where did the idea begin?

Back in early January, Kimberly Patterson poses the question to Gil Varod, "Do you want to write a children's musical for the Fringe this year?"

The response from Gil: "The Fringe? The deadline's in, what, a month?"

Kim says, "that's okay, it's a Children's Musical. It doesn't need to have quality or anything."

Since both have a deep love for Greco-Roman culture, they decided to do an adaptation of a Greek Myth. They parted ways to do some brainstorming.

But what to adapt? Hercules would come off as strange, and it's been done. Medusa teaches a strange lesson. Most stories about the Greek Gods were too short, or too harsh. The Aeneid, Odyssey and everything Trojan was just too bloody.

Upon their reconvening, Gil says to Kim, "We should adapt Oedipus."

"What?"

"We should adapt Oedipus as our children's musical."

"But... you can't do Oedipus for Kids!"

And so with an e-mail to Robert entitled "You have 10 days for a first draft of all of these songs", Oedipus for Kids was born.