I’m very excited to announce that, one enchanted evening (6:00-8:30 on October 5th to be precise), we will host the first Across A Crowded Room meet-up at the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center! For over two hours, our new Library café will become a crowded room where you may, in fact, meet a stranger (or strangers…) with whom you can beautiful musicals together.
Participants will be placed into groups of composer, lyricists, book-writers, and singers, and given 60 minutes to a plot a synopsis with song titles and at least one complete song (with music and lyrics) in response to the prompt. In the last hour, a panel of distinguished musical theater professionals will be on hand to respond to the work and give advice and feedback.
While we will have a microphone and piano available for the final presentations, participants will need to bring whatever tools you need to write and compose in response to the prompt (staff paper, computers, keyboards/instruments, software, etc.).
Space is very limited, so sign up quickly [see the links below]. We only have time to allow about 10 groups to participate in the final, reviewed presentations, and the café can only accommodate a non-participating audience of about 60 for this event. However, if you can’t make it to New York, or want to participate remotely, we will try to connect participants through Google Hangouts. While those physically in the café will be first in line to present their work for the celebrity panelists, we will try to fit in a few remote presentations as well.
The schedule is below. If you want to participate as a writer or composer, please arrive by 6:00. If you just want to watch the concert, please arrive by 7:30.
6:00-6:30 Welcome and group assignments
6:30-7:30 Independent work
7:45-8:30 Concert
Signups
Click to signup as a composer.
Click to signup as a lyricist.
Click to signup as a bookwriter.
Click to signup as an audience member.