WORK: A New Musical by Parade Stone
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Previously titled “Recipe for a Sell-Out”.
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Developed in support by The Shubert Organization and The Artistic Circle Initiative.
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New York Theatre Barn’s award-winning New Works Series presents pre-premieres of original musicals in development presented to a live and virtual audience.
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Our team traveled to the Eugene O’Neil Theater Center to further define the book based on feedback gathered from our 29 hour reading. Parade Stone collaborated with Dramaturg Liana Irvine and Creative Consultant Vanessa Reyes.
Sydney Davis is on track to be promoted to a corporate girl boss position at Earth Mother Grocery...and she’s not happy about it. As her potential new life unfolds, Sydney reflects on the career she once had working for progressive mayoral candidate, Sofia Diaz. In an attempt to effect real change, Sydney must ask herself, is getting ahead worth losing yourself?
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October 2022 New Work Series- NY Theatre Barn Photo Credit: Rebecca J Michelson
August 2022, Reading at Open Jar Studios Photo Credit: Anela Layugan
Artwork by Emma Ling-Hwei
In the Bronx Brown Girls Can See Stars Too (Or The F*ck Is You Lookin’ At)
Written by Amalia Olivia Rojas
Directed by Marina Montesanti
In The Bronx Brown Girls Can See Stars Too (or The F*ck is You Lookin' At) follows five young girls who are forced to take a communication workshop in hopes of avoiding juvie. As they play games and learn about themselves with the help of teaching artists, one of the girls is approached by the local gang leader to prove herself or lose her home. The girls must confront their past, present, and future to determine who they want to be, all while finding community and liberation in each other.
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Special presentation hosted at Columbia University.
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A new play by Lehman College alumna and playwright, Amalia Oliva Rojas.
Directed by guest artist Marina MontesantiStudio Theatre
Wednesday 11/20 at 4pm
Thursday 11/21at 7pm
Friday 11/22 at 7pm
Saturday 11/23 at 7pm
Photos from Columbia University presentation.
BRICKS: A Funk Musical of Retroactive Reparations
Book and Lyrics by Charlene Jean
Music by Franklin Rankin
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Partnership developing and creating the archival work for BRICKS.
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Micro-Development session to rework the book of BRICKS.
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Development residency to finalize music scores and tracks.
The story of BRICKS follows Colette Etienne’s desire to protect her young child, Maelle from seeing the spirit-inhabitants of this “buried land” still here, still dwelling. With rose tinted, Baker-Miller pink lenses, the tool conceals Maelle’s spirit world. However, when the spirits call on the Etienne’s to do their bidding - to see the city fall as it did in the biblical story of Jericho – a mother fights for her child’s innocence, and a child becomes a free woman. In the end, we see how the spirit world is imperative for revolution as the walls indeed fall - and bricks of a new world are imagined in rest.