), sent to deliver some wonderful news live on TV. (Might not really have their PHD.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Location:<br \/>\nINT. BEDROOM<br \/>\nINT. THEATER<br \/>\nINT. OFFICE<br \/>\nINT. STAGE<br \/>\nINT. BACKSTAGE<br \/>\nINT. STUDIO<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Credit:<br class=\"last\" \/>Written by Kiera Nusbaum<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Contact Info:<br class=\"last\" \/>knusbaum@chapman.edu<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">Read here: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2026\/03\/SHOWBIZ-BABY_FINAL-1.pdf\">SHOWBIZ-BABY_FINAL-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logline: A seasoned Broadway performer is robbed of her first (and last) lead role by a terminally ill child. Page Count: 7 Genre: Comedy Cast Breakdown: SASHA (F43), a Broadway performer on the brink of \u201cwashed-up,\u201d desperately clinging to the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/2025\/12\/16\/showbiz-baby\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-pages","category-comedy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}