Diversionary celebrates San Diego LGBT Pride with The Break Up Notebook: The Lesbian Musical
Winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical Score

Diversionary Theatre and Rose Marcario will present The Break Up Notebook: The Lesbian Musical as an official event of San Diego LGBT Pride. Opening July 12 and running through August 12, Break Up Notebook is the award-winning, hilarious, touching and sexy musical comedy for anyone and everyone who has ever had a broken heart and lived to tell about it. Based on Patricia Cotter's critically-acclaimed hit play of the same name, The Break Up Notebook: The Lesbian Musical has music and lyrics by Lori Scarlett.

"We are very excited to be presenting the second full production of Break Up Notebook," said Dan Kirsch, Diversionary's Executive & Artistic Director. "I saw the show in Los Angeles a year ago, and we started talking then about how fun the show would be for our community. Rose Marcario has put together a stellar creative team, including G. Scott Lacy, a favorite music director of many San Diego productions. We're proud to be included in the San Diego LGBT Pride roster of cultural events."

Rose Marcario produced the Los Angeles production, in association with the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, and is bringing her expertise to the Diversionary production. Marcario has assembled a creative team of tremendous accomplishment, including two-time Tony Award winning producer/director Peter Schneider, music director G. Scott Lacy and choreographer Christine Kellogg.

"Amazingly, The Break Up Notebook: The Lesbian Musical is the first lesbian musical in the history of the theatre to break into the limelight," said Marcario. Scoring a stunning upset victory in last year's theatre award season, the show was honored with Los Angeles' highest theatre honor, the 2006 Ovation Award for World Premiere Musical" and has just received Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical Score. Along with the Ovation Award, Break Up Notebook received six Garland Awards from Backstage West. The press was equally enthusiastic: a Los Angeles Times Critics Pick, the LA Weekly's Recommended accolade and a Critic's Pick from Backstage West.

The musical tells the story of Helen Hill, a 33 year old lesbian who has recently been dumped. She is heartbroken, she's stunned and she's determined to go out there and do it all over again. With the support of her best gay boyfriend, Bob and her butch femme gal pals, Monica and Joanie, she jumps back into the dating pool. What she finds takes her a bit by surprise…two-stepping twelve-steppers, anxiety prone lawyers, a dominatrix, Match.com, dental dams, grrrl bands, rebound bad dates, rebound great dates, hot girl on girl action, and maybe…just maybe…somewhere out there…Helen might find the girl of her dreams.

Diversionary Theatre was started in 1986. The mission of the theatre is to produce plays with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender themes that portray characters in their complexity and diversity both historically and contemporarily.

The Break Up Notebook: The Lesbian Musical will be the first show of Diversionary Theatre's 2007-2008 season, and will preview on Thursday and Friday, July 12 and 13, and open on Saturday, July 14 and run through Sunday, August 12. Performance times are: Thursday at 7:30pm, Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 2:00 and 7:00pm, and a Monday, July 30 performance at 7:30pm.

Single tickets will go on sale in early May once the entire 2007-2008 season has been announced. Single tickets for this production will be $31 for Thursday, Sunday and Monday performances, $33 for Friday nights and $35 for Saturday nights, with a $4 discount for those with a San Diego Pride Festival pass, students, seniors 60+ and active military. Tickets for opening night will be $41 and include a post-show cast party.

Sales to groups of 10 or more are now on sale for selected performances. For tickets or information, call the Diversionary box office at 619.220.0097 or log on to www.diversionary.org.