Life Could Be a Dream is a jukebox musical written and directed by Roger Bean

Roger Bean

Roger Bean is the writer and director of the hit Off-Broadway Musical The Marvelous Wonderettes, now playing at the Westside Theatre on West 43rd Street in New York City. The Marvelous Wonderettes was first written for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, where Mr...

, creator of The Marvelous Wonderettes

The Marvelous Wonderettes

The Marvelous Wonderettes is a musical comedy with a book by Roger Bean. It was recently played off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre in New York. The show, which uses pop songs from the '50s and '60s as a vehicle to tell its story, pays homage to the high school Songleader squads of the 1950s...

, and produced by David Elzer. It premiered at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood on August 7, 2009, starring Daniel Tatar, Jim Holdridge, Ryan Castellino, Doug Carpenter and Jessica Keenan Wynn.

Awards include LA Drama Critics Circle Award

Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle is an organization located in Los Angeles, California, dedicated to excellence in theatrical criticism, and to the encouragement and improvement of theatre in the Greater Los Angeles Area....

 (Production of the Year, Ensemble, and Musical Direction), LA Weekly Award (Best Musical of the Year), and Backstage Garland Award (Best Production of the Year, Ensemble, and Musical Direction).

Musical numbers

ACT I	ACT II
Life Could Be a Dream (Sh-Boom)	Buzz Buzz Buzz
Get a Job	The Great Pretender
Who Put the Bomp?	The Book of Love
Mama Don't Allow It	A Sunday Kind of Love
Tears on My Pillow	Heartaches
Fools Fall in Love	The Glory of Love
Little Bitty Pretty One / Little Darlin'	Sh-Boom/Church Bells May Ring
Devil or Angel / Earth Angel / Only You
Stay
A Wonderful Dream
The ABC's of Love
Goody Goody