Hi, we're Tim Garrick aka: "Baby" and "T. Diddy" and Lori Scarlett aka: "Baby" and "Borghese". We are responsible for what you will witness this evening. We have known each other since we were nine years old, so we have had a long time to work on this. However, this is not the first musical we have written. Back in the 9th grade we started honing our craft by writing "Children of the Corn - The Musical!"
But feeling there was only so much one can really improve upon with Stephen King, we decided to tackle an author we felt we COULD improve on: V.C. Andrews. While reading our first "gothic horror romance" novel in Jr. High School, our young minds were so shocked by what we were reading we would tear the pages out and do a "hand off" to each other between classes. We could only afford one book, you see.

In these books, characters didn't have secrets, they had really big secrets. People didn't make love, they were raped. People didn't fall in love, they plummeted. Our heroines weren't just lucky, they were princesses, and in this world, not only was it perfectly fine to fall in love with your brother or sister... or father or uncle...you expected it. Though wrong on every level, it was a world like none we had ever experienced. With dialogue along the lines of... "Some girls have a brother and some girls have a boyfriend... maybe I could be lucky, maybe my brother could be my boyfriend." ...We couldn't get enough of it.

After reading our first gothic horror romance novel, "musical" wasn't the first thing that leapt to mind. "Puppet show" however, was. Bored in art class, we were able to successfully talk our indulgent teacher into letting us draw these Andy Warhol type puppet heads, tape them to paint brushes, and videotape the entire storyline of one of the books. We knew we were on to something when we got an A+ for our "art" project. Not being able to leave well enough alone, over the past ten years we have continued to videotape several other books as well. We have taken our camera and puppets and shot in Chicago, Cleveland, New York, and Los Angeles. And you know what? They just keep getting funnier all the time. One alcohol induced snowy evening in Chicago, we thought, "what if we made life size puppet heads, and acted out the characters ourselves?!" Well that sounded like the best idea we'd ever come up with. That was two years ago, and we're still considering it.

When we told people that we were thinking of writing a musical inspired by the books of V.C. Andrews, the first thing they usually said was, "No fucking way!" Then they laughed… a lot. So when deciding if we should actually "do it", we thought of all the people that laughed at us (and not just in high school either), looked at one another and said "fuck it". We make each other laugh all the time…for the past twenty years actually. So we figured that together, we could make 100 people laugh for a little over two hours, four nights a week, no problem.

We started writing SNEAUX! June 15, 2002. The first song written was "Through the Falling Snow", and the last, was "Pink Taffeta Dresses". And here we are… one year, 103 pages and 24 songs later. Neither of us can quite believe it. This was just one of those things that friends joke about. It was never really supposed to happen. Whose childhood dream actually comes true? And whose childhood dream gets a website? And further more, how many people get movie, TV, and Broadway stars to be in their childhood dream? So welcome to our strange, twisted, sensational universe... or as we like to call it, SNEAUX!