This is track 4 of 15 from Platforms.
Sammy confronts his demons when his dealer finds him alone in the park.
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Sammy’s Confrontation
Music by Brent
(c) and (p) 2007 FatLab Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved
Segment choreographed by Jeff Shade
from Platforms – originally produced at NYMF ’07
Written by Delaney Britt Brewer
Directed by Holly-Anne Ruggiero
Choreographed by Ron De Jesus, Linda Goodrich, Nick Kenkel, Jeff Shade, and Matt Williams
This is track 3 of 15 from Platforms.
Doug ventures out into the night alone, having been separated from his wife on the Platform earlier. He encounters a park full of personalities curious to this midwesterner and finds himself on one side of a (tap) battle.
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Chess – Doug in a park, later
Music by Brent
(c) and (p) 2007 FatLab Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved
Segment choreographed by Jeff Shade
from Platforms – originally produced at NYMF ’07
Written by Delaney Britt Brewer
Directed by Holly-Anne Ruggiero
Choreographed by Ron De Jesus, Linda Goodrich, Nick Kenkel, Jeff Shade, and Matt Williams
This is track 2 of 15 from Platforms. As a bonus, this is the original, full-length version of this little track.
Jasper, a rhythm-tapping street performer and observer of the comings and goings on the platform (played by Ted Levy), has just teamed up with a bucket drummer (Eric Rubbe) vying for the same playing space.
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Jasper on The Platform
Music by Brent
(c) and (p) 2007 FatLab Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved
Segment choreographed by Linda Goodrich
from Platforms – originally produced at NYMF ’07
Written by Delaney Britt Brewer
Directed by Holly-Anne Ruggiero
Choreographed by Ron De Jesus, Linda Goodrich, Nick Kenkel, Jeff Shade, and Matt Williams
Platforms is a dance narrative musical theatre work commissioned by Melinda Atwood and the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Five choreographers, a director, a bookwriter, and a composer collaborated to create and perform this work in under two months.
The show begins on a crowded subway platform — “the one place in New York where you will find every social class” — at 5pm during rush hour, including a conspicuously out-of-place tourist couple from the Midwest (played by Deborah Yates and Matt Anctil).
This is the first of 15 tracks of original music that I wrote for the piece.
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Evening Rush Hour – The Platform, 5pm
Music by Brent
(c) and (p) 2007 FatLab Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved
Segment choreographed by Ron De Jesus, Linda Goodrich, Nick Kenkel, Jeff Shade, and Matt Williams
from Platforms – originally produced at NYMF ’07
Written by Delaney Britt Brewer
Directed by Holly-Anne Ruggiero
Choreographed by Ron De Jesus, Linda Goodrich, Nick Kenkel, Jeff Shade, and Matt Williams
Brent’s show Platforms just closed it’s sold-out run at NYMF. Here are a few quotes from the reviews we’ve collected so far:
From BroadwayWorld.com’s message board, posted by whatever2 – Oct 2, 2007
saw “platforms” tonite — run, do not walk, to get tickets. it’s this year’s commissioned choreography piece, and simply stunning. a little like “contact” (even stars deborah yates!), but w/ a clever, modern, urban new york sensibility. simply brilliant.
From Backstage.com, reviewed by Ron Cohen – Oct 3, 2007
Lord’s recorded score beautifully evokes the show’s shifting moods…
Platforms is an hour or so of the most intense and exciting dance you’re likely to see on any New York stage this season.
From nytheatre.com, reviewed by Josh Sherman – Oct 4, 2007
The original music, by Brent Lord, is perhaps the most inspired soundtrack of a theatre piece I’ve heard in quite some time. The choreography matches perfectly with each mood shift—the underscoring in each and every scene is precisely in tune with the dancers’ vocabulary of movement.
If you missed Platforms at NYMF this year, BroadwayWorld.com has a NYMF dance preview video that you can watch here. Their “tap-off” number is the first one after Kris’s interview.
Previously:
Wow, I just spent 25 minutes on the phone with Apple Support. It was very professional and pleasant, even the time spent on hold listening to the likes of Moby and some groovy R&B, but completely unnecessary.
A word to the wise — allow for shipping time so your AppleCare Protection Program box arrives before your limited warranty expires, or just do the upgrade over the phone in the first place.
I bought a Mac mini a year ago and use it as a file server and central backup device for my network. Apple sent me a nice note a few weeks ago that my 1 year limited warranty was about to expire — would I like to purchase an AppleCare Protection Plan and extend my coverage another two years? I really like my mini and it’s a crucial part of my business, so sure! But of course, Platforms took my attention for a few weeks, and I remembered on the last day of my mini’s coverage that I needed to renew.
No problem I thought, it was still Oct. 6 in Cupertino, so I hopped on to apple.com/support, paid them my money, and expected to receive a “thanks for extending” message, or at least an email containing the magic enrollment number which I could plug in to the APP signup page. Instead, they had to ship something to me. Uh oh.
I received the box today, so I went to enroll online. But it wouldn’t let me and told me to call Apple Support. After a 20 minute game of giving my serial number, then holding, then giving the contract number, then holding, then being asked where I bought the mini, then holding, then told I needed to fax the APP receipt to Apple (which I had just *bought* from Apple), then holding, then giving my APP web order number, hold, APP enrollment number (second time I gave it), hold, APP serial number from the box, hold, then a big hold for 5 minutes — finally I was told without fanfare that I was all set and to expect confirmation in the mail in two weeks.
I was ready to fight, but thankfully didn’t have to. After all, I’m probably throwing $161.48 (pesky NY sales tax) straight into their bank account, as I’ve only ever needed service on my macs 4 times in 21 years of Mac ownership. (One was on a Mac Plus, the other 3 were laptops.) And if you wanted to get technical, I did purchase my plan before the limited warranty expired. But even so, I’m not trying to sneak in a few extra days, just add two years to the original expiration date and we’re all happy.
Even tho I presented her with a bit of a gray-area problem, I have to think some fat could be trimmed from their process. What does 25 minutes of Phone Support Girl’s time cost Apple, I wonder?
