VIDEOS: The Mashup Project Pairs Songs From HAMILTON, FUN HOME, WAITRESS and SPRING AWAKENING With Pop Hits

By: Nov. 18, 2015
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You see them all over YouTube; singers, both professional and amateur, putting their own personal stamps on the latest pop hits and sending them out into cyberspace for millions, or sometimes just dozens, to see.

Broadway fans are especially passionate about covering their favorite theatre songs on video, but, as they say in KINKY BOOTS, Broadway is still a niche market.

Enter The Mashup Project, the trio of Anna Ty Bergman, Melanie Brook, and Kerri George, who take great songs from Broadway's pop scores and match them up with numbers by more nationally known artists.

It all started when Bergman conceived and arranged a mashup of FUN HOME's "Ring Of Keys" with Ingrid Michaelson's "The Chain" for Megan Minutillo's Ladies of Eve Concert at 54 Below. She and Brook had been working on mashups together for over a year, but this arrangement needed a third voice. When George was added, The Mashup Project was begun, including combinations of HAMILTON's "Helpless" with Mariah Carey's "Always Be My Baby," SPRING AWAKENING's "Mama Who Bore Me" with Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" and Sara Bareilles' "Manhattan" with a song from her score for WAITRESS, "She Used To Be Mine."

The trio's off-camera collaborators include Nat Zegree, Alexander Sage Oyen and Warren Freeman.

The Mashup Project can be seen at the Second Annual UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER SOIREE on December 6 at Don't Tell Mama (click here) and on January 11th at the LezCab Benefit concert at Joe's Pub (click here). Visit The Mashup Project on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mashupseries.


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