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The Magnificent Seven: Original Cast Album Released

Stream it today on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, or any other streaming service!

Featuring Holly Gould (Jaycie Phelps), MinJi Kim (Amy Chow), Kylie Lavrenchik (Additional Vocals), Amy Linden (Shannon Miller), Ellen Condon Macy (Amanda Borden), Allison Posner (Kerri Strug), Libby Servais (Dominique Moceanu), Josslyn Shaw (A Vision from 1984) & Racquel Williams (Dominique Dawes)

With Sam Heldt (Tim Daggett), Evan Maltby (John Tesh) & Lynne Marie Rosenberg (Elfi Schlegel)

Alex Ratner (Piano/Conductor), Michael Blancafor (Drums), Michael Epperhart (Bass), Zachary Larson (Guitar)

Recorded on September 22, 23, 26, and October 5, 2022 at John Kilgore Sound & Recording and The Bunker Studios

Recording Engineered & Mixed by John Kilgore
Mastered by Alan Silverman, Aerial Studios
Logo design by Genevieve Wilson

Album Producers:
Steve Kyriakis & Matt Donaldson
Julia Meinwald & Gordon Leary

℗ 2023 MDSK Productions LLC

And we’re open!

After four weeks of rehearsals and rewrites (and restagings and more rewrites and cuts and new lyrics and more restagings) The Magnificent Seven is open!

This process has been a truly invaluable opportunity to focus our work and see it come to life thanks to the talent and dedication of our incredible collaborators and cast. The care and the joy and the heart that they bring to this piece is so meaningful and I hope you’re able to come to Flint to see it for yourself!

But you don’t have to take my word for it…


“The right idea for a new musical is about half the battle for it to be a commercial success. The other half, of course, is getting the writing and music right. In the case of The Flint Repertory Theatre’s world premiere of The Magnificent Seven, the production team has gotten this work about the 1996 Olympic Gymnastics team very right.

The Magnificent Seven is compelling, draws you in and a very worthy musical storytelling on behalf of extremely hard working athletes who made enormous sacrifices and suffered to represent their country, themselves and their families.”

David Kiley, Encore Michigan


“It is intriguing, entertaining, and most of all a deep dive into the pressure and pleasure of world competition, all set to music. Wonderfully directed by Catie Davis and choreographed by Duane Lee Holland Jr., the play moves smoothly and with rhythmic synchrony.”

Kathleen Kirby, Flint Stages


“Creators Gordon Leary, bookwriter and lyricist and Julia Meinweld, composer, approach the subject matter with great passion, elevating the heroism and elite skill of each girl (the oldest was 19). However, they do not shy away from criticizing the culture and the physical and emotional demands placed on these young women in the pursuit of being champions.

It is a rare stage production that can manage to give equal time and weight to seven different characters, but “The Magnificent Seven” succeeds beautifully. Every gymnast has a story, a dream, a flaw, a heartbreak.

With its mixture of praise for the sport and its athletes and criticism of the abusive aspects, “The Magnificent Seven” can be seen as a nuanced work of cultural criticism. It celebrates the champions of the 1996 Olympics, but it never lets the audience forget the cost.”

Bridgette M. Redman

Back to Flint!

After a three year delay, The Magnificent Seven will receive its world premiere at Flint Repertory Theatre from March 31-April 16, 2023!

I can’t wait to be back at Flint Rep (in the heart of gymnastics country) for the next incarnation of The Magnificent Seven. The theater (and the people who make it) have been so supportive and stuck with us through, you know, a global pandemic, and it means so much to go back to the place that heard it first. FULL CIRCLE!

Also full circle… It means so much to be working with director Catie Davis on this project. We were with her in the rehearsal room for Pregnancy Pact in the first week of March 2020 when we all realized just what was going on… And since that production never made it out of the rehearsal room it feels good and correct to be back together to see this one through!

Check out the full team below, and visit flintrep.org/the-magnificent-seven/ for more info and tickets.

Director: Catie Davis
Choreographer: Duane Lee Holland, Jr.
Music Director: Jeremy Robin Lyons
Scenic Design: Ann Beyersdorfer
Costume Design: Adam M. Dill
Lighting Design: Jake DeGroot
Sound Design: Matt Otto
Props Design: Miranda Sue Hartman
Stage Manager: Melissa A. Nathan
Assistant Stage Manager: Rebecca MacCreery

2022 Relentless Award

We are honored that REB+VoDKa+ME received an Honorable Mention for the 2022 Relentless Award, in honor of Adam Schlesinger, for works that “are challenging, exhibit fearlessness, exude passion, and are relentlessly truthful.”

It made it that much better to see that some of our very favorite friends and writers who are making some of my very favorite musicals were also recognized.

Thanks to the American Playwriting Foundation for this honor!