Linda Coffee
Highlight Bits & Quotes
8Hooked: The San Diego Prequel
The team pitches the opening of the musical, where a young Captain Hook is a surfer in San Diego who dreams of being a poet instead of a STEM major at UCSD.
"Neverland feels like San Diego."
"I got all 10 fingers in all my dreams."
The Creative Team Behind 'Hooked' Introduces Themselves
The hosts introduce the creative team behind the new Peter Pan prequel musical 'Hooked', featuring married couple Grover and Linda Coffee and their young protégé David Cream.
"We're the kind of married couple that does two aisles on an airplane so that we can straddle and we can hold hands."
The Solstice Meeting and the Mud Room
The Coffees describe meeting David Cream during a mystical winter solstice ritual involving burning 13 wishes and psychological transcendence in a Korean spa-style mud room.
"There's a period of psychological transcendence that happens after hour 18 in the mud room."
The Smee Transformation and Law Firm Dilemma
The team reveals that the character Richard eventually becomes Smee, and they perform a song about his internal struggle between joining a law firm or a pirate ship.
"It's everything that Smee wishes he could be and everything that he isn't."
T-Bell's Busty Transformation
The creative team describes the character arc of T-Bell, who begins the musical as a giant busty woman before transforming into a flat fairy. They perform a song about her physical journey and mock 'woke culture' sensitivity.
"She has to be Latina, she has to be busty, and we will not be taking any sensitivity around this."
The Seal Ensemble and Hook's Poetry
The team explains how they translated a financier's request for 'ambiance' into a scene where Captain Hook shares his poetry with a group of supportive seals on the San Diego Pier.
"San Diego is a breeding ground for poets and it always has been."
Steve Doorknobs: The Metal Metal Man
Linda Coffee pitches a spin-off character named Steve Doorknobs, a metalworker who looks like Steve Jobs. They perform a funky tap number with complex time signatures and 'rest question marks' in the sheet music.
"Steve Doorknobs, the metal metal man full of many metal musings."
The San Diego Suck and Blow Incident
The team reveals a monumental event in San Diego involving a game of 'Suck and Blow' that led to an accidental kiss between Linda and David Cream, which they then turn into a musical number for the Lost Boys.
"The critical moment between suck and blow when there's a miscommunication."