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SYNOPSIS
Jack is a gardener with a heart of gold. Jill is an ambitious internist who suffers from abandonment issues. They both dream of having greater lives. They could be anybody that we pass daily on the street except that they live in Nursery Rhyme Land. Each is fed up with the duck-tatorship that Mother Goose has created, enforcing strict Rhyming Laws and dictating the destinies of the residents of Nursery Rhyme Land by writing their poems. Jack and Jill know that their only escape is to be extraordinary enough to become a fairy tale, thus escaping beyond The Great Wall into Fairy Tale Land.
Georgy Porgy is a congressman (he actually lost the popular vote, but won the duck-toral college vote) with a dark secret. Bo Peep is a shepherdess who found out the hard way to be careful what you wish for. Just your typical best friends for Jack and Jill. However, having had their poems written years ago, they already know the wrath of Mother Goose, and anxiously try to prevent Jack and Jill’s downfall. Despite the backdrop of talking animals (the band is the famous jazz trio, The Three Blind Mice) and a tyrannical fowl leader, these people are as common as the people in our lives.
Up to now, Jack and Jill have been free to live their lives as they wish, but at the top of the show, Mother Goose begins writing their nursery rhyme in the clouds. They realize that their blind date that evening will either secure their fairy tale or imprison them in Nursery Rhyme Land forever.
Once Jack and Jill fall in love, all four lives are forever changed, raising questions about friendship, fear, and love. Is it more important to obtain the dream, or is it enough to just have a dream? Is it better to be remembered or have someone in your life to remember with? Is it more significant to be a hero or a father, or might they be the same thing? As these people face their fears and discover the answers to these questions, the biggest question has yet to be asked:
Can you out-dream your fate?