Mamma Mia! 'Infertility,' the Musical

Dec. 5, 2005 issue - Chris Neuner was doing his manly duty in the collection room at New York University's infertility clinic when the light bulb went on. The high-tech babymaking that he and his wife, Amy, were enduring_the sperm specimens, the hormone shots, the egg harvesting_wasn't only agonizing, it was pretty darn funny. So when Amy finally got pregnant, Chris started crafting little ditties. Nine months later, Amy delivered twins, Garrick and Olivia, and Chris, a writer and composer, delivered a script: "Infertility: The Musical That's Hard to Conceive."

Almost three decades after the birth of the world's first test-tube baby, infertility is not only out of the closet, it's kicking up its heels off-Broadway. "You have to laugh because if you look too long at that petri dish you can convince yourself to get pretty upset." says Neuner, 35. At Dillon's Theatre in New York City, a straight couple, a lesbian couple, a single working gal and a fertility doc sing about ovulation, sex-by-day-planner and the sperm-donor "dating game." The show deals with patients' sadness and frustration but...