The 3D Movie Musical Story: A tone-deaf actor gets trapped in a musical, where he must find his voice to battle his evil understudy’s ambitions and win the leading lady
Elizabeth Lucas is an award-winning film and stage director, with three genre movies about New York City: her award-winning rock musical movie, CLEAR BLUE TUESDAY (two Best First Feature Awards so far), her slasher flick, RED HOOK (produced by Red Sand Media, distributed by Phase Four Entertainment), and her Sci-fi FADE TO WHITE. Elizabeth is a Founding Producer of the New York Musical Theatre Festival where she has developed numerous premieres, including: THE CURE, WILD ABOUT HARRY (a dance piece about Leona Helmsley), THE LAST STARFIGHTER (based on the film), THE VIEW FROM HERE and CAPTAIN GRAVY'S WAVY NAVY. Her Midwest premiere of HELLO AGAIN won two After Dark Awards and was recommended for a Jefferson Award. Her productions of FOOTLOOSE and JEKYLL & HYDE garnered rave reviews at Trump Plaza in Atlantic City. She directs regionally and has directed countless readings and workshops. Favorite stage credits include NINE, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN and the Kauffman/Crane/Skloff-written RAPUNZEL. www.elizabethlucas.com |
SONG DEMOS! Good Morning! Breakfast! We Are the Chorus! Leading Man Playing it Sane! Perfect Design Finale!
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WRITERS! David Rossmer & Dan Lipton have created several original musicals together, jointly writing all lyrics, book and music. They are currently under commission with Broadway Across America, developing their original musical comedy The Blonde Streak. They are also working for the Araca Group on a musical adaptation of a bestselling memoir. Their dramatic fairy tale notes to MariAnne received a workshop in the summer of 2008 at New York Stage & Film. MariAnne was previously featured in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s summer 2007 National Musical Theater Conference, where the team received the Georgia Bogardus Holof Award, for their lyrics. Their form-bending musical satire JOE! received a production in the summer of 2007, by Equity Library Theatre in Chicago. JOE! has also been seen at the Kennedy Center’s Theater Lab and the NAMT Festival in New York. Lipton & Rossmer are also currently working on one musical with stage writer Wayne Rawley for producer AJ Epstein, and another with TV writer Janis Hirsch for producer Jayson Raitt. They write special material regularly for singers including Kelli O’Hara (Lincoln Center American Songbook, Café Carlyle) and Sutton Foster (Joe’s Pub). And the duo co-created, with Steve Rosen and Sarah Saltzberg, the comedy improv variety show Don’t Quit Your Night Job, which began at Joe’s Pub in downtown NYC and has run off-Broadway in Times Square and at the Zipper Theater. |
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