half empty be a hilarious musical about the eternal optimist in this case and a self help book writer who go to germany mistakenly think he popular there . instead of an adoring audience and he find himself adrift in a world of jaded misanthrope and include the woman who be suppose to be his publicist . his attempt to make friendsin scene that be largely improvisedlead to one great encounter after another when he be verbally abuse by nihilistic musician and gruff gangster and etc . in time and he manage to win over his publicistboth her heart and her mind but his own world view be shake when his hero and a much more popular self help writer and turn out to be not quite what he seem . the action be punctuate by several musical number . we saw this at the deadcenter film festival in oklahoma city and be blow away . this be a really funny and inspire small scale indie production . you could quibble about a few technical thing ( like the lighting and which be a bit dark ) but the piece be funny and inspired enough that you can not care too much . if voltaire be write candide today and the character would be a self help writer .