VENICE opens at the Public Theatre
June 6, 2013

Curtis Moore's musical Venice began performances at New York's Public Theater on May 28, and opens June 13th.

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Curtis Moore composes score for Lucky Guy with Tom Hanks
April 1, 2013

Lucky Guy with Tom Hanks

I'm so happy to be making my Broadway debut (as a composer) with Lucky Guy, starring Tom Hanks, which opened on April 1, 2013 (and is now extended through July)!

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Curtis Moore Produces Music for Dramatist Guild Video
February 28, 2013

I had a lot of fun working on this video, with a song written by Alan Menken and Craig Carnelia. I arranged, produced, and recorded the audio, with cameos from Stephen Schwartz, Georgia Stitt, Chris Miller, Benj Pasek, Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk. Jeremy Levine directed the video.

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Curtis Moore and Tom Mizer chosen to participate in Mercer Writers Colony
February 6, 2013
Curtis and Tom (NAMT) - Photo by Nic Kallaher

We're very excited to be part of the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals this winter.   

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Triangle is a hit at the NAMT Conference
October 12, 2012
Bryce Ryness, Margo Seibert and Wayne Wilcox rehearse for Triangle

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre presented our original musical Triangle as part of their 24th Annual Festival of New Musicals in October. This was a great opportunity for us to share our show with theater professionals from New York and around the country. The cast included Bryce Ryness (Godspell, Hair), Wayne Wilcox (Chaplin), Adam Heller (Caroline or Change, Merrily We Roll Along), Margot Siebert, Dana Steingold, and Carrie Cimma.

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Best Score at NYU/ASCAP Foundation TV & Film Scoring Workshop
September 20, 2012
Curtis Moore

I was extremely honored to receive the Best Composer Award from the faculty and visiting artists at the NYU/ASCAP Foundation TV & Film Scoring Workshop this past spring. The panel, including Sean Callery (24, Bones, Homeland) NYU film composer-in-residence Ira Newborn (Naked Gun, Blues Brothers) and Mark Snow (X-Files, Blue Bloods), called my cue "inventive, professional and striking by virtue of a remarkably colorful orchestration."

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Accepted Underscore

Triangle Musical Chosen for Workshop at TheatreWorks
June 7, 2012
New Works Festival at Theatreworks

We're very excited that Triangle has been selected for this summer’s TheatreWorks New Works Festival in Palo Alto, one of the premiere developmental opportunities for new musicals. During an intensive two week workshop, Triangle will receive three public staged readings (August 12, 16 & 18) directed by Meredith McDonough and featuring an amazing cast of New York and Bay Area actors.

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Trickybox Artist Dilia Jelen on American Idol
February 16, 2012
Dilia Jelen

Congratulations to Trickybox artist Dilia Jelen (www.diliamusica.com) for making it to “Hollywood Week” on American Idol!

Check out Dilia’s interview from American Idol.  

Dilia’s debut singles (released as her dance-pop persona Chica D) are available on iTunes here and here.

Dilia is the second Trickybox artist to make it to Hollywood on American Idol.   Our very own Karen Rodriguez was a top 12 finalist in season 10.   We discovered Karen at LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, and she sang on our songs which were included in the Todd Solondz film PalindromesKaren Rodriguez

Disco Super Hero

Lady Friend

Mexican Chocolate

Curtis Moore performing in The Bridge Project: Richard III
July 1, 2011
Curtis Moore, Kevin Spacey, Gemma Jones

Curtis Moore is very happy to have been asked back to be part of the third and final year of the Bridge Project, which opened to rave reviews at London's Old Vic Theater in July.

This production reunites Sam Mendes and Kevin Spacey for the first time since American Beauty, and marks Curtis' fifth Bridge production with Mendes and composer Mark Bennett, having previous collaborated on The Winter's Tale, The Cherry Orchard, As You Like It, and The Tempest.

Richard III played at BAM in January 2012, after a world tour in the fall of 2011.

Check out the video.

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Timon of Athens at the Public Theater
February 24, 2011
Timon of Athens

Timon of Athens opens at the Public Theater with an electric guitar score composed by Trickybox writer Curtis Moore. With an cast led by Richard Thomas and directed by Barry Edelstein, this production marks the debut of the Public Theater's Public LAB SHAKESPEARE program.

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Venice Named Year's Best Musical - Top 10 best plays and musicals by Time Magazine
November 18, 2010
Uzo Aduba in Venice at KC Rep

Venice, a musical collaboration between Eric Rosen, Matt Sax, and Trickybox Artist Curtis Moore, opened in Kansas city on April 18, 2010 to across the board Raves. Check out some of the reviews:

"Venice is [an] ambitious and expansive work, combining elements of Shakespeare, Greek tragedy, Brechtian allegory and dystopian political fable, all enhanced by rap narration and a melodic, rock-influenced score that is one of the most winning I have heard onstage in years."

Time Magazine, May 14, 2010

"Venice is hot.  As is in: Emotionally hot. Musically hot. Star-quality hot."

Variety, October 18, 2010

"Venice, a sweaty amalgam of Shakespearean plotting, political allegory and hip-hop jam, is truly exciting at its frequent best."

Backstage, October 18, 2010

"it points the way to thrilling and remarkably fresh artistic directions for musical theater."

Kansas City Star, April 2010

"The production-heavy hip hop fused world premiere musical Venice thrills."

Lost In Reviews, April 2010

"Venice, the newest production at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s Copaken Stage, is a mashup of styles that works on so many levels."

KCFree Press, April 20, 2010

"It’s crude, raw, offensive, devastating … and completely brilliant."

The University News, April 26, 2010

"Venice is the quantum leap that has every potential to redraw the map of Kansas City theatre."

KCMetropolis.org, April 28, 2010

 

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Clear Blue Tuesday premieres at the New York Music Theater Festival
September 7, 2009
Clear Blue Tuesday

Curtis Moore is proud to be part of the team working together on Clear Blue Tuesday, a new movie which explores the lives of eleven New Yorkers post 9/11. The movie is directed by Elizabeth Lucas, with script and songs written in collaboration with the cast. Trickybox artist Curtis Moore composed the score and produced the track “The Ritual.”   Clear Blue Tuesday premieres at the Quad Cinema in New York in September 2010.

CLEAR BLUE TUESDAY trailer from Elizabeth Lucas on Vimeo.

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Curtis Moore and Thomas Mizer receive a Jonathan Larson Grant
March 2, 2009
Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore

Trickybox collaborators Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore are extremely honored to have been selected to receive a 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant in recognition of their theatrical work, including the new musicals Triangle and The Legend of Stagecoach Mary. Administered by the American Theatre Wing, the Larson Grant is dedicated to honoring emerging talent and infusing the music theatre community with new work. The songwriting team’s music was featured at the Grant Presentation Event, March 17, 2009 in New York City.

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Curtis Moore and Matthew Brookshire make short list for Oscars
December 16, 2005
Palindromes

Variety announces that three songs from the Todd Solondz film, Palindromes, have made the final elegibility list of 42 songs for consideration for the original song Oscar. Trickybox songwriters Curtis Moore and Matthew Brookshire, along with Eytan Mirsky wrote, produced, and performed the songs.

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