Musicals from my youth, updated for my 30s.

1. Les Fatiguées

2. Mortgage

4. Little Shop of Overpriced Eye Creams

5. My Fair Trade Organic Coffee Lady

6. Upper West Side Children’s Story Hour

7. The Sound of Music Played At a Reasonable Volume

8. The Good Kind of Fat

9. Fiddler On The On the Rooftop Party I Did Not Attend

10. Once Upon A Tempurpedic Mattress

11. The Authority Figure I Used To Idealize But Now See Is Struggling, Just Like All Of Us, Of Oz

12. Cats

Miriam Jayaratna

Miriam Jayaratna is a clinical psychologist based in New York City. She writes comedy because Freud said humor is the best coping mechanism, after you've blown through all your cocaine. Her other work can be found in Slackjaw, Points in Case, Little Old Lady Comedy, Greener Pastures, and various psychology journals.

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