Sondheim in the Trap (part of FailSafe Festival 2018) at Sonnet Theater @ The Producers Club
Dates: 8/10/2018 - 8/11/2018
📍 Theatre: Sonnet Theater @ The Producers Club
358 W. 44th Street
New York, 10036
Tickets: PAY-WHAT-YOU-WILL
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Synopsis
Stephen Joshua Sondheim - an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater.
Trap - a style of popular music that developed in the late 1990s to early 2000s from Southern hip-hop in the United States.
"Sondheim in the Trap" re-imagines a selection of Stephen Sondheim’s greatest classics as trap songs. Watch as a group of ambitious young performers turn the Great American Musical Theatre songbook on it’s head!
Conceived and Written by
Star Johnson
Directed by
Roxie Wilson
Starring
Roxie Wilson
Alana Johnson
Dara Jemmot
Part of FailSafe Festival 2018
Artist Information
Star Johnson is a lyricist, composer and performance artist hailing from Washington, DC. She has written the book, music and lyrics for How to Quit Your Day Job, Flattops and F Words, good girl/bad part of town and Rooftops: A Song Cycle, mixing traditional musical theatre stylings with soul, r&b and hip-hop. Over the years, her work has been featured at the Kennedy Center, Feinstein's/54 Below, New York Musical Festival, The Producer's Club, and Capital Fringe Festival (best musical), and she's been interviewed for The Washington Post, Playbill and Broadway World. Star recently earned a workshop residency at the Anacostia Arts Center in Southeast, Washington, DC where she will be developing a musical theatre lab with residents of the Anacostia community in Summer 2018.
Stephen Joshua Sondheim - an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater.
Trap - a style of popular music that developed in the late 1990s to early 2000s from Southern hip-hop in the United States.
"Sondheim in the Trap" re-imagines a selection of Stephen Sondheim’s greatest classics as trap songs. Watch as a group of ambitious young performers turn the Great American Musical Theatre songbook on it’s head!
Conceived and Written by
Star Johnson
Directed by
Roxie Wilson
Starring
Roxie Wilson
Alana Johnson
Dara Jemmot
Part of FailSafe Festival 2018
Artist Information
Star Johnson is a lyricist, composer and performance artist hailing from Washington, DC. She has written the book, music and lyrics for How to Quit Your Day Job, Flattops and F Words, good girl/bad part of town and Rooftops: A Song Cycle, mixing traditional musical theatre stylings with soul, r&b and hip-hop. Over the years, her work has been featured at the Kennedy Center, Feinstein's/54 Below, New York Musical Festival, The Producer's Club, and Capital Fringe Festival (best musical), and she's been interviewed for The Washington Post, Playbill and Broadway World. Star recently earned a workshop residency at the Anacostia Arts Center in Southeast, Washington, DC where she will be developing a musical theatre lab with residents of the Anacostia community in Summer 2018.
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