And I called it Cats-achusetts- which is not funny, but in our house was the joke of the year.
Last summer, my wife and I went on a trip to Massachusetts. Because when you have a cat, your barometer for humor, poof, out the window. I, uh- I think that my favorite thing about being married is actually that you can share jokes with your wife or husband that are funny to you and that person and no one else other than maybe your cat. Words and music are by Lin-Manuel Miranda, probably best known. Pretty much everybody involved in this, the cast, the chorus, the musicians, the director, Michael Mayer- all from Broadway. And what happened next in this one school was transformed into a musical by a team of people who usually do this on Broadway. That's what they were there to deal with. There had been complaints about drugs being sold at these schools. They had fake Facebook accounts, of course. Back in May, 2011, at a bunch of high schools in Palm Beach County, Florida, a group of young police officers were sent undercover to pose as students. It's based on a true story you may remember from our radio program. Probably 70% to 80% of what you're about to hear is verbatim quotes from interviews. I just love that.Īnd so what you're about to hear is our first attempt at a musical based on journalism.
And then there's something really emotional. If you think about, like, the classic old musicals- Fiddler on the Roof or even A Chorus Line- it's like, they're funny at the beginning.
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And I think because of that, my basic sense of what makes a satisfying story actually comes from musicals much more than from TV or movies. I was taken to so many musicals as a kid. Act One, "21 Chump Street, the Musical." I've always wondered what it would mean to try one of our radio stories as a musical. Like, what would that be? I asked Carin in our interview, and she was game to speculate. But what if you wanted to stage it as kind of an old-school opera-opera, the kind that they take you on field trips to when you're a kid. Sure, you could do it is as a minimalist opera. Like Carin's story- we are not done with Carin's story.
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And today, instead of just applying the tools of journalism to everyday stories like we usually do, we try to harness the full power of music and theater. The fact is, there are so many ways you can tell a true story. We have journalism turned into a play that is structured like a radio documentary. We have journalism turned into opera, into a full-on Broadway musical. And we think these are radio dramas like you have never heard before. It's journalism, like we always do, but presented as radio drama. And when they invited our program to perform here today, we wanted to live up to that tradition by trying to invent something new.Īnd so what you're in for today is true stories. Ladies and gentlemen, for decades, the Brooklyn Academy of Music has been a home for all sorts of new kinds of theater and dance and music and opera. Well, from WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life, distributed by Public Radio International. And then the cord of the microphone went under the door of the closet out to her laptop, because her laptop had a fan that made noise.Īnd so she closes the door so it's pitch dark except for the light from her iPad, which had the text of the book that she was supposed to read. And so she looked around for a quiet place, and she went into the closet- put pillows all around to deaden the sound, sat on the floor with a microphone. She was hearing a lot of noise from the street. And she had a deadline on this children's book that she was supposed to be recording, and the hotel room was kind of noisy. The other half she makes recording audio books.Īnd about a year ago, she was staying at a hotel. Carin Gilfry makes about half of her living singing. It's actually about a real opera singer- not a super-famous opera singer or anything like that. And I'm here on an opera house stage with a story that is so small, it almost feels wrong to tell it in a room this grand. A warning to listeners that there is mild cursing throughout this hour, and on the podcast, we're not going to beep that.
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