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Home the Musical is a musical by Scott Alan (music and lyrics) and Christy Hall (Book). It performed at the Adirondack Theatre Festival and had single industry reading but never made it to Broadway or West End. The musical is described as "Having moved away from her place of birth in a small Texas town, Katherine returns home, nine years later, to confront her childhood, her mother, and most importantly, herself. Home celebrates the complex bond between mother and daughter and reveals how a fragile past can be brought back to life with forgiveness and understanding."

The show was originally named Piece but got renamed as Home. When the work was still called Piece, Alan described it as "Piece is based on a woman that I met in Los Angeles by the name of Rose. She was a beautiful, but homeless 70 year old woman that sat outside the 7-11 where I lived." He said she would always tell him stories about her life and what got her to where she was then.

timesunion describes the story as:

"Leenya Rideout, who brings gentle determination, resilience and a stellar singing voice to the 40-year-old Katherine, is the emotional center of the story. She's returned to her childhood home in Texas from California, where she's a teacher, the visit occasioned by a call from a friend concerned about Miriam. Mama is a mess of tragic proportions, but she's been manipulative and hypochondriacal for so long that Katherine, who left home at 22 and hasn't visited in a decade, at first won't believe her mother is dying. After years of being badly wounded by her mother, she's unwilling to open herself up to more hurt by investing additional care. But Miriam is genuinely at the end of her life, her body ravaged by Stage 4 breast cancer that has metastasized to her lungs. And so she exists, mostly drinking wine in her recliner, while Katherine tries to find some peace from many terrible memories, shown in scenes from when she was Katie, at 13 (played by Sydney Shuck), and college-age Kat (Alison Cusano). The action moves fluidly back and forth through time without confusion, and though the different Katherines don't interact with one another, the eldest watches her younger selves with Miriam, and the three, all strong singers, have harmonies that ache with pain and beauty. (After all of Miriam's gravelly shouting, it's a happy surprise to hear Slusser sing mama's one song with a lovely voice.)"

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Interview-with-Composer-Scott-Alan-20040421 http://www.playbill.com/article/scott-alan-christy-hall-musical-home-directed-by-stafford-arima-aiming-for-west-end-bow-in-2014-com-212172 https://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-features/article/Home-is-where-the-heart-hurts-8851331.php