Playwright
Roger Bean created the smash off-Broadway hit The Marvelous Wonderettes, receiving the LA Ovation Award for Best Musical. Mr. Bean’s doo-wop musical Sh-Boom! Life Could Be a Dream received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Musical, and the holiday sequel Sh-Boom! A Christmas Miracle premiered in the Fallon House Theatre at Sierra Rep in 2023. Additional musicals include Route 66, Honky Tonk Laundry, The Andrews Brothers, Summer of Love, Why Do Fools Fall in Love?, Wonderettes: Dream On, Wonderettes: Caps & Gowns, and Winter Wonderettes. Original cast albums of the four Wonderettes shows, Sh-Boom! Life Could Be a Dream, Honky Tonk Laundry, and The Andrews Brothers are available in all the places you listen to music. Mr. Bean is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
Zap back in time with the West Coast Premiere of Roger Bean’s Don’t Touch That Dial! — a zany musical game show stuffed with TV theme songs, nostalgia, and laugh-out-loud audience fun.
This smash Off-Broadway hit takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom, where we meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy: four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts!
Take a dollop of Grease, mix in some Pump Boys and Dinettes, and add a generous dose of Forever Plaid and you've got the high-octane fun of Route 66!