Dance songs, crotch shots, public meltdowns, twitter rants, little monsters, mean girls, media overload, paparazzi, drugs, clubs… Any of this seem familiar?
#UntitledPopMusical is a new collaboration from Michael Kimmel (The Last Goodbye) and Drew Gasparini (Smash) that shows the meteoric rise of Pop sensation Jenna Styles and what instant fame means in our new digital age.
Created and written by Michael Kimmel
Music and Lyrics by Drew Gasparini
Featuring-
Julia Mattison
Lauren Pritchard
Lisa Brescia
Andrew Kober
F. Michael Haynie
Preston Sadleir
Remy Zaken
Gabe Violett
Keith White
Video Design by Aaron Rhyne
Production Stage Manager- Ana Mari Dequesada
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A Concert Reading of #UntitledPopMusical
Michael Kimmel
Michael Kimmel- Michael Kimmel is best known as the creator/adaptor of The Last Goodbye, a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with the music of famed singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley. In concert form, TLG has been seen all over NYC, including The Wild Project, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, and The Westside Arts Center (Public Theater, Prod.). In 2010, TLG had its world premiere at the Williamstown Theater Festival, where it went on to become the highest grossing production in the history of the Nikos stage. TLG will have it’s next production at the famed Old Globe Theater in San Diego, CA in fall 2013 helmed by Tony nominee Alex Timbers. Michael is also the creator/writer of Turn of The Screw, a musical adaptation of the classic Henry James novella with music and lyrics by Drew Gasparini (Smash). TOTS had its concert premiere at Lincoln Center in summer 2012. Kimmel and Gasparini are also collaborating on Untitled Pop Musical, a modern musical fable, which will premiere at Le Poussin Rouge in NYC in June 2013.
Michael is the librettist on PainLess, with music and lyrics by Zoe Sarnak, as well as the author of Bluebird, a country western adaption of Chekov’s The Seagull, which will receive a workshop in 2013. Michael is a graduate of and adjunct faculty at Fordham University at Lincoln Center’s Theater Dept. Follow him on twitter at @mkimml.
Drew Gasparini
Drew Gasparini is an award winning musical theatre composer and a performing singer/songwriter. He has shared the stage with such acts as Jason Mraz, Third Eye Blind, and The Plain White T’s.
He has written the music and lyrics for his musicals Crazy, Just Like Me (winner of “Best Of Fest” and runner up for “Best Book” in the New York Musical Theatre Festival 2011), Make Me Bad (selected as PACE new musicals; book by Alex Brightman), and Turn Of The Screw (commission by Fordham University, 2012 workshop at Lincoln Center; book by Michael Kimmel).
Drew is a contributing composer to the television series SMASH on NBC – he can also be seen and heard on Oxygen’s The Next Big Thing for which he also wrote music. Drew has contributed songs to the popular one-woman, Off-Broadway show, “Hot Mess In Manhattan” and his work has been heard at Contemporary Classics New Voices in Seattle, Cutting-Edge Composers III (NYMF 2012), and many sold out Joe’s Pubs concerts. The Music & Lyrics of Drew Gasparini was presented at the Kennedy Center on the Millennium Stage in June of 2012.
Drew is an alum of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre workshop and his sheet music is proudly available at NewMusicalTheatre.com. Currently, Drew is working on the new Off-Broadway musical, “Trouble” (book by Michael Alvarez), “Circles” (book by Alex Brightman), and the highly anticipated “Untitled Drew Gasparini/Michael Kimmel Project.” For more information on Drew Gasparini, go to www.DrewGaspariniMusic.com, find him on Facebook, or follow him on Twitter- @DrewGasparini
Jenna Stylez
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