Manhattan Crawl is an adult comedy series that presents an uncensored peek into the lives of ordinary Manhattanites escaping their day-jobs to "forget about life for a while."

The show's night-in-the-life format centers around a group of five main characters who show up nightly at the Rock-A-Bar, a tacky but popular hangout on the Upper West Side of New York City. Bar patrons comprise a wide scope of city types, including out-of-work artists, blue collar workers and Wall Street professionals, and provide a ripe base for guest star performances. The draw of the bar is the live music and a promiscuous, party atmosphere, exemplified by the ever-increasing string of bras hanging from the ceiling, collected from ladies who have danced on the bar.

A different band will be featured in each episode; either pop or alternative, country or jazz, these will be actual bands known to the viewing audience. In every show, one song will be played in it's entirety, filmed in the style of a live music video.

Employing a two act format, most of the episodes will take place over the course of a single night. Action will take place in all corners of the bar, including the small stage area, beer cellar, the bathrooms and outside, in front of the building. Though the action will primarily be confined to the Rock-A-Bar, some of the stories will have the characters venture out onto the avenue, to a flat, or elsewhere in the city.

The storylines will deal openly with sex, drugs, racism and social discontent through satiric and dark comedy. The show will at all times be controversial, most often politically incorrect and always provocative.

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THE MAIN CHARACTERS

RICHARD SOLOMON
Richard is a gritty, yet refined character. He is in his mid-thirties and has recently separated from his longtime girlfriend. New to the New York night scene, he wanders into the Rock-A-Bar and finds a home. He is a writer who hasn't written for many years. He wants to get back to his writing, but worries that his only successful play was just a fluke and he'll never write anything exceptional.

SAMANTHA REVERA (SAM)
Samantha is a singer/dancer, in her early twenties. She is studying at the Broadway Academy of the Arts and auditioning for Broadway shows. She is very talented, and is looking for her big break. For now she teaches aerobics at the health club across the street from the Rock-A-Bar. She is immediately taken by Richard, but he thinks she's a bit young and is not ready to jump back into a relationship. Despite this, there is a definite sexual tension between them.

PAUL ZIMMERMAN
Aptly nicknamed the Mayor of Amsterdam, Paul is a staple of the Upper West Side crawl. Paul is in his late-thirties and forever bouncing between unemployment and menial jobs. He manages to get free drinks for helping out at the bars on the crawl and from all his friends, just because he is the Mayor. He is good-natured and on the rare occasions that he has some spare cash, he will buy drinks. He is not incapable of holding a job, it is his total lack of ambition that keeps him from finding the right job.

JARED DANIELS (JD)
JD, a large, black man in his mid-twenties, is a Wall Street professional. He loves rap and hip-hop, is well educated in Black History, but is uncomfortable with the way he believes others perceive him. He claims he is not attracted to black women, but wouldn't date a white woman because of the social implications. He is unhappy with his present job. His dream is to be a music producer.

BAXTER AMES
Baxter was a child star of a hit TV sitcom who went through a well publicized troubled period which included arrests for drug abuse. Now in his early-thirties, he works as a DJ at Club Nouveau, a hip dance club, and is considered a quintessential part of the New York night scene.

OTHER CHARACTERS

TRENT, BLAIR AND GINA
They are the bartenders. No more then two of them work at a time, but they may sometimes show up as customers on their off nights. Trent is the manager whose goal is to own his own nightclub. Blair is a nice kid who goes to law school during the day. Gina, a drop-dead gorgeous brunette, is an aspiring standup comedian. She jokes that she's going to have plastic surgery to make herself unattractive because her looks get in the way of her laughs.

MARSHA AND STACEY
The neighborhood party girls. They are always on the prowl for men. Marsha is the easy one and Stacey is the cute one. Stacey is always complaining about Marsha taking all the men. They both get their fair share.

JULIO
Julio is the local wild man Always ready to party, he bounces in and out of the bar looking for action and helping people procure drugs. He is constantly being threatened by Tent, who doesn't approve of the indiscreet use of drugs that goes on in the bathrooms of the bar.