GoldRush 2.0 postcard: three silhouetted figures wearing headsets against blue, orange and magenta

2014 – 2020 · A new musical

GoldRush 2.0

Three desperate 22-year-olds team up to strike it rich with a new travel app. What are they willing to sacrifice to make it big, or to make an impact?

Sept 10, 2017
First public reading, Moon Space, 250 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, in association with Carollo & Palumbo LLC
Feb 2020
Music videos shot at the Golden Gate Theatre and Embarcadero Center
Dec 2020
Selected for the Apples and Oranges Arts THEatre Accelerator

The show is framed as a professional development seminar run by a hotshot venture capitalist. Three twenty-somethings set out to make it big in tech: Josh, the brash, high-energy CEO; Andrew, the earnest and brilliant coder; and Ashley, a newcomer weighed down by college debt. Self-interest and self-denial pull at all three in a comedy about the hard, funny realities of a Silicon Valley start-up and what technology does to our lives.

After the 2017 reading, Anne and Mark turned to the score. In February 2020 they shot music videos around San Francisco, and that December the show was chosen for Apples and Oranges Arts' two-week THEatre Accelerator, where they shaped a plan for bringing it to a wider audience.

The company

Book and lyrics by Anne Nygren Doherty
Music by Mark Mendelson
Arrangements by Jonathan Drougas

The 2017 readingDirected by Rachel Robinson
Jon Gallo at the piano
Brad Crooker · Josselyn O'Neill · Zac Schuman · Kevin Singer · Katie Trim

The 2020 music videosMichelle Rodriguez as Ashley · Kamryn Mahaney as Josh
Melissa Rivera · Elizabeth Curtis, vocals

Scenes

The full cast on stage at music stands before the audience
The reading at Moon Space, September 10, 2017
An actress at a music stand, phone to her ear, wide-eyed
An actor in a hooded shirt mid-song
An actor holding his script, singing
Two actors with scripts in a scene together
The company taking a bow
The company takes a bow

Watch

Two actors on the sidewalk beside the Golden Gate Theatre's poster wall
Humanfeaturing Kamryn Mahaney
Filming an actress on a curved walkway at Embarcadero Center
Give Backfeaturing Melissa Rivera, vocals by Elizabeth Curtis

Shooting the videos, February 2020.

Listen

  • (Almost) A Million Dollars
  • A Job's a Game
  • The Coding Song
  • Give Back
  • Human
  • I See It Now
  • If Only We Could Change the Human Race
  • Not a Hero
  • Things I Won't Do
  • Transformation Rap
  • Wild Man of Borneo