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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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
Check out the Gayland songs we recorded in November 2017
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!
- 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
Gayland words and music ©2018 Scott R. King and Christopher St. John.
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.
Time to get serious about Gayland – New pix of librettist and composer
In preparation for shopping the latest version of Gayland in the next few months we’ve recently completed a photoshoot with San Francisco Bay Area photographer Tom Minczeski. Here are some of of our more serious compositions. : )
Gayland, The Musical 