Josie was told she was going to die. She had bigger problems: her boyfriend of 13 years just left a note, took the corkscrew, and left the Dan Brown novels. Freshly single, freshly bald, and deeply annoyed at having to buy a new couch in this economy, Josie decides that if her body is going to fight her, she's going to fight back — by stealing a pen for the first time, missing a deadline on purpose, and maybe, not entirely on accident, falling in love. A Pain in the Neck is a musical about what it looks like to be relentlessly, inconveniently alive — right up until you aren't.