Documentary Now: Original Cast Album - CO-OP

[LightsOut90]

Saw this tonight at DOC NYC and it is brilliant. John Mulaney is playing the Sondheim character, James Urbaniak is Hal Prince, Alex Brightman kills his riff on "Not Getting Married Today" and Paula Pell is hysterical as the Elaine Stretch character "Patty" and WOW can she sing

They also announced the songs will be available for download on iTunes the weeks the episode comes out (February 27th)

[uncageg]

Was this a one night thing? Can you post a link?

[LightsOut90]

Its an episode of the IFC show Documentary Now. Tonight was the World Premiere screening of it at a documentary festival here in NYC

[ljay889]

Is it the Sondheim songs?

[LightsOut90]

there areI believe six songs in the episode and they are all riffs on different songs from Company (Alex Brightman has a song about cocaine thats a spoof of Not Getting Married Today, Renee Elise Goldsberry has a song based off Another Hundred People etc etc) that were written by John Mulaney, Seth Meyers and Eli Bolin

[ggersten]

 

[ggersten]

Is this still scheduled for 27 February?  Because I'm not seeing it on the IFC schedule?  

[LightsOut90]

I believe the episode is now airing in March

[Esther2]

ggersten said: "Is this still scheduled for 27 February? Because I'm not seeing it on the IFC schedule?"

 

https://www.ifc.com/schedule

If you click through to the 27th, it's still listed there at 11m.

[BrodyFosse123]

And yes, a cast recording is being released as well on vinyl.  I'm sure it'll also be available on all digital platforms.  





Notes

Vocals: Alex Brightman, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Richard Kind, Paula Pell, Merideth Kaye Clark, Jesse Cromer, Alec Cameron Lugo, Bobbi MacKenzie, Norman Wilson, Leah Yorkston

Music by Eli Bolin
Lyrics by John Mulaney & Seth Meyers
Orchestrations by Mike Pettry

Recorded at The Relic Room, NYC
Recording and Mixing: Dave's Room, North Hollywood
Mastering: Bernie Grundman Mastering, Los Angeles
Mix Engineers: John Chamberlin, David Spreng

From the team that brought you Has Anyone Ever Told You You'd Look Better as a Brunette?, comes Co-op, the ill-fated Broadway show that opened and closed on the same night amid disastrous reviews.

Written by Simon Sawyer and directed by Howard Pine, the musical comedy centers around a cast of characters who all work, live or want to live in the same co-op, including Robbie the Doorman, Donna, the mistress of a tenant , Danny, the single guy just trying to get through the holidays, and Annie the tennis coach who dreams of living in the building.







 

 

[ggersten]

Esther2 said: "ggersten said: "Is this still scheduled for 27 February? Because I'm not seeing it on the IFC schedule?"



https://www.ifc.com/schedule

If you click throughto the 27th, it's still listed there at 11m."

Thanks. I was looking at the Documentary Now show page. My bad.

[haterobics]

ljay889 said: "Is it the Sondheim songs?"

In the latest EW, Mulaney said he selected Sondheim songs, wrote new lyrics for them, and then sent his lyrics to a composer who wrote new music for them.

Not finding a link to this article online.

[theatregoer3]

Everything about this makes me laugh. I think this is such a funny idea. The real documentary is so weird and they all look so rough in it. 

[FindingNamo]

Richard Kind performed a number live on Seth Meyers tonight and it is hilarious, next-level satire, a scrumptious, nutritious orange compared to a perfectly good Gerard Alessandrini parody apple. As Vulture once said before you had to pay for their articles, Documentary Now! exists to make "small groups of people extremely excited."

[uncageg]

Just set it to record on On Demand.

[jv92]

So many cigarettes. Mulaney has got Sondheim down. The real Sondheim makes the exact gesture on the cover of the CO-OP album when he's coaching Dean Jones on "Being Alive" in the control room. Brilliant. 

It'll probably only appeal to about 5,000 people in the country (I think a lot of younger theatre fans-- by younger I mean tweens and teens will be absolutely clueless watching it), but that's the brilliance of this series. 

I saw BATSH*T VALLEY online last weekend, and it was brilliant. Though it'll be hard to top Bill Hader as the Robert Evans-esque producer obsessed with winning an Oscar. 

[bk]

If you're going to spoof Sondheim, you better be good enough to not have false rhymes in your parody.  And the Richard Kind thing was loaded with them and therefore a fail for me.  The music captured the right flavor.

[jv92]

I'm the leader of the false rhyme police, but I've been more lenient about it in parody because... it's parody. This is supposed to be a show that closed on opening night, right? 

But it would have been nice. However, I'll save my irritation about poor craftsmanship for the score of COME FROM AWAY, etc. 

[Hest88]

I'm so in love with that album cover!