The Proposed Broadway Show Called "The Good Samaritan"

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The year is 2020, and it is the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The story begins with following an emergency room doctor making his way through the hospital hallway lined with dead people on hospital beds. He has been working eighteen-hour shifts seven days a week and ends up in a room with a ten-year-old boy gasping for air. The boy dies in front of the doctor, and the doctor has seen enough death and has a nervous breakdown. He quits his job. When he tells his wife that he quit, she files for divorce and takes the house and all his money, leaving the doctor homeless and sleeping in his car.

The story picks up following an out-of-work homeless comedian wandering the streets. He likes to analyze everything and watch people as they go about their busy day. The comedian chuckles out loud whenever he comes up with a joke while watching people do stupid stuff. He takes out a notepad and writes down the jokes he just makes up from watching people, and he tries out his jokes on his homeless buddies at dinnertime in the shelter.

We go back to the doctor, sleeping in his car in an alleyway. He wakes up toward dusk and begins driving around. He comes across a large gathering of homeless people waiting to be let in for dinner and a bed. He follows them into the shelter. While the doctor is eating dinner, an older gentleman has a heart attack and collapses onto the ground. No pulse can be detected. The doctor asks the staff at the shelter if there is a defibrillator there, then he runs over to the wall, grabs the device, and zaps the heart attack victim back to life. The doctor can be overheard saying in a soft voice, "This is why I became a doctor—to save lives."

The story picks up on the street corner, where a homeless magician is reaching into his bag of tricks to perform magic to the public for spare change. He lugs his bag around with him wherever he goes.

The doctor's heroic actions make the local news, and people start a GoFundMe page for him. It raises $75,000, and the doctor moves out of the shelter and into an apartment. He does not forget the kindness that the shelter showed him, so he decides to be a doctor again and donate his time to the shelter as their doctor.

The show ends in the shelter's cafeteria, where an AA meeting is going on. We hear one or two speakers telling their story about addiction.