Check out the latest Gayland animated lyric video! This one spoofs the opening number of a little musical you may have heard of.
“How does a breeder, deevie, son of Mother God and two daddies…”
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New Gayland video: “Rainbow, Shmainbow”
We’re putting together a series of videos to bring the words and music of Gayland to life, right before your very eyes! The first video is for “Rainbow, Shmainbow,” Gayland’s opening number.
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Live recordings!
We’re rounding out our collection of downloadable tracks with recordings from live performances.
These are from Fringe Festival in New Orleans and Table Reads in New York, spanning 2013 to 2017.
Here are the new songs we’ve just added. We’re also interpolating this into the downloadable song files on the Downloads page, so it’s possible to hear almost all the songs in order.
In this pic, Nick Shackleford, Lori DeLeon, and Lesley DeMartin tussle at Fringe Festival 2013.
Act 1, Scene 13, “Breeder Shock Promo” (Live).m4a
Act 1, Scene 14, “Young Buck/Old Buck” (Live).m4a
Act 1, Scene 18 “I’ve Always Been Different” (Live).m4a
Act 2, Scene 3, “#Bring Back Zack” (Live).m4a
Act 2, Scene 5, “Mismatch Mercy Mission Reprise” (Live).m4a
Act 2, Scene 6, “Political Wife” (Live).m4a
Act 2, Scene 7, “Soup and Salad” (Live).m4a
Act 2, Scene 9, “Baby Birthin’ Blues” (Live).m4a
Act 2, Scene 9, “If” (Live).m4a
Act 2, Scene 9, “Sensitive Me” (Live).m4a
Act 2, Scene 13, “Thank You for Visiting Gayland” (Live).m4a
Words and music ©2018 Scott R. King and Christopher St. John.
129 anti-gay bills were introduced in 2017: This is the world Gayland is satirizing
According to NBC News, at least 129 anti-LGBTQ bills were introduced across 30 states during the 2017 state legislative season. This info is from a new report published by LGBTQ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Twelve of these bills, which range from adoption laws to “religious freedom” legislation, became law. “If an LGBTQ couple drove from Maine to California today, their legal rights and civil rights protections could change more than 20 times at state borders and city lines,” HRC President Chad Griffin said.
In Gayland, a conservative politician tries to pass the Breeder Repatriation Act as a way to get rid of all the breeders. As this NBC News story shows, we are just a step or two ahead of reality. Read story
Full script of Gayland with embedded audio samples now available!
We’re beginning the process of shopping Gayland around to producers and organizations of all sizes. So whether you’re a Broadway producer, a director at a local theatre, or a student organizing a guerrilla production, we’d love to hear from you!
In this script PDF, we’ve embedded audio samples of many of the songs, so it’s easy to get a sense of the sound as you read.
Click here to download a pdf of the script with embedded music samples. You can also download full mp3 files of many of the songs here.
New Gayland recording in New York captures new music and yields high-energy tracks
After a week of rehearsals, the cast, band and music director for Gayland gathered at the Yellow Sound Lab and Log Cabin studios in New York to capture the new music we’ve been working on over the last year. Thanks to our awesome team!
- Mark Hartman: Music Director
- Danielle Erin Rhodes: Willow
- Stephanie Umoh: Boo
- Tristan Shuler: Zack
- Sam Given: Gaige
- Kristin Feeney: Sally, Ensemble
- Alex Thompson: Harry Tums, Ensemble, Keyboards
- Joe Choroszewski: Drums
- Saadi Zain: Bass
- Yuri Suzuki: Engineer
- Rich Hill: Engineer
Anti-gay flag dance: Even Gayland has never tried this kind of thematic triple back flip
MassResistance, an anti-gay conservative organization tagged as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, launched their conference last week with a lovely flag dance interpreting a song about mistakes and redemption.
Gayland pushes some boundaries, but even we’ve never tried this kind of thematic triple back flip. Hilarious and tragic at the same time, we are in awe at the multiplicity of meanings packed into this performance.
We’ll be making studio recordings of new songs on November 20, 2017
We’ll be going into a New York recording studio on November 20 with the Gayland cast and music director Mark Hartman to make recordings of the new songs. This will be an opportunity for the creative team to hear how the new music is working with the singers. And we’ll also be choosing tracks to include in our presentation to Broadway producers and directors early next year.
Gayland team completes extensive revisions
We had the opportunity to put Gayland in front of an accomplished Broadway director in early 2017. He provided us with detailed and very valuable feedback. So we’ve taken most of the past year to take another look at Gayland, with an eye to focussing more on the story and dialing down some of the “travelog” elements.
That turned into a gargantuan task, which included taking out two major characters and rewriting most of the first act. Whew! The new Gayland 8.0 has a much cleaner storyline and an entirely new technique for the scenes set on The Willow Show. We’re now investigating our next steps.
Gayland, The Musical 