Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Some non-parody theater song demos, since it's tough to record new stuff right now in social distancing time

Some non-parody original theater songs, since it's tough to record new stuff right now in social distancing time

 From the musical ACROSS STATE LINES  (performed previously as The Octagon Circle Show)
- music and lyrics by Fred Landau - these were my demos

Two buddies are  KILLING TIME  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAQlmXZ5fas
- could actually be done staying six feet apart - https://youtu.be/zpXdp6iS40w
but then one day Jackie sees this friend who is meeting with his wife
HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?  (Last Meal in Greenwich Village) 
Hilarity ensues, since it's all a misunderstanding of course.   
BROOKLYN BOY 

In the show, it's sung in the first months of the New Year looking back, yearning for the love felt at Christmas time to be here again


From FAMILY MUSIC:   (both co-written by Marian Weiner &Fred Landau) - as in the summer 2017 Long Island reading
"I Never said I Knew Best" - A song lamenting the inability to be like a Father Knows Best dad -  and then, I get to duet with Sheree Sano on  “Finale to Family Music”  

This rough demo somehow caught on a bit (70,000 views on YouTube) because a greeting card site linked it:
IS IT MUSHY TO SAY I LOVE YOU? - music by Fred Landau,  lyric by Hunter Prillaman, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZfjTLHl1s


Also:  VIVA MAX!   Based on the novel by Jim Lehrer.

 Some links, script for "Viva Max!" for which I cowrote the book.  Songs by Skip Kennon.

And this is a roughing out of a take on the story that takes in evolving inclusion and developments  in US-Mexico relations with the current White House 

Some demos of the songs by Skip Kennon are at  https://youtu.be/8Cp64RFa6t4

and more demos at   https://youtu.be/QqnEz0SBblk 


The slogan we've been using is "Remember the Alamo?  Max will make sure you never forget it". (thanks for that to Yoni Vendriger who with MorCohen produced a 90-minute presentation at TRU Jan. 2018)


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