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About the Show
What if you could go back to the moment it all began? J.J. and Susie built a life, a marriage, a history, but somewhere along the way, they’ve lost the thread. When J.J. stumbles back to 1999 through a magical portal, watching his younger self fall head-over-heels for his wife, he decides that the kindest thing he can do for Susie is make sure it never happens at all. Featuring the music of No Doubt, Ricky Martin, Smash Mouth, Gin Blossoms and many more, Follow You Down is a jukebox musical comedy about love, second chances and the songs that live inside us forever.
This Production is in association with Lively McCabe Entertainment & Primary Wave Music
The 2nd Sunday matinee of the run will be a mask required performance. Please bring a mask or one will be provided to you.
Meet the Artists
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Jeremy Desmon, Playwright
Jeremy Desmon is an award-winning writer whose stories have played throughout the world. THE GIRL IN THE FRAME earned him the Edward Kleban Prize and PUMP UP THE VOLUME, his rock musical based on the 1990 Christian Slater film, was produced at Los Angeles’s Hudson Theatre in June, 2025. THE LAST SUPPER, his darkly comic, politically-charged new musical recently completed its out-of-town run starring Tony Award-winner Alex Newell. Other credits include the Goodspeed Musicals “revisal” of GOOD NEWS, THE OLIVER EXPERIMENT, THE LADIES QUICK: FAMILY IS MURDER, ONE HIT WONDER, THE KARAOKE KILLERETTES and two brand-new holiday extravaganzas, now available for licensing: THE DREIDEL PLAYERS PRESENT: BEST HANUKKAH SHOW EVER and the Christmas jukebox musical comedy, THE SANTA SWITCH. Additionally, Mr. Desmon has written countless touring spectacles, theme park extravaganzas and ice shows for the under-five set, featuring every Paw Patrol pup, Disney Princess, big-eared mouse, Baby Shark, furry red monster, curious monkey and magical little pony you can imagine — not to mention multiple editions of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. For high school and middle school audiences, he’s known for his modern, imaginative comedies, including CYRANO DE BURGERSHACK, ANDIE FOWLER’S BIG-TIME BUCKET LIST, HOW TO WRITE A PLAY (IN 11 EASY STEPS), WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT YOUR KID and two sixty-minute, whirlwind farces: AMERICAN HISTORY (IN 60) and THE BIBLE (IN 60). Jeremy is an alum of Stanford University, holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is in his nineteenth year teaching a Musical Theatre Writing workshop at Princeton University. He resides in Manhattan with his wife and five-year-old nugget, Anderson. They live down the street from that Starbucks.
Jesse Vargas, Music Supervision, Arrangements & Orchestrations
Television: CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND (Orchestrations); GOOD TROUBLE (SongwriterProducer); WE’RE HERE (Featured Song). Broadway: GLORY DAYS (Music SPV, Arrangements & Orchestrations); THE RITZ (Orchestrations); Off-Broadway: BARE: A POP OPERA (MD & Vocal Arrangements); ROOMS: A ROCK ROMANCE (Arrangements & Orchestrations); SAVED; SHIDA (MD, Add’l Arrangements). Additional Arrangement/Orchestration Credits: INVINCIBLE-The Musical (Featuring the songs of Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo); A LITTLE MORE ALIVE; LOVE ACTUALLY-LIVE; WHITE NOISE: BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY; THE SANTA SWITCH; ONE HIT WONDER; and more. Jesse has produced, arranged & orchestrated albums for Clay Aiken, Scott Alan, Kooman & Dimond, Daniel Reichard, Michael Longoria, and others. For over 10 years, Jesse has served as the Music Supervisor/Arranger for the themed entertainment company For The Record-Live. As a songwriter and music producer, Jesse has worked with Warner Brothers Discovery, Disney Imagineering, RWS; several podcasts, and other themed entertainment companies. Current projects: CAN’T HARDLY WAIT-THE MUSICAL (in development). @jesse_vargas_music
Ashley Rodbro, Director
Ashley is a Mexican-American director focused on new work, musicals and comedy, including the upcoming stage adaptation of TANGLED for Disney Theatrical. She also recently directed Brendan Hunt’s THE MOVEMENT YOU NEED at Steppenwolf Theater and a world premiere of FOOTBALL X4 by Kristoffer Diaz play at The Warehouse Theater as well as BriTanick: Dummy at the Soho Theatre in London and Edinburgh Fringe. She has developed work at Ars Nova, Signature Theater Company, Edinburgh Fringe, CAP 21, Musical Theater Factory, 54 Below, Yale, the New York Fringe Festival, Marin Theater Company and more.
Previously, Ashley served as Worldwide Supervising Associate Director for the original production of Moulin Rouge!: The Musical, working alongside Alex Timbers from its early development through Broadway, setting new companies in Australia, London, Germany, and a National Tour, and leading the international directing team. She was also the Resident Director for Hamilton as a part of Tommy Kail’s directing team, opening the “And Peggy” company in Puerto Rico, starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, and maintaining the Resident Company in San Francisco. Her Associate work also expnds to comedy specials, working with Timbers on John Mulaney’s Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (Netflix), Oh, Hello on Broadway (Netflix), and Alex Edelman’s Just For Us (HBO).
During the COVID-19 crisis, Ashley founded Heredia Vision, creating film and digital content that puts women at the forefront of the creative process. In this role, she spearheaded major collaborations including the virtual special Broadway Does Mother’s Day for Broadway.com and BC/EFA and NYTW’s documentary and virtual event, 25 Years of RENT.
Her short films have screened at festivals nationwide, and her writing has received multiple awards and honors. She is a graduate of Yale College
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