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Blood and Fire the Musical

Our presentation was cancelled due to the January storm! Will you help us RE-launch the show?

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Blood and Fire the Musical

Blood and Fire the Musical

Blood and Fire the Musical

Blood and Fire the Musical

Blood and Fire the Musical

Our presentation was cancelled due to the January storm! Will you help us RE-launch the show?

Our presentation was cancelled due to the January storm! Will you help us RE-launch the show?

Our presentation was cancelled due to the January storm! Will you help us RE-launch the show?

Our presentation was cancelled due to the January storm! Will you help us RE-launch the show?

David Elliott
David Elliott
David Elliott
David Elliott
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New York, United States
$4,612 USD 50 backers
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Blood and Fire is a New Musical...

Libretto by Jeffrey Couchman, Music by Lisa Heffter.
Music Direction by Vadim Feichtner. Directed by David Elliott. 

Produced by Perry Street Theatricals

Launching a new musical is a tremendous challenge. So when we were given the opportunity to present BLOOD AND FIRE as a Staged Reading in the 2015 TRU Voices Series, we were thrilled. Staged Readings occur throughout the year in NYC as new musicals and plays take their first step in development to becoming fully realized productions. 

It was a perfect start in what we knew would be a huge step forward in the process. And so... the venue was booked -- a beautiful 175-seat concert hall -- the actors were ready -- we had been rehearsing diligently for five days -- and we were all set to take the stage to bring the show before an audience. Our date, however, was January 26th -- which had its own billing as "the snow storm of the century" -- and with NYC totally shut down -- we were forced to cancel the presentation. 

It was impossible to reschedule in the short term as many in the show had other commitments or were going on to other shows. We have rescheduled for March 16, 2015 – that’s good news! But will this require us to go back into the rehearsal room, re-hire the actors (and re-cast some of the roles), and pay the creative fees. Unfortunately, the capital we had was spent for the initial presentation.

Who are the Players?

Perry Street Theatricals is an award-winning producing and general management organization in NYC (pstheatricals.com). TRU (Theatre Resources Unlimited) was created to bring together a supportive network of both established and newly developing producing organizations in the New York area in order to interface these producing organizations with other potentially valuable resources both within and beyond the theatrical community.

Together we will "re-present" this developmental staging of BLOOD AND FIRE... but we need your help to bring this beautiful new work to life.

What Do We Need & What Do You Get?

Mounting a staged reading is the first step in the development process of creating a new show. The funds raised will help to offset the costs of the presentation. 

We are hoping to raise $10,000.

  • Funds will provide compensation for all the artists involved, from actors (we have 13), and stage managers to the writers and director and music director.
  • Scripts, scores and programs need to be reprinted, the rehearsal hall needs to be booked. Creative fees are due. 
  • Certain funds will also be used to offset the losses incurred due to the cancellation and any additional costs that we incur that were unforeseeable at the time of creating the budget.
  • After the presentation, we will cut a BRAND NEW demo recording of 5 or 6 of the songs from the show. Your contribution will help pay for this too!

By contributing to BLOOD AND FIRE, you will be cordially invited to the March 16th staged presentation (we will send you the RSVP details later) – and you can see the show for yourself! Once we finish the demo recording, we will send you either a link to a download of the music or a CD, whichever you prefer. And of course we will keep you up to date on future developments of this exciting project.

Won't you please join us in making this first crucial step?

A Brief Description of the Show 

Its 1892. An irreligious physician from London’s wealthy West End falls in love with a woman of faith from London’s impoverished East End. Meanwhile, a mob of ruffians bands together to destroy a brand new organization called the Salvation Army. The Army’s larger-than-life founder, General William Booth himself, marches across the stage alongside an array of Dickensian characters. Rich, poor, reformers and thugs all collide in a musical tale at once intimate and epic. 

Blood and fire guaranteed...

Don't take our word for it - a few of the songs!

Something Must Be Done


Booth is Coming


Faith


Who's Who - The Creative Team

JEFFREY COUCHMAN (Libretto) has written screenplays for Imagine Films, Warner Bros. TV, and other studios. He has published fiction in many literary journals. Another musical for which he wrote book and lyrics, Battleship Potemkin (music by Eric Allaman), was presented in the York Theatre Company’s Developmental Reading Series (July 2014) and will be produced in Berlin in the upcoming season by Gallisas Theaterverlag. He is author of the book “The Night of the Hunter”: A Biography of a Film and is currently editing three volumes of James Agee’s screenplays for the University of Tennessee Press. He teaches screenwriting at the College of Staten Island.

LISA RALIA HEFFTER (Music) lives in relative obscurity as a prolific composer.  Although her foundation is in the classics as a master’s graduate of The Juilliard School (Heffter’s impressionist quartet “Eschape” premiered at Carnegie Recital Hall and was reviewed by the New York Times as "astonishingly beautiful."), her passion is writing music for great stories. Most recently, Heffter’s rock opera, “Atom & Eve” was staged as a concert reading in October 2014 at the Mary Lea Johnson Performing Arts Center. Rolling Stone Magazine's Betsy Hill reviewed: “I was totally blown away”; Heffter’s one act rock opera “Permission” was directed by John Tedeschi at The Triad for a sold out two week run, and “Oh! The Sport of Love” a bawdy comic operetta for mezzo-soprano, has been performed from intimate parlors to starlit stages worldwide. Heffter is currently collaborating with Jean Witter, librettist, on “Mars: 2076,” a futuristic musical based on the American Revolution of 1776.

VADIM FEICHTNER (Music Director) served as music director/dance arranger for the Broadway production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His Off Broadway credits include: Ordinary Days, Elegies: A Song Cycle, The Burnt Part Boys, The Public Theater's As You Like It and Lincoln Center American Songbook's Songs of Innocence and Experience (both co-composed with William Finn), I Sing!, Infinite Joy, Cam Jansen and V-Day. His regional credits include: Little Miss Sunshine, My Life is a Musical, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, The Memory Show, Party Come Here, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick andSee Rock City. He has worked on concerts for Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Leslie Kritzer and Lisa Howard.

DAVID ELLIOTT (Director) his directing work has been seen at Olney Theatre, The Culture Project, The Irish Repertory Theatre, Metropolitan Playhouse, The Zipper, The Players, New York Performance Works and at Rattlestick’s Exposure Festival. Member SDC.

PERRY STREET THEATRICALS (Producer) My Life is A Musical (Bay Street),Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (B'way, Tony Award), Lend Me A Tenor The Musical (West End, Olivier nom.), Bedlam’s Hamlet/Saint Joan (Culture Project, Off Broadway Alliance Award), an oak tree (Barrow Street, OBIE ), In The Continuum(OBIE), Exits and Entrances (Edinburgh), ShylockTreason (Perry Street Theatre). Credits for Mr. Elliott: The Exonerated (Drama Desk). For Mr. Platt: Here Lies Jenny (Zipper), GumbootsNixon’s Nixon (West End). As General Managers: My Life is A Musical, WikiMusical (NYMF), The Mapmaker’s Opera (NYMF), Ethel Sings(Beckett), Bedlam’s Hamlet/Saint Joan (Lynn Redgrave Theatre) Date of A Lifetime(NJ Rep, and upcoming for Off Broadway '15), White People (Atlantic). Upcoming: In Bed With Roy Cohn (The Lion), Hamlet (Sheen Center), A Craiglist Cantata (Off Broadway), My Name is Rachel Corrie (Lynn Redgrave Theatre).

We thank you in advance!

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