hipster musical

• Hipster Musical

  Posted by gmadmin   |   April 2, 2013

  Kevin Frei’s Post-Modern Hipster Musical (You’ve Probably Never Heard of It)

  Or the “Hipster Musical” for short. I was thrilled to be able to see the premiere production of Kevin Frei’s Post-Modern Hipster Musical (You’ve Probably Never Heard of It) at Freedom High School just a few weeks ago. The show was a great success. I got there half an hour early and the place was already packed. They ended up bringing a bunch of extra chairs in because the show was over-sold. Here I am with the cast:
  
  You can see more pictures from the show at our facebook page. (Be sure to “like” us while you’re there!)
  You’ll find the music, a synopsis, and other information at the Hipster Musical show page. Or you can dig this little audio player I made using Youtube!
  If you would like to audition with any of our songs, be sure to check out our audition songs page.
  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• Hipster and Living Dead Premieres

  Posted by gmadmin   |   March 16, 2013

  A couple of weekends ago both Night of the Living Dead! and Kevin Frei’s Post-Modern Hipster Musical (You’ve Probably Never Heard of It) had their premiere performances, and I was lucky enough to be able to attend both! My parents and I made it into a road trip, first heading out toward LA to see Bellflower High School’s Living Dead, and then driving up the 5 (through mind-blowingly gorgeous Scotland-like green hills) to Oakley for Freedom High School’s Hipster Musical.

  Both productions were amazing! Great singers, great actors, wonderful sets, lights, costumes, choreography, and staging across the board. I couldn’t have been more impressed or felt more honored to see so many talented people bring these shows to life for the first time. I was also very happy to see that the shows worked well, the audiences loved them, and most importantly the students loved them.

  After both performances I got to hang around and chat with the students. I could have done that for hours. After getting back to the hotel room with my parents the first night, I said to them: “I could really get addicted to this.” I don’t often get to go to the productions of my musicals, but I would go to every single one if I could.

  Big, big thanks to Eleanor Packwood at Bellflower HS and Michael Kleiman at Freedom HS for doing such a wonderful job with these shows and inviting me and my parents out to share in the fun. We had the time of our lives.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• Hipster Musical STATUS

  Posted by gmadmin   |   December 23, 2012

  At the beginning of 2012 I made a pretty insanely big promise. I said that four new musicals would be ready to roll by 2013. Granted, I had already written all four musicals, but none of the music had yet been written or recorded yet. So it was a big task.

  The good news is that It’s a Wonderful Life, Night of the Living Dead, and The Phantom Empire! are FINISSIMO. The Atomic Brain! has also undergone a major face-lift, with brand new tracks that are on par with our new stuff. That just leaves Hipster. The update on that is it is sooo close to being finished! All the tracks are done, so now I’m just layering in vocals. I’ll be done with the male vocals this weekend, and Leah will knock out the female vocals before New Years. So we are going to meet our deadline. 🙂

  I’ll do my own rough mixes and put those online so you can hear how the songs go. It’ll probably take a few weeks longer to get polished mixes, but those are just for demo purposes anyway. Lead sheets will be ready by January 10th, and then shortly after that those will evolve into piano/vocal books, and then full scores. Since most schools use canned tracks (which I recommend since we have the best canned tracks around) the lead sheets are all you really need.

  It was a tall order indeed, but we are gonna make it. I’m so proud of the Go Musicals team!!!

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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