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Not as familiar with this guy, but looks and sounds great.
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Not as familiar with this guy, but looks and sounds great.
What about Henry Vivaldi?
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Brett Ryback on his MURDER FOR TWO "telepathy" & wine-drinking evenings with BFF Lesli Margherita
That awkward moment when you're chatting with a composer and you mention that you had previously posted snippets of a bootleg of his show on your Tumblr, assuming that he knew, only to discover that he didn't... (But since he also didn't scold me, I hope he'll forgive me for sharing one more song in order to kvell.)
But I said it this summer and I will say it again. Murder For Two is a ton of fun, and that fun is amplified by the insane amount of talent both onstage and off. A new musical comedy that is funny! and tuneful! and full of genuine rhymes!
The show's tightened up since the summer. It's interesting that the reworked opening helped with the storytelling, but it felt like it took longer for tonight's audience to really get on board with the show than it did when I saw the earlier version at Second Stage. Still, the audience did get on board and by the end everyone was howling with laugher and applauding their little heinies off.
Thanks to composer Joe Kinosian for not only being awesomely talented and awesomely nice (and not bad to look at either), but for the tickets, which I won via his hilarious podcast, Musical Theater Today!
At the risk of sounding like a creepy stalker fan (too late!), here's Brett Ryback's first number in Murder For Two, "Protocol Says," accompanied by Jeff Blumenkrantz at the piano. Music by Joe Kinosian, lyrics by Kellen Blair.
(And lest you think I'm only fangirling about Brett, how great is this song? The music will be in your head for weeks, and those lyrics are clever and fun and perfect.)
You might know that I have an ongoing fascination with Sondheim songs played on the Ukulele, a genre that is unfortunately overwhelmed by more bad than good.
If you follow me on Twitter, you may know that last night I saw Murder For Two, a really funny new musical playing at Second Stage Uptown. Besides being thrilled at learning about two songwriters, Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair, who can write tuneful, funny, sophisticated songs that still sound like showtunes, I came away with a little crush on one of the show's performers, one Brett Ryback. (Of course, it turns out he's friends with some of my friends because this is a small, interconnected world.)
So of course, today when I went to learn more about Mr. Ryback and discovered that in addition to being a winning performer, he's also an incredibly talented songwriter and playwright himself. But most importantly, I found this video of his excellent performance of "Children Will Listen" in which he accompanies himself on ukulele.
Since my first reaction (an impromptu proposal of marriage) is probably premature, instead I share his performance with you. Go forth and reblog, and then buy tickets to see him onstage in Murder For Two!
