NEWS!!!! (Updated 8/26/2010)
"The Memory Show" is a hit at Barrington Stage!!
"Mr. Redler and Ms. Cooper’s songs...feel organically linked to their subject in ways seldom found on Broadway these days."
"Zach Redler has written a score that follows the patterns of minds grasping, often in vain, for clarity, conviction and lost time."
"'The Memory Show' suggests that fresh frontiers remain for creators of musicals."
"What’s most striking about “The Memory Show” is its ability to grasp and translate the elusive into song."
"...the music itself becomes a third character that both connects and divides the others."
"when 'The Memory Show' sings...it transcends the expected and achieves a haunting originality."
- New York Times (Ben Brantley)
"...an honestly felt and musically bracing production that features two stunning perfs: Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox...a striking introduction of fresh musical talent whose new voices are very much worth remembering." - Variety
"The Memory Show is emotionally sophisticated and dramatically astute...it's a show you won’t soon forget" -The Boston Globe
"...a poignant, sometimes funny, often heart-rending musical...how it sings."
- Berkshire Bright Focus
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We're SOOOO excited for the World Premier of "The Memory Show" at Barrington Stage Co. in Pittsfield, MA starring Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox, directed by Joe Calarco, music directed by Vadim Feichtner. It's running from August 18th-29th!!! Do NOT miss it!! :)
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"Loving Leo" went extremely well at ATF. Everyone was amazing and we learned a lot. We look forward to working on it more in the Fall!
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Sara and I are headed up to ATF Glens Falls to workshop our new show "Loving Leo" starring Michael Winther and Farah Alvin. Directed by Mark Fleischer and Music Direction by Lon Hoyt. Can't wait!!! If you're in the area please stop by!!!
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"Perez Hilton Saves The Universe" (Book by Tim Drucker and Randy Blair, Lyics by Randy Blair) will have a one night only concert at Joe's Pub on May 30th at 9:30 p.m.
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Landless Theatre is producing a limited run of "Perez Hilton Saves The Universe" (Book by Tim Drucker and Randy Blair, Lyics by Randy Blair) in Washington DC from May 14-June 5th. Check it out!!
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Sara and I spent a week at the Weston Playhouse working on "Loving Leo". It was so gorgeous and inspiring I also wrote a new song cycle called "In The Garden Of Earthly Delights" with Czeslaw Milosz's poetry (rights pending).
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Leslie Kritzer and Andrew Schufman performed songs from MITMOAW and our new show Loving Leo on Monday January 11th at Feinstein's at the Regency for the annual Gersh Agency Showcase. It was a huge success!
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This July Sara and my new show LOVING LEO will have a workshop at the Adirondack Theatre Festival in Glens Falls, NY!!!!!! If you want to take a weekend trip...come on up! Stay tuned for details!!! :)
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On December 13th Etai Benshlomo will be singing Sara and my new cabaret song "Just Get Through" for Lincoln Center's Holiday Songbook Concert. The evening is "a collection of NEW HOLIDAY SONGS
by some of today's most talented composers and lyricists". Details below:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 - 2:30PM
The New York Public Library
for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center
Bruno Walter Auditorium
111 Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street
Produced and Hosted by John Znidarsic
WRITERS INCLUDE: Gaby Alter Kellen Blair Peter Brash David Caldwell Andrew Zachary Cohen Maggie Coleman Sara Cooper Oran Eldor Kirsten Gunther Ritt Henn Joe Iconis Anna Jacobs Sukari Jones Joe Kinosian Peter Lerman Robert Manganaro Sue Matsuki Mary Liz McNamara Tommy Newman Zach Redler Will Reynolds Steven Silverstein Joan Ross Sorkin Paul Stephan Joy Sun Robert Vest Sam Willmott Jay Zimmerman
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"Single Jewish Female Seeks Man" (from MITMOAW) and "Navigating" (from our forthcoming show with a working title Navigating) will be performed at the Gersh Agency Musical Showcase at Feinstein's at The Regency on January 11th.
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PEREZ HILTON SAVES THE UNIVERSE (and the greater Los Angeles Area) will be playing at the Landless Theatre Company in Washington D.C. from April 30th to June 3rd. More info soon!
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Sara and I have signed with Jessica Amato at The Gersh Agency!
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NAMT was a huge success! Thank you so much Leslie Kritzer, Catherine Cox, Vadim Feichtner, Joe Calarco and Kara Kaufman for making this happen. And of course all the people at NAMT were sooo helpful!! We can't wait to see where it takes us!
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NAMT is coming up! We have the same team that we had for the Barrington reading and we are sooooo lucky to have them! If you in New York on Oct 19th or 20th please come to New World Stages and try to see it! :)
Barrington went extremely well! Thanks Bill Finn and Julie Boyd for making that happen!
CAST ANNOUNCED FOR BARRINGTON!
Daughter - Leslie Kritzer
Mother - Catherine Cox
Director - Joe Calarco
Music Director - Vadim Feichner
Songs of MITMOAW to be featured in TWO new cabarets!
Songs from MITMOAW to be featured in New Songwriters Showcase at Baldwin-Wallace College in November 2009!
Songs from MITMOAW featured in Bright Lights Concert Series at Dreamlight Theatre Company in July 2009!
MITMOAW is looking forward to it's first public reading September 5th and 6th at Barrington Stage!!!!
MITMOAW is a NAMT finalist!!
Lower East Side Festival
Come hear selected songs from Memory Is The Mother Of All Wisdom at the Lower East Side Festival at Theater for the New City! We'll be playing a 10 minute slot on Memorial Day weekend. Details to come!
NEW SHOW!!! :)
Memory Is The Mother Of All Wisdom (Book & Lyrics by Sara Cooper, Music by Zach Redler) is a comic tragedy about the troubled relationship of a Mother (62) who has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her estranged Daughter (31) who moves back home to Brooklyn to take care of her. MITMOAW was developed at the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. (Special, special thanks to Sarah, Fred, Donna, and Mindi!!!) Also SPECIAL thanks to Brittney Borgstedt and Alissa Wyatt for singing for us! (It's their lovely voices you hear on the recording!)
The show will be premiered at the GMTWP on April 28th, 2009. Futhur performances will be announced after this date!
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