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Doc's friends Mack (Mac in Pipe Dream) and Hazel (both men) are still around. They decide Doc's discontent is due to loneliness, and try to get him together with Suzy, a prostitute who has just arrived in Monterey. The two have a brief romance; disgusted by her life as a hooker, Suzy leaves the bawdy house and moves into an abandoned boiler ...
- Oscar Hammerstein
- 1956
HAZEL. A good friend of Doc's, Hazel was named by mistake after his mother confused him for one of her other eight children. He's a little slow, but noble and beloved by his friends and house mates at The Palace Flophouse, a dilapidated warehouse where they all live illegally.
The musical is populated with longshoremen and "ladies of the evening", who weave a poignant story of the friendship and romance that blossoms among the loners and runaways searching for their dreams on the Monterey wharf. The show focuses on a marine biologist, Doc, and his relationship with a downtrodden defiant waif, Suzy.
Doc’s friend Mac arrives with Suzy, a scrappy girl of the road who’s just cut her hand breaking a store window to steal a donut. Though Doc isn’t a medical doctor, he is unbothered by his neighbors stopping by for medical assistance.
Pipe Dream characters breakdowns including full descriptions with standard casting requirements and expert analysis.
Pipe Dream revolves around the romance between Doc, a marine biologist, and Suzy, a lovable woman with an interesting past. As Doc works on a project to improve the conditions of the local canneries, he finds unexpected love with Suzy along the way.
When Suzy, a homeless girl, is picked up for stealing food, she’s taken in by Fauna, the bighearted Madam of the Bear Flag Café (which is no café at all). Here she meets Doc, a carefree marine biologist, and soon romance is in the air.
