July 17, 2008
The Legend of Stagecoach Mary has been selected to be part of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals on October 20th and 21st.
Trickybox collaborators Curtis Moore and Thomas Mizer turn the idea of the real American hero on its head. That unexpected, true-life hero is Mary Fields, an ex-slave who heads to the Wild West to find freedom, adventure, and a good strong whiskey.
Click here to read more and hear songs from the show, or visit NAMT.org for more information on the festival.
Posted by C199Moore at 07:21 PM
May 08, 2008
Trickybox artist Curtis Moore provided orchestrations for the world premier of Saved, a new musical with Music and Lyrics by Obie Award winner Michael Friedman and Book and Lyrics by John Dempsey and Obie Award winner Rinne Groff, based on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture written by Brian Dannelly and
Michael Urban. Saved was presented at Playwrights Horizons from May 9 - June 22, 2008, directed by Gary Griffin.
Posted by C199Moore at 03:40 PM
January 25, 2008
The Legend of Stagecoach Mary, a new musical by Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore, is an irreverent yet emotional tall tale about the power of diversity, the strength of love and the kick of saloon whiskey, combining roof-raising dances, an onstage bluegrass band, sweet melodies and slapstick comedy. Did we mention it's based on a too-good-to-be-fiction story? When ex-slave Mary Fields heads to 1880s Montana to find freedom, adventure and her long-lost best friend, she discovers a gaggle of square-dancing nuns and a town full of cowboys in need of a little lesson in the American Dream.
Listen to material from THE LEGEND OF STAGECOACH MARY:
Posted by C199Moore at 12:47 PM
December 23, 2007
A new musical with music by Curtis Moore, lyrics by Thomas Mizer, Triangle is an intimate epic, journeying through questions of faith, responsibility and desire.
Triangle was commissioned by the Williamstown Theatre Festival and developed at the Eugene O'Neill Music Theatre Conference.
Against the backdrop of an historic New York tragedy, two couples from different eras, a Jewish seamstress, her Italian foreman, a modern historian and his free-spirited boyfriend, grapple with what it means to risk everything you have and everything you believe for love.
Triangle had its premiere as part of the 2005 Williamstown Theatre Festival season.
Listen to material from TRIANGLE:
Following last summer’s commission at Williamstown, Triangle, the new romantic musical by Curtis Moore and Thomas Mizer, was selected as one of only two new works presented at the 2006 National Music Theater Conference. Under the direction of Robert Longbottom (Sideshow), this original, full-length piece received a two-week workshop and four public readings (beginning July 22) at the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Center in Waterford, Connecticut.
Posted by C199Moore at 12:49 PM
November 16, 2007
Trickybox artist Curtis Moore worked with Mel Marvin as Associate Composer on Lincoln Center's Production of Shakespeare's Cymbeline, starring Martha Plimpton, Phylicia Rashad, Michael Cerveris, and John Cullum, among others. Under the direction of Mark Lamos, Cymbeline opens on Broadway December 2, 2007.
Posted by C199Moore at 09:06 AM
August 01, 2007
Trickybox artist Curtis Moore worked with composer Mark Bennett and orchestrator Dan Lipton, producing and orchestrating the opening sequence to a new musical as part La Jolla's Page To Stage Workshop series. Most Wanted was inspired by the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace by Andrew Cunanan. Written by Mark Bennett and Jessica Hagedorn, and directed by Michael Grief, Most Wanted was presented at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego October 2 - 14, 2007 as the inaugural production in The Edge.
Posted by C199Moore at 03:16 PM
April 05, 2007
The world-premiere recording of the award-winning musical The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin was released on April 3, by Ghostlight Records. Written by Kirsten Childs, and originally produced by Playwrights Horizons, The Bubbly Black Girl features LaChanze, Felicia Finley, Darius DeHaas and more.
Trickybox artist Curtis Moore co-produced the album with Grammy Award winner Joel Moss, with Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight president and co-founder Kurt Deutsch as executive producer. Curtis also provided the arrangements and orchestrations. You can listen to samples at iTunes, Amazon, or Sh-K-Boom.com.
Posted by C199Moore at 01:47 PM
February 17, 2007
Trickybox artist Curtis Moore is proud to have worked with renowned composer Mark Bennett (ibdb) on the third installment of Tom Stoppard's groundbreaking trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, at Lincoln Center. Curtis produced and orchestrated material for the American Premier, and co-produced the album with Mr. Bennett. The Coast of Utopia starred Ethan Hawke, Billy Crudup, Martha Plimpton, Richard Easton, among others. The Coast of Utopia opened on Broadway February 18th, 2007.
Curtis also produced the album of music from The Coast of Utopia, which is available at Sh-K-Boom Records.
Posted by C199Moore at 11:50 PM
June 01, 2006
Based on a story from Argentina, The Bus to Buenos Aires is filled with laughter, heart-ache and family, all in a fifteen minute musical with music by Curtis Moore, book and lyrics by Thomas Mizer. After five years of self-imposed exile, Paulo returns home for the funeral of one of his three sisters, but unfortunately he doesn’t know which one has died. In the surreal limbo of his long journey through the night, he is visited by visions of his sisters and must play a cruel game to determine their fates.
Listen to material from THE BUS TO BUENOS AIRES:
Mizer and Moore’s one-act musical had its New York Premiere Production as part of Ensemble Studio Theater’s trend-setting Marathon 2006. Opening June 13, the cast included Sebastian LaCause (Broadway’s Rocky Horror) and Jennie Eisenhower (Barrymore Award Winner).
Reviews:
"a touching mini-musical (it's easy to see Antonio Banderas in the lead, should it ever be expanded to movie length)"
New York Times, June 22, 2006
"The belle of this theatrical ball might just be Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore’s The Bus to Buenos Aires … it’s an evocative piece in which whimsy and woe are deftly balanced by its talented creators. It also has a lovely flamenco-tinged score that would beg a cast recording if it were a few songs longer."
Broadway World, June 23, 2006
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August 30, 2003
A Wifetime Original Musical
For the Love of Tiffany, a new musical with music by Curtis Moore, lyrics by Amanda Green, and a book by Matthew Brookshire and Thomas Mizer, draws its inspiration from the trash, tragedy and triumph found in the made-for-TV movies of women's television. The protagonist, Stephanie, is obsessed with the trials and tribulations of the heroines from Wifetime movies, at the expense of having any real adventures of her own. That all changes the day she meets both the man of her dreams and her favorite Wifetime Movie star, the titular Tiffany Jenkins.
Listen to material from FOR THE LOVE OF TIFFANY:
Tiffany had a successful, sold-out run at the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival. The production starred Tony nominee Nancy Opel (Urinetown), and was directed by Matthew Brookshire, with music direction by Tom Kitt.
Reviews:
"A smartly silly farce custom-tailored for the Urinetown crowd … "Be a Little Less Stupid," the finale, is one of the best new comic songs to come along in ages."
Wall Street Journal, August 22, 2003
"Moore's music is infectious, most notably the anthem "Let America Come" and "Be a Little Less Stupid.""
American Theater Web, August 2003
"The plot has endless twists. The references to Tiffany's past television films -- all a chance to further parody the plots and titles -- are dead on … Everyone, including the appreciative audience, leaves happy."
Backstage, September 5, 2003
Posted by C199Moore at 10:20 PM
January 16, 1998
From Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic, The House of the Seven Gables, a musical by Curtis Moore and Thomas Mizer, tells the sweeping gothic story of two families and the two hundred year old curse that haunts them. Phoebe, lost and alone, arrives in the misty streets of Salem to spend the summer with her elderly cousins unaware that ghosts, murder and true-love await her under the gables of their ancestral home. Winner of a 1998 New York ASCAP workshop.
Listen to material from THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES:
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