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Coaching and Consulting
Brian is available for private vocal coaching and audition prep and Kait is available for script consultation. The hourly rate for each is $80/hr. For a vocal coaching or script consultation with Brian and Kait together - $150/hr. To make an appointment, send an email with your contact information to THIS ADDRESS.
Original Songs
Kerrigan and Lowdermilk have written custom songs for debut albums, birthdays and anniversaries, weddings, and arts organizations. Each song is developed specifically for the artist, person, or group in mind. The song can be commissioned as an original Kerrigan-Lowdermilk tune or Kerrigan-Lowdermilk can work with the artist or a group of people to help them create a song. Price on request. Please contact THIS ADDRESS.
House Concerts
Have Kerrigan and Lowdermilk entertain at your next house party. Whether it is a birthday, an anniversary or just a small gathering of musical theater lovers, K-L will provide a variety of original songs and covers to accompany the event. From children’s songs (from their musical Henry and Mudge) to contemporary pop, Kerrigan and Lowdermilk will provide the music for a relaxed and intimate atmosphere. Priced on request, please send an email with details (include size of party, location/transportation, and set length) to THIS ADDRESS.
Master Classes
Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk have taught master classes in song interpretation and musical theater writing all over the country. Some of their favorite engagements include CAP21, Northwestern, Perry-Mansfield New Noises Studio, Boston Conservatory, Pace University, and Young People’s Theatre Workshop where they first developed their methodology for the “How to Write a Musical” workshop. They currently write and teach in New York City. Kait teaches Libretto workshops at Primary Stages, and Brian vocal coaches at CAP21.
Song Interpretation
Every song tells a story and it’s the actor’s job to convey that story through words and music. This intensive master class examines the key to effective song interpretation. Together you will breakdown music and lyrics into their component parts, learn about how they affect each other, and discover all of the tools that a song’s author put in the song specifically for you to use. The techniques you’ll learn work with any kind of song – from old standards to contemporary musical theater to pop songs. All the information for a successful performance is right there in the sheet music.
How to Write a Musical
Students learn the writing process first-hand through the creation of their own musical. These workshops require students to expand creativity, brainstorm, work within specified guidelines and structures, while developing collaboration skills that will change the way they look at the classroom. No matter what a student’s discipline, this is an invaluable life skill. Additionally, through writing musical theater, students explore musical genres, literary devices, poetry, storytelling, as well character development and motivation. No other genre represents such a cross-section of literature and music. READ AN EXCERPT of The Captain and the Crab, written by students from the Young People’s Theatre Workshop in the summer of 2008.
Longer Engagements
Kerrigan and Lowdermilk are entertaining offers for semester-long or year-long guest artist engagements at colleges with strong musical theater programs. Ideally, an engagement would include teaching and a workshop of a one of their musicals in development.
Testimonials
“Working with Lowdermilk and Kerrigan revivified my passion for musicals… it’s a privilege to be in the room with Brian’s soaring musicality and deliciously wicked wit and Kait’s superb character work, razor sharp directorial skills, and incisive wordplay.” – Alison Fraser (The Secret Garden, Gypsy)
“Brian and Kait are the kind of writers who will keep the musical theatre art form moving forward. They are inventive and funny and intelligent. I love everything about them except that they are five years younger than me.” – Celia Keenan-Bolger (Spelling Bee, Les Miserables)
“Brian and Kait are two of my favorite people to work with. They have a sensibility, both individually and together, that it’s rare to find even in people twice their age…there is absolutely no good reason not to run to them and get them to teach you what they know.” – Kate Shindle (Legally Blonde)
3 Responses to HIRE US
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Amanda says:
I want so much to know the lyrics of Holding On – Tales from the Bad Years, but I can’t find itanywhere! Do you know where I can find it? I really need it! Thank you!
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Cherryfrogs says:
I ADORE “Not A Love Song” and would love to use it as an audition song; perhaps in a recital sometime, even, and I know it’s on mewmusicaltheater.com, but the problem is they have it in several different keys, but they don’t tell you which is which! The version Kelli O’Hara sings is in C, and a friend of mine has it a whole step lower, but that is not AT ALL helpful to me because of my voice type, so I was wondering if anyone can tell me if C is the original key? That way I’ll know which version to buy. Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but the site wouldn’t allow me to register to post in the forums.
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