We’re so excited to announce that Pregnancy Pact will once again be knocking up Vermont, only this time as a world premiere production!
Julia and I are thrilled to return to the Weston Playhouse this summer, where the show will run August 30-September 11. We’ll be closing out a MainStage season that also includes productions of Hound of the Baskervilles, Ella, and Fiddler on the Roof. (Can you believe that we get to follow Fiddler on the Roof???) Our performances will coincide with the OtherStages production of Theresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates starring our old friend Susan Haefner (star of the first production of Disappeared.)
The Weston Playhouse was hit hard by Hurricane Irene in August, when the large-scale renovation they had completed only months before was all but wiped away by flooding. It was amazing to watch the theater and the community come together to rebuild their home, and we couldn’t be more honored to be back with them as a part of their upcoming season.
More information will be coming in the next few months, and I’ll keep updating everyone here. Check back to hear about the exciting creative team, casting, travel information, cheese recommendations at the nearby Vermont Country Store… Anything and everything you could possibly need. Mark your calendars now, though – tickets will be available on April 1!
Julia and I will spend the next two weeks writing our hearts out at CAP21‘s annual Writer’s Co-op. We’ll be joining some of our favorite friends, classmates and collaborators – Karlan Judd & Gena Oppenheim, Julianne Wick Davis, Rachel Jett & Will Aronson, Brett Macias & Caroline Murphy, and Jason Hart & Dmitiri Landrain.
We’ll be continuing our re-writes of Pregnancy Pact while we begin to tackle our two new shows (more details to come…) Thanks to Eliza & Frank Ventura for inviting us to participate. We’re so grateful to have a space to get to work!
We’ve got videos! Enjoy the clips below of our lovely ladies performing our set at the 92Y Tribeca’s “Behind the Music-AL” series. The lovely evening was hosted by Adam Guettel and also included performances of work by Kyle Ewalt & Michael Walker and Michael Walker.
Love Me Better – Ally Bonino
Who I Am – Krystina Alabado
Leave Me Behind - Amy Linden
Hummingbird Heart - Ellen Condon with Amy Linden, Krystina Alabado & Ally Bonino
Julia and I just took a weekend trip to lovely State College, PA to see the talented students at Penn State University do a staged reading of Pregnancy Pact! They’d been working on the show for a few weeks and we were so impressed with how they tackled it. Thanks to Raymond Sage & Rob Schneider for getting us out there to see it!
(L to R): Jim Hogan (Justin), Christina Jackson, Rob Schneider (Director), Carly Hughes (Brynn), Alex Pal (Kaylee), Jacqueline Rosenthal (Jeanelle), Keely Bierne (Jenn), Sal Bucci (Cory), Allie Pizzo (Sansanee), Katie Young (Maddie), Beth Burrier (Music Director)
It’s already been 6 weeks, but we’re still excited about what a wonderful experience we had at NAMT in October. Julia and I met some amazing people through the whole process and feel so lucky to have been a part of it! Thanks to Branden Huldeen and everyone at NAMT for letting us to a part of this year’s festival. Thanks to Mark, Rich, Melanie, Kaci, Phoebe, Stephanie, Emma, Emily, Ally, Krystina and Robi for giving us so much for the week and half we were together. And thanks to all who came to see it!
We may not have a movie title behind it, but Karlan and I have a great demo for Cheer Wars! So why not share it? It’s scattered throughout the website, but here it is in all it’s cheerful glory!
Julia and I have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to recordings of songs from Pregnancy Pact. A lot of them appear throughout the site, but we were excited about sharing the whole she-bang. So we figured we’d stream them all in one place!
The following 18 recordings represent the most current version of the score (minus the reprises and a spankin’ new finale.) Some songs may come and go, but this is it, as we say:
Next Monday, November 14, Julia and I are participating in the next installment of the 92YTribeca’s “Behind the Music-al” series. It’s a regular series in which emerging writers discuss and present their work around a theme/issue, moderated by an established, big deal writer. This time around, the theme is “I Want” songs and the big deal is Adam Guettel!
We’ve got some of our favorites joining us (Krystina Alabado, Ally Bonino, Amy Linden & Ellen Macy) to sing songs about wanting babies, wanting purpose, wanting love, and, y’know, NOT wanting to be left out.
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On Monday, Julia and I had the privilege of having songs from Pregnancy Pact performed at the same time in two different concerts in two different cities!
The wonderful Victoria Bussert and her students at Baldwin-Wallace College’s Musical Theatre Program in Berea, Ohio- not far from my home town – performed four songs from the show in their annual “First Takes” concert. We were in great company with songs from fellow NYU alums Sean Mahoney & Creighton Irons’ “Factory Girls” and Janet Allard & Niko Tsakalakos’ “Pool Boy.” I wish I could have been there to see it!
Back here on the east coast, Julia and I brought along favorites Ally Bonino and Ellen Macy to perform two songs at the amazing Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey as part of their annual Cabaret of New Songs for the Musical Theater. It’s a joint venture between the great folks at Two River and the NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program to present work by alumni. We were excited to be invited to perform in such great company of fellow alums in such an unbelievably beautiful space.
We’re so excited to announce that Pregnancy Pact will once again be knocking up Vermont, only this time as a world premiere production!
