Dr. Frick’s Home for the Mentally Unique is a darkly funny, emotional, and entertaining adaptation of Neal Fox’s original musical, Meat Street—a story of a planet that’s lost its soul. In 2001, a workshop of Meat Street finished just days before 9/11. America was reeling. It wasn’t the time for a show with a controversial subject: how all of life’s problems are mental diseases and the solution is a little orange pill called NoZone. But, now it’s back—and even more relevant.

Only this time it, takes the form of a feature-length animated “bed-time” story called, Dr. Frick’s Home for the Mentally Unique. Prepare to be shocked!

Young Orson can’t fall sleep. The bad news on TV is keeping him up. Finally, he calls for his Uncle Neal to tell him a story. Well, this isn’t your usual family. Orson is a precocious five year-old, and his uncle is a wee bit eccentric. So the story his uncle reads to him, is a real nail biter.

Three best friends, under totally difference circumstances, end up as patients at Happy Hills. Tony worries about the world and thinks he’s saving mankind by selling Lo-Flow toilets. Danielle, his rather timid fiancee, is making the world a better place by painting pretty pictures. And, Flo, a pre-op trans woman, lost in her own problems, is having second thoughts about her surgery. A collision of crises lands them on Dr. Frick’s doorstep seeking help. But there’s a darker side to Dr. Frick, which links him to Tony, a mysterious book, and man called Jon. Q. Public.

While there is a single narrator for the main story-telling, the musical parts and dialogue within the lyrics, were previously recorded by a very talented group of [non-cast] singers.

The film is scheduled for release in 2026. Meanwhile the audiobook, the script of the audiobook, and 26-song score are available on Amazon (and other digital outlets).

Audiobook script, Dr. Frick’s Home for the Mentally Unique,©2024 Neal Fox.

All songs written and produced by Neal Fox, ©Foxalot Music — BMI