The Break Up Notebook is a musical with music and lyrics by Lori Scarlett and David Manning and a book by Patricia Cotter. Cotter also wrote the play the musical was based on. The Break Up Notebook tells the story of Helen Hill, a thirty-three-year-old lesbian from Los Angeles. Having just been dumped, she begins dating again with the support of her gay friend Bob and her butch and femme gal pals Monica and Joanie.