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…”
Please share, friends!
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…”
Please share, friends!
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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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
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.
Just click the links below to hear the Gayland songs we recorded on November 20, 2017 at the the Yellow Sound Lab and Log Cabin studios in New York. This set is a mix of many new numbers that have never before been recorded, as well as new versions of some old favs that have been part of Gayland since the beginning.
Act 1, Scene 1, “Rainbow, Shmainbow”.mp3
Act 1, Scene 2, “Teeniest, Weeniest, Talk Show In America”.mp3
Act 1, Scene 3, “Don’t Forget Your Bible”.mp3
Act 1, Scene 4, “Willow Show – Early Stabs”.mp3
Act 1, Scene 5, “I Want To Sum With You”.mp3
Act 1, Scene 6, “I Kissed A Boy”.mp3
Act 1, Scene 6, “Hero”.mp3
Act 1, Scene 7 “In Eden Fair”.mp3
Act 1, Scene 8, “Willow Show – Breakthrough”.mp3
Act 1, Scene 10, “Mismatch Mercy Mission TV Spot”.mp3
Act 1, Scene 12, “Mismatch Mercy Mission”.mp3
Act 1, Scene 16, “Camera Fantasia”.mp3
Act 1, Scene 20, “Willow Show – Breeder Shock”.mp3
Act 2, Scene 1, “Swami of Salami”.mp3
Act 2, Scene 3, “Breeder”.mp3
Act 2, Scene 3, “I’m A Real Man”.mp3
Act 2, Scene 4, “Ding!”.mp3
Act 2, Scene 10, “I Wanna See Your ‘O’ Face”.mp3
Thanks again to our very talented team!
Gayland words and music ©2018 Scott R. King and Christopher St. John.
Interview with Twist Online.
We recently had a conversation with Christopher St. John and Scott King about their new project, ‘Gayland’. It’s a musical comedy that will be lots of fun.
Twist Online: So give me the premise for Gayland in a nutshell.
Christopher St. John: It’s a love story set in an alternate universe in which almost everyone is gay. And there are just a few breeders. They’re this marginalized group, struggling for their rights.
Twist Online: So it’s our world, backwards.
Christopher St. John: Exactly.
Twist Online: And what’s the meaning of this rainbow Confederate flag logo? {Editor’s note: This logo was changed later in 2017.}
Scott King: In the recent history of the Gayland version America, there was a group of states that held breeders in subjection. The females were used as breeding stock, and the males were used for labor.
Christopher St. John: That was the Rainbow Confederacy.
Scott King: And in the present, there are some states where lot of people hold anti-breeder views. For a local politician, anti-breeder rhetoric is the gift that keeps on giving.
Christopher St. John: Sound familiar?
Twist Online: Ouch! A little too familiar. So when you did you first have Gayland on the stage?
Christopher St. John: In the New Orleans Fringe Festival in 2013.
Twist Online: In the south? Was it controversial?
Christopher St. John: There were some rumblings. But a lot of people loved it. Of course, it was a Fringe audience.
Scott King: We were in the largest Fringe Festival venue, Marigny Opera House. And by the end of the Festival, it was standing room only.
Christopher St. John: One of the local papers, NOLA Defender, called Gayland “the must-see of Fringe Festival.”
Twist Online: So this is about a gay world, but I understand that one of you is gay, and one of you is straight.
Scott King: Correct.
Twist Online: Which is which?
Christopher St. John: You can’t tell by looking?
Scott King: Maybe you need to change the batteries on your gaydar.
Christopher St. John: Here’s something even weirder: One of us is a Republican, and one of us is a Democrat.
Twist Online: Okay, now you’re freaking me out. How did you two meet?
Scott King: We met in a church in San Francisco.
Twist Online: In a church?
Scott King: Yes, an Episcopal church.
Christopher St. John: St. Gregory’s. And there were like tons of composers there. All the music was a capella. We did a lot of chant and modal music.
Scott King: Actually, the first big piece that Christopher and I worked on together was a Passion. We harmonized the gospels. Literally.
Christopher St. John: And then we did an opera set in the world of pharmaceutical marketing. A comedy, of course.
Scott King: Oomph! it was called.
Twist Online: What’s happening with Gayland now?
Scott King: We’ve been workshopping it in New York. We had a great read on the main stage at the York Theatre.
Christopher St. John: They’re a very forward-thinking company. They were part of the development for Avenue Q.
Scott King: Every time it’s in front of an audience, we learn more.
Christopher St. John: We get a lot of good response to the fact that we have so many strong women characters. There’s still a hunger for that.
Scott King: The whole Gayland world is female-led. Breeder guys are at the bottom of the heap.
Twist Online: Next public performance?
Scott King: We’re having a table read at 224 Studios in Manhattan on February 15th.
Christopher St. John: Our aim is to create a version that can work on Broadway.
Twist Online: Are you having to make a lot of changes to go from edgy to mainstream?
Christopher St. John: Well, one of the songs went from “Don’t Forget Your Cock Ring” to “Don’t Forget Your Bible,” which must be one of the hardest U-turns in the history of theatre.
Twist Online: Okay, readers: Follow the Gayland gala on Facebook, Twitter and WordPress. Ciao!
We are very fortunate to be working with the York Theatre. Their specialty is developing and producing new musicals. In fact, they got a special Drama Desk Award for their contributions in this area.
So we are very happy to be announcing our first rehearsal for the upcoming Gayland table read at the York. Friday, October 16th, is the big day.
Huzzah for boots on the ground!