Toy Room

Plot Summary

This ambitious work of art started as a music cd, evolved into a multimedia stage performance and is now one of the few rock opera films out there. It picked up 4 awards and 1 nomination among its 10 festival laurels. Recapture the innocence of your inner child as American artist Sally Tomato brings together her assemblage of talented performers and designers to offer a glimpse into her evocative and iconoclastic life. A colorful cast of memorable characters weave through the music as the story's timeless theme evolves over the course of four finely crafted acts. The story unfolds elgantly as we turn the clock back and watch Sally playing alone, with only her imagination to help her. Two guides, Innocence and Destiny, follow her through the maze of life's events. As her childhood is short-circuited by the realities of a cruel world, Sally begins her search for the forgotten answers of youth. An intolerable Husband occupies the first years of adulthood, until the Neons (a group of party-girls) and the Hot Rods (their party-guy counterparts) show Sally alternatives to what has become a disinterested and joyless life. They can only get her so far, however, as she is overcome with exhaustion and returns to her fruitless search for answers. Can Innocence and Destiny help Sally remember the cornerstones of youth? As the story unfolds we are all reminded that Sally is not alone in her struggle and we are all on this journey.