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My collaborators and I have thrown ourselves into our next musical based on a true-life crime. I am loving the massive amounts of research we are doing and writing for characters who were real life people who pulled off impressive (albeit illegal) acts.
Can't wait to share more with you once we've completed our first draft!
A.B.M. Musicals was selected to attend an upcoming Writer-Producer Speed Date facilitated by Theatre Resources Unlimited.
Becca Anderson and Julian Blackmore will be attending and pitching their holiday musical SNOW WAY OUT (written with Dan Marshall). We are grateful for the opportunity and looking forward to meeting the other writers and producers who will be in attendance.
In SNOW WAY OUT, four strangers rent a rustic cabin each hoping for a solitary holiday. Blair, heavily pregnant, is trying to avoid her parents. Divorcee Charlie didn’t get invited to Christmas this year. Sherry, a pantheistic new-age spiritualist only wants to be with the ashes of her beloved Roger. And Colin, a product of the foster care system, always spends Christmas alone. But everyone’s antisocial plans are frozen when an AirBnB glitch and unforeseen blizzard leave them trapped in the same cabin. They have to overcome differences and work together if they want to get the Christmas they were hoping for.
SNOW WAY OUT is an off-beat, 4-actor, 90-minute holiday comedy performed on a unit set with a small band (piano, drums, bass & wind). It’s great for date nights, office parties, and audiences seeking holiday entertainment that isn’t aimed at children. A relentlessly tuneful pop score pairs up with a side-splitting, farcical book and snappy lyrics by an award-winning creative team.
A blackout, holiday spirits, and mysterious body bag converge to prove that even if you do escape your family, no one escapes Christmas. There’s SNOW WAY OUT!
My frequent collaborators Julian Blackmore and Dan Marshall and I have launched a website specifically for our collaborative writing. Visit A.B.M. Musicals to find out more about our shows Academia Nuts, Snow Way Out, and The Suicide Club.
President Mom has now had several productions across the United States, so I pulled together a sizzle reel from footage from one of the recent productions. Enjoy!
Becca has written several educational songs for FunKiddzTV, an online educational series. Becca's lyrics can be heard in many of their videos, and she frequently gets to work with collaborator Julian Blackmore on these songs.
You can follow FunKiddzTV on YouTube here.
Here's a little bit more about FunKiddzTv:
"FunKiddzTV is designed to engage and educate kids from all over the world through a series of upbeat animated Music Videos, stories and interactive learning. Here, your child can learn everything under the sun, from ABC to Animals, colors to shapes, and so much more! Our programming is among the best at helping children learn education basics in an entertaining way Here we house one of the internet’s largest collections of educational resources, nursery rhymes for children, and cartoons for the whole family. Our content is intended help grow with your child. Enjoy our huge collection of nursery rhymes for your children, that you and baby can sing together. Make sure to subscribe today so you don't miss any of the fun!"
My collaborators Julian Blackmore, Dan Marshall, Thomas Caruso, and I were lucky enough to have a fantastic public reading of Snow Way Out at the York Theatre Company in December.
The 90 minute 4 character musical closed out the 2016 Developmental Reading Series and starred Max Crumm, Lesli Margherita, Lance Rubin, and Aneesh Sheth. It was thrilling to hear the show performed by such an incredible cast of all-stars and to get feedback from a live audience for this new piece.
Looking forward to sharing an update on the show soon.
I've been collecting my thoughts on feminism/life in urban America on a separate website I'm calling Femme Chose. At Femme Chose, I've also been interviewing female writers and sharing those conversations via a podcast called Shakespeare's Sisters (a Virginia Woolf tip of the hat). You can check it out on the site or subscribe through iTunes. Check it out, and if you like it, be sure to write a review!
If you're a female writer who'd like to be interviewed, send me an email at becca at whynotbecca dot com.
Cheers!
A quick "Thank You" to CAP21 for always being a space dedicated to nurturing new musical theatre, but especially for allowing Becca, Dan Marshall, and Julian Blackmore to work on their Christmas musical Snow Way Out this week. The team is looking forward to continue to grow the show with CAP21.
Becca and her frequent collaborator Hudson Meredith have started a comedy video channel called Bangs & Face. Website is forthcoming, but you can check out the YouTube channel now!
Becca recently completed Sketch 101 at the Upright Citizens Brigade Training Center in NYC. Samples from her sketch portfolio are now on the site here.
Becca was asked to write a guest blog entry for the Kevin Spacey Foundation about her experience as a grant recipient. Her blog can be found here.
My full-length play will receive a workshop reading at The Blank Theatre in Hollywood on May 4th as part of their Living Room Series presentations of new works.
I'm thrilled for this opportunity to hear this play in front of an audience for the first time and to work with theatre-makers on the West Coast.
If you're in LA, come check it out for free at 8pm on Monday, May 4th at the Blank's Second Stage Theatre, 6500 Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood. I'd love to see you there!
Dan Marshall and I just returned from an incredible week as the Tam & Young Arts Chair guest teachers at 'Iolani School in Honolulu.
We taught twelve classes ranging from Finding the Writer's Voice to Quiet Subversion: Musicals of the 1960s, and we worked with over 100 students in the Upper School. The students were attentive, involved, endlessly creative, and open to dive outside of their comfort zones. For that, we'd like to say, "mahalo!"
Additionally, Dan and I were lucky enough to get to take in some of the beautiful sights of Oahu. We enjoyed surfing The Seconds, swimming in the Makapu'u Tide Pools, checking out the swap meet at Aloha Stadium, and even running the Hapalua Half-Marathon!
Ke Akua pu a hui hou!
Christmas Quartet, the newest musical by Becca Anderson, Julian Blackmore, and Dan Marshall, will have a developmental reading in late March as part of the lovely Charissa Bertel's Composer Salon Series.
Christmas Quartet had a private reading in New York City in December of 2014.
The talented students at the 'Iolani School in Honolulu will be presenting President Mom in April.
My collaborator and I have been invited to visit the school, teaching master classes, presenting a cabaret, and attending rehearsals as part of the Tam & Young Arts Chair visiting artist program.
We are excited and grateful for this opportunity and can't wait to experience the Aloha state and meet these gifted young performers!
We are honored and thrilled to be included on this exciting list from Hypable as one of the 10 best NYC theater shows of 2014! Keeping company with Aladdin and Heathers will most likely go to our heads. (It already has).
I am thrilled to share that my musical Academia Nuts, written with Julian Blackmore and Dan Marshall, was named the Play By Play Best New Musical at the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival.
Our fabulous director Thomas Caruso was awarded the prize for Excellence in Direction, our actors Jennifer Simard and Alyse Alan Louis won awards for their performances, and the writing team received Honorable Mention in the categories of Excellence in Writing (Book) and Excellence in Writing (Lyrics).
Congratulations to all the winners! A full list can be found here.
Academia Nuts is featured on page 20 of today's (July 23, 2014) Metro New York as the number one show from the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival! We are flattered and honored to be in great company (they also loved Cloned! and Searchng for Romeo). If you're in New York City, pick up a copy and give it a read!
We finished up our sold out run at NYMF this week. It was an exciting and wonderful experience, and I am thrilled I was able to be a part of the festival and this production. Rehearsing, rewriting, and producing were a workout and a blessing.
Thank you to The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust, and the Kevin Spacey Foundation: America for support Academia Nuts. I could never have put the show up without these generous organizations that care about and foster the arts.
Our full cast and creative team have been announced, and we couldn't be more pleased!
Rehearsals have begun, and the time is doing an amazing job with the material already. We are thrilled and humbled by all of the talent involved with Academia Nuts this summer, and I hope you can come see the show. Tickets go on sale on June 16th!
