Colorful abstract painting featuring a young boy with short hair and a serious expression in the foreground. The background includes shades of purple, blue, and orange with various scribbles, numbers, musical notes, and partial phrases such as 'music,' and 'the.' There are silhouettes of people in a field on the right side and abstract shapes and patterns across the image.

Art by Daniel Mauk

tame the noise

tame the noise is an intimate, high-energy adhd musical folk fable. in the town of normal, life is defined by a quiet, predictable status quo. but when a chaotic force called the noise leaves the town’s citizens unable to stop singing, speaking, or otherwise making noise, the only person who isn’t bothered by it is sent on a quest to find its source and silence it forever.

joined by his friends, the boy treks through a world of echoing canyons and shouting cities. along the way, he begins to question whether the noise is truly the threat the town believes it to be. with a foot-stomping folk score and immersive storytelling, tame the noise is a fable about finding harmony in chaos.

in development.

upcoming!

tame the noise will receive four staged readings as part of milkyway theatre company’s new works festival at the tank in new york city.

wednesday, september 16 at 7:00 pm
sunday, september 20 at 7:00 pm
monday, september 21 at 9:30 pm
saturday, september 26 at 9:30 pm

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    • book, music, & lyrics by benjamin walton

    • full-length, one-act musical

    • cast of seven

    • folk score

    • finalist - new musical project 2026

    • selection - michigan state university’s musicalturgy program 2026

    • selection - milkyway theatre company’s new works festival 2026

    • selection - the table read co.’s writers club 2026

    • semifinalist - wild imaginings’ epiphanies festival 2026

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