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Genre: Musical

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Title:  Young Oats! Ep. 1 of 7

Logline:  An acting and singing career-maker for 4 8-12 yr girls and boys, as well as a dozen other singing children + an adult choir and orchestra capable of singing the Handel's Alleluha Chorus.

Synopsis:
Two young girls act and sing about two big moments: One rich, friendless girl, with a cold, stern mother, sings about playing baseball with the boys down in the street below her mansion. Another girl asks question of her German-speaking mother outside the funeral of her never-known coal-miner father. The boys in the street have teenage brothers that play rock music in their garage band. In the end, the girls play with the boys and act and sing in a large church kids' Christmas Pageant, along with a large adult choir and orchestra. Finally, the rich girl's mother embraces her and sings about her sweet daughter. Of the 40 songs in the musical, about 20 are original folk and folk-rock songs, and the others are well-known Christmas songs, such as Handel's Allelujah Chorus. The entire screenplay is 118 pages long, and would probably take 2 1/2 hours before editing.

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Title:  THE HARLEM STORY

Logline:  The Harlem Story is a contemporary Black Les Miserable. It is a dramatic, musical romance spanning thirty-one years from the South to Harlem, New York

Synopsis:
It is November 23, 1963, in the South, a day after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. BETTY HARRIS reads the bible to her son JAMES before bedtime. The next morning, James and his childhood fried, DIANE, attend church. Their parents are murdered by the klan. James' AUNT MILLIE later moves everyone to Harlem. It is June 1978. James runs an errand for Aunt Millie and he stumbes into an armed robbery and murder of a storeowner. He is arrested mistakenly and later tried and convicted. It is 1990. James' murder conviction is overturned owing to DNA evidence. Diane stands by his side while becoming a successful R&B singer. James, unable to pursue his potential for singing or find employment, joins the Army Reserves. He is later wounded during the Gulf War. He returns home. He moves into a homeless shelter, catches the AIDS virus, and struggles to survive the streets of New York.

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