As promised in the last post, we have three brand new songs from our brand new show (tentatively titled In My Sisters’ House) ready to share!
I can’t wait to get more songs written and more songs recorded with Ally, Amy, Ellen & Rich as Julia and I keep developing it!
To celebrate the spooky season, Julia and I are releasing a song a day from our newly completed demo for These Familiar Spirits! Follow along on our Instagram (@gordonandjuliamusicals) for daily videos.
(Many of the videos feature the artwork of Odilon Redon – including the cover image to the left… His spooky and beautifully otherworldly artwork is a big inspiration to us!)
Thanks to our phenomenal singers for their work bringing this brand new score to life over the past several months (and beyond!) – Shaleah Adkisson, Delaney Amatrudo, Kim Blanck, Ally Bonino, Carina Gravante, Victoria Huston-Elem, Amy Linden, MinJi Kim, Alllison Lian, Elexis Morton, Allison Posner, Hana Slevin, Gabrielle Stravelli & Tatiana Wechsler. And thanks, as always, to the wonderful music director Rich Silverstein and engineer Andrew Zinsmeister for making it all sound so good!
(Want to hear the whole thing at once in story order? Head on over to Soundcloud…)
My wonderful collaborator Julia Meinwald teamed up with our wonderful friend Shoshana Greenberg to present “Everybody Says Not To Be This Way” at The Duplex on May 1! It was a chance to share a number of our songs for the first time in NYC (or for the first time anywhere!) and I’m excited to share a few highlights!
Thanks to the illustrious Rich Silverstein for his always incredible music direction, and thanks to Julia and Shoshana for putting together a great night!
This past weekend we got to return to the world of REB+VoDKa+ME after far too long for a quick two day workshop in the Manhattan School of Music Musical Theatre Lab Series with a few new songs and brand new group of amazing actors!
The workshop featured Lucy Ames, Hallie August, Timothy Bevens, Cory Brooks, Maithili Ginde, Carina Gravante, Callie Anna Henrysen, Ayla Gittelman Ipek, Gigi Mechetti, Teyla McAdoo, Sammi Pillow, Kenneth Sweeney, and Yoyo Zhou, directed by the wonderful Madsie Flynn with music direction, as always, by Rich Silverstein.
Thanks to Aaron Riccardi and Liza Gennaro for this opportunity to revisit this project. I’m hopeful that we’ll be back in this world again soon!
There are few things as exciting as hearing the songs you’ve written sung for the first time, especially when they are sung by some of your most trusted (and talented) collaborators.
Julia and I were thrilled to have a table reading of the complete (and sprawling) first act of These Familiar Spirits – all 90 minutes and 16 songs of it!
Thanks to our readers and singers – Shaleah Adkisson, Liz Carbonell, MinJi Kim, Lauren Marcus, Allison Posner, Hana Slevin, Rebecca Spiro, and Colette Robert – and music director extraordinaire Rich Silverstein for tackling a lot of material in a short amount of time and letting us hear this new project for the very first time! What could be better than an afternoon with generous, talented, and insightful artists??
On to Act II and Michigan later this year!