Overheard at The Farnsworth Invention, 11/06/07
A lady in Orchestra Center, Row M:
When I go to a musical, I count the number of songs so that I know how many I have to listen to.
Good thing for her she was at a play.
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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:
Here is a rough mix of what we think will be the closing song of "Dogs That Wear Hats".
Music by Mike
Lyric by Stephen Tomac
Produced by Brent
Vocals by Miriam Shor, Gavin Creel, and Lisa Howard
(c) and (p) 2004 FatLab Music
Sheet Music available upon request
All Rights Reserved, write us if you're interested
Lyric by Stephen Tomac
Produced by Brent
Vocals by Miriam Shor, Gavin Creel, and Lisa Howard
(c) and (p) 2004 FatLab Music
Sheet Music available upon request
All Rights Reserved, write us if you're interested
"Dogs That Wear Hats" was originally the opener for a songbook concert I did with our alumni group at NYU. Stephen Tomac and I are now taking a few songs from that night and building a completely new show around it. Four people, concert style, maybe some plot — we're not sure yet. But we know how it will open, and pretty sure we know how it will close. Gavin Creel dropped in a while back to record this demo of the opener for us.
More details as we're able to work on the show. Stay tuned.
Music by Mike
Lyric by Stephen Tomac
Produced by Brent
Vocals by Gavin Creel
(c) and (p) 2004 FatLab Music
Sheet Music available upon request
All Rights Reserved, write us if you're interested
Lyric by Stephen Tomac
Produced by Brent
Vocals by Gavin Creel
(c) and (p) 2004 FatLab Music
Sheet Music available upon request
All Rights Reserved, write us if you're interested
This might only make us laugh, but here is a long distance gift for our friend Billy's surprise 40th birthday party that we couldn't attend.
Vocals by Mike and Brent
Music by Mike
Produced by Mike and Brent
(c) and (p) 2006 FatLab Music
All Rights Reserved, write us if you're interested (I doubt it on this one, tho)
Music by Mike
Produced by Mike and Brent
(c) and (p) 2006 FatLab Music
All Rights Reserved, write us if you're interested (I doubt it on this one, tho)
Everyone knows a drunk dialer. Ours leaves messages.
"Four martinis and three glasses of wine" after the '02 Bill & Hillary Christmas Party, our dear friend Matt Quam left three long messages in a row on our answering machine. Of course we kept them.
A few days later, there was music and a lyric, and to top it all off, our favorite spur-of-the-moment diva Lisa Howard (currently starring in "Spelling Bee" on Broadway). When you hear her, keep in mind it was 10am(!) when she hit those notes. We tracked everything and debuted a finished mix for Matt and friends that night, New Years Eve '02 (into '03), immortalizing his drunk dialing forever.
Messages by Matt Quam
Vocals by Lisa Howard and Mike
Music by Mike
Produced by Brent
(c) and (p) 2002 FatLab Music
All Rights Reserved, write us if you're interested
Vocals by Lisa Howard and Mike
Music by Mike
Produced by Brent
(c) and (p) 2002 FatLab Music
All Rights Reserved, write us if you're interested
