| Canada's Award-winning musical, THE LOUDER WE GET, releases new music video in celebration LGBTQ2S Pride and Graduating Class of 2020 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 09:41 am EDT 06/25/20 | |
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| On the heels of its sweeping success at Theatre Calgary, receiving Calgary Theatre Critics Award nominations for Best Production of a Musical and Best Leading Performance (Evan Kinnane), the producers and creative team behind the musical The Louder We Get are thrilled to release a new music video of the exhilarating song "This Dance Is For You." The video, now available online at TheLouderWeGet.com, was filmed remotely by each of the participants in honor of the graduating class of 2020 who won't have the opportunity to attend their proms and graduation, and in celebration of Pride Month 2020. In celebration of Pride Month, the company of The Louder We Get encourages fans of the new "This Dance Is For You" video to donate to PFLAG Canada, founded by parents who wished to help themselves and their family members understand and accept their LGBTQ2S children; and The Marsha P. Johnson Institute, which protects and defends the human rights of black transgender people. The Louder We Get is an original musical from Canadian writers, Kent Staines, Colleen Dauncey and Akiva Romer-Segal, which follows the real-life events of Marc Hall, who fought for his right to take his boyfriend to his high school prom. His story motivates and inspires people to embrace equality and stand up for who they are. The Louder We Get is about speaking up for what you believe, standing up for someone you care about, and making change. The musical recently enjoyed a critical and popular success in a first-class production at Theatre Calgary (theatrecalgary.com) where it debuted in January of this year and was the top-selling show of its 2019/20 season. "The Louder We Get is an exciting new musical about Canadian Marc Hall, an unlikely hero who stood up to power, spoke the truth, and changed the world," says Lonny Price, director of The Louder We Get. "His tale calls forth the hero in us all to step up and make a difference. With an exciting original score by Colleen Dauncey and Akiva Romer-Segal, and a funny, moving book by Kent Staines, along with a thrilling career defining performance by Evan Kinnane, The Louder We Get reminds us when young people make their voices heard, (Greta Thurnberg), they change the world!" "COVID-19 hit just a few weeks after we wrapped up our successful Theatre Calgary production," comments producer Mary Young Leckie, Solo Productions. "Fans were reaching out to us on social media asking if a song from the musical would be released. I was inspired by the smart ways the arts community was connecting with and uplifting audiences during our global lockdown. With prom season and Pride Month underway The Louder We Get team wants to share some of our wonderful joyful music and dance with the world." Theatre Calgary Artistic Director Stafford Arima adds, "Marc Hall's story is one of bravery and persistence, and the capacity young people have to speak to truth, to power and effect change. The show is hugely inspiring and fun. The graduating class of 2020 is entering into a great deal of uncertainty - we want to celebrate them and acknowledge them. So, this dance is for them!" The creative team on the video included Rebecca Howell (choreographer), Joshua Zecher-Ross (music director), Justin Goldner (arrangements), Oskar Haggdahl (drummer), and film and television editor Diane Brunjes (The Clark Sisters, Sony Pictures). "This Dance Is For You" begins with an introduction from Marc Hall himself and lead actor Evan Kinnane (Moulin Rouge! Broadway), who played Hall in the Calgary production. The video features the cast of the Theatre Calgary production including Lee MacDougall (Come From Away, Broadway) Thom Allison ( Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Broadway), Rielle Braid, Kevin Corey, Naomi Costain, Deann DeGruijter, Alexa Elser, Fionn Laird, Ryan Maschke, Katie McMillan, Glen Mills, Joel Schaefer, and Scott Olynek. Making their Theatre Calgary debuts were Devin Cecchetto, Nick Dolan, Alexandra Gratton, Kira Guloien, Sara Hinding, Isidora Kecman, Jamie Mayers, Kolton Stewart, and Roel Suasin. The Louder We Get had its World Premiere under the title Prom Queen at the Segal Centre in Montreal in 2016 before it became talk of the 2017 NAMT Festival and The Other Place in the UK. Subsequently, Lonny Price (Sunset Boulevard starring Glenn Close; Lady Day at Emerson Bar and Grill starring Audra McDonald), the Emmy-winning, Tony-nominated director was brought on to direct the production under the auspices of Theatre Calgary Artistic Director Stafford Arima and producer Mary Young Leckie of Solo Productions. The international creative team was rounded out by Musical Director Joshua Zecher-Ross (Be More Chill, Broadway; Mary & Max - A New Musical, Theatre Calgary), Orchestrator Justin Goldner (funkybutter.com), Choreographer Rebecca Howell (Moulin Rouge! The Musical - Assoc. Choreographer, Broadway; The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4: The Musical, West End), Set designer James Noone (Sunset Boulevard - revival, Lady Day at Emerson's). ABOUT THE CREATORS OF THE LOUDER WE GET LONNY PRICE (Director) Broadway: Sunset Boulevard, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, 110 in the Shade, 'Master Harold'... and the Boys, Sally Marr and Her Escorts, Urban Cowboy, A Class Act. West End: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill. English National Opera: Man of La Mancha, Carousel, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd. Off-Broadway: Scotland, PA (Roundabout).Film/TV: the New York Philharmonic's Sweeney Todd, Company, Camelot, Candide, Passion (Emmy Award), Sondheim: The Birthday Concert! (Emmy Award). Additional television: Sweeney Todd (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Emmy Award), Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (HBO). Documentaries: Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened (Netflix), Hal Prince: The Director's Life (PBS). KENT STAINES (Book)has been working in the Canadian entertainment industry for 30 years as an actor, director and writer. His acting credits include leading roles in theatres across the country as well as work in film and television. Seasoned Calgary audiences might remember him as Prior Walter in ATP's production of Angels in America. Screenwriting credits include Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story (Tapestry Pictures/CTV), Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story (Screen Door/CTV), MVP (CBC series co-created with Mary Young Leckie), and the award-winning web series Chateau Laurier (Geneva Film Co/BravoFact). Upcoming projects include a musical adaptation of the award-winning film Maudie with music and lyrics by Sarah Slean. @kent_staines COLLEEN DAUNCEY & AKIVA ROMER-SEGAL (Composer & Lyricist)are contemporary musical theatre songwriting partners and best friends that first met at their Calgary high school. They have penned the scores to Going Under (Bravo Academy), Toronto Fringe hit Bremen Rock City (with librettist Sara Farb), and The Louder We Get (formerly Prom Queen: The Musical), which premiered at the Segal Centre in Montreal, received the 2016 Stage West Pechet Family Musical Award from the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and was showcased at the NAMT Festival of New Musicals (NYC), The Other Palace (London, UK), and the Grand Theatre (London, ON). Their musical Grow (with librettist Matt Murray) debuts at the Grand Theatre in April 2020, after workshop presentations at Sheridan College's Canadian Musical Theatre Project, the 2018 Next Stage Theatre Festival (Toronto, ON), and the 2020 Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals (East Haddam, CT).Colleen & Akiva's songs have been performed internationally by cabaret performers, recording artists, and Broadway stars. They are alumni of the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals, the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project in Chicago, Cutting-Edge Composers in NYC, Theatre 20's Composium, and Musical Stage Company's Launch Pad, Noteworthy, Make Me a Song and One Song Glory programs. They are grateful for support from the Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Records, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council For the Arts. www.colleenandakiva.com MARY YOUNG LECKIE (Producer) is renowned for producing true life stories for stage and screen. Her 2018 feature film Maudie , starring Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, distributed globally by Sony Classics, has been translated into 16 languages. Maudie is now being adapted for the stage by Kent Staines with songs and lyrics by Sarah Slean. Leckie's production of Stephen Massicotte's World War 1 love story Mary's Wedding (Toronto Premiere) at Crows Theatre in February 2019 was a critical and commercial success. Among her acclaimed films for television is Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story, based on the true story of Oshawa's Marc Hall and his fight for the right to take his boyfriend to prom. Now reimagined for the stage as The Louder We Get. This is the first theatrical production for Leckie with Broadway director Lonny Price and West End choreographer Becki Howell. On the slate for 2021 is the feature film Every Little Word written by Governor General award-winning writer Colleen Murphy and the series Cursed: Blood Of The Donnellys, based on the book by her screenwriter and novelist husband Keith Ross Leckie. Founded in 1968, THEATRE CALGARY (located in Alberta, Canada) is Calgary's oldest and largest professional theatre company. Under the vision of Artistic Director Stafford Arima (Broadway: Allegiance, West End: Ragtime, Off-Broadway: Carrie, Altar Boyz), Theatre Calgary's goal is to stand amongst the best theatres globally as a leader in innovative, impactful, and diverse programming. Some recent notable productions include The Little Prince - The Musical, Mary and Max A New Musical, and The Louder We Get. Learn more about us at theatrecalgary.com. |
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