Debut Album

Sh-K-Boom Records will release the debut studio album from musical songwriting team Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk, entitled Our First Mistake, on January 18, 2011. To pre-order the album, visit http://sh-k-boom.com/ourfirstmistake.shtml.

Featured on the new disc are Tony nominee Kelli O’Hara (South Pacific, The Light In The Piazza) and recording artist Vienna Teng, plus Broadway favorites Michael Arden (Big River, The Times They Are A Changin’), Matt Doyle (Bye Bye Birdie, Spring Awakening), Meghann Fahy (Next To Normal), Jay Armstrong Johnson (Hair), Morgan Karr (Spring Awakening), Laura Osnes (South Pacific) and Natalie Weiss (Everyday Rapture). The album will also feature tracks performed by recording artists Katie Thompson and The Spring Standards, as well as drum programming by Daniel Imana of The Tryptics.

The track list for “Our First Mistake” is as follows:

1. Say the Word - Vienna Teng
2. Five and a Half Minutes - Katie Thompson
3. Run Away With Me - Michael Arden
4. Not a Love Story - Kelli O’Hara
5. Last Week’s Alcohol - Matt Doyle
6. My Heart Is Split - Laura Osnes, Meghann Fahy
7. How to Return Home - Natalie Weiss
8. Two Strangers - Morgan Karr, Matt Doyle, Jay Armstrong Johnson
9. A Mistake - Kerrigan-Lowdermilk
10. Run Away With Me - The Spring Standards

We’re only choosing TEN fans to become members of this elite group. The Crew will have access to the latest news and upcoming events before anyone else and will be in charge of spreading the word. And thanks to this newfangled interweb, you don’t even have to live in NYC. That’s right, we’re going international with this one!

THE CONTEST

It’s simple. In 75 words or less, tell us what your favorite

K-L song is and what it means to you. This is our way of testing your grammar. Kidding! (Well, Brian is. Kait’s not.) But really, it’s just a chance for us to get to know you better.

K-L Crew Benefits

- Being the first people to know about upcoming events.

- Receiving a fan package with more K-L stuff than you’ll even know what to do with!

- Attending exclusive concert rehearsals

- Live-tweeting opportunities at events or rehearsals

- Being the candid photographer at events or rehearsals.

- Connecting with other K-L fans

The contest officially starts tomorrow: MONDAY, DECEMBER 13th, and will close on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16TH at 12PM. Winners will be announced on FRIDAY DECEMBER 17th!

Post your entries on our Facebook wall by the deadline and you will be eligible to win! We can’t wait to hear what you come up with!

Good Luck!

Get on it here:

http://on.fb.me/h4M3xB

Kerrigan and Lowdermilk are both teaching at Primary Stages’ ESPA this fall. Kait’s teaching two libretto courses (level 1 and advanced) and Brian is teaching a course on composition. You would be a fool not to take these classes because they are going to rock hard. And if you take both their classes, it’s quite possible you could change the face of musical theater as we know it. Just saying.

For more information and to sign up: http://www.primarystages.org/writing

NEW YORK, NY, December 10, 2009 – NewMusicalTheatre.com, the first website ever exclusively devoted to selling sheet music by musical theater writers, launches today. The e-commerce site will start out selling sheet music written by Nick Blaemire (Glory Days), Adam Gwon (Ordinary Days), Joe Iconis (The Black Suits, The Plant that Ate the Dirty Socks, Things to Ruin), Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk (Henry & Mudge, Tales from the Bad Years, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown), Ryan Scott Oliver (Darling, Mrs. Sharp, Rated RSO), Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dogfight, Edges).

This handful of up-and-comers has netted many of the prizes and laurels available to young writers in the theater community. Among them, they’ve won four Jonathan Larson awards, two Ed Kleban awards, two Rodgers awards, one Fred Ebb award, as well as songs featured on television, several off-Broadway and regional productions, and one Broadway production. Many more writers will be added over the coming months.

The goal of NewMusicalTheatre.com is to create a direct connection between people who write music and people who want to perform and listen to it. It provides an affordable and legal one-stop shop for musical theater fans and performers to discover and share the work of self-published writers. Site features include custom songbooks, song ratings, and a search functionality that caters to singers browsing for new audition songs. It aspires to foster a dynamic community where fans and actors can directly connect and impact writers while they’re still struggling to make a living on their music.

Artists Currently Represented on the Site

Ultimately, this will be a place where actors and fans not only find and purchase music, but also a place where people go to browse for new writers, to find lyrics, share their thoughts, and even interact directly with the writers of tomorrow.

“The site’s an extension of what we all do in the real world — support each other’s work.  To have a site that not only gets our music out to people who want to sing it, but helps those people discover other young writers, is amazing.  It’s bursting the doors of the new musical theater community open to the whole world,” says site member Adam Gwon, composer of Ordinary Days. NewMusicalTheatre.com will bring writers, actors, and fans together to share the music in a safe, dynamic - and most importantly - legal way.

The site was created by writers for writers as an alternative to traditional publishing. Most songs have mp3s or video samples. NewMusicalTheatre.com uses new technology to protect writers from having their sheet music illegally downloaded by password protecting the downloaded file with the customer’s credit card number. While protecting the writer, it also allows customers to have more control over their purchase. Rather than having to print their sheet music right away, they can keep the sheet music on their computer for continued access to the file and multiple printings.

When Jeff Marx (co-creator of Avenue Q) previewed the site, he said, “Whoever thought of making your credit card number the password to unlock the downloaded file was an absolute genius.  That changes everything and serves everyone.  This is going to be bigger than porn.”

Libretto 2 – From Treatment to First Draft:
A musical is only as good as its libretto. Any producer will tell you that without a strong story that drives forward from the initial moment of conflict to the final moment of discovery, great songs don’t matter. This second-level course is a continuation of last semester’s Libretto workshop. It is designed for writers who have already developed a treatment for a musical and are prepared to write their first draft. Each week, we’ll workshop writers’ musicals-in-progress as well as look at successful musicals to figure out what make them tick. Topics covered include story and scene structure, thematic resonance, theatrical devices, song placement, and dramatic tension. By the end of the semester, all students will have a first draft (either with songs or ready to shop to composers).
Prerequiste: In order to enroll, you must submit a treatment for the musical that you want to develop by February 1, 2010.

Wednesdays from 10:00am – 1:00pm
Begins Wednesday, February 17
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, April 7, 14, 21

http://www.primarystages.org/playwriting

It’s all happening. For the first time ever, a Kerrigan-Lowdermilk show is being licensed. And if you know Kerrigan and Lowdermilk, you know they like to do it weird do it up and do it web-tastic. So this show is unlike any other show that you’ve licensed. It’s all the material you need to make your own Kerrigan-Lowdermilk show. You choose the set list, you choose the format, you choose the level of awesome.

We make recommends along the way - for example, we recommend a high level of awesome.

1. Tell everyone you know. 2. Tell them to mention you in their application if they apply for a license. 3. We will give you free sheet music and other fantastic prizes.

This is, of course, just the beginning: www.kerrigan-lowdermilk.com/pwc/index.html

You should come because a.) Matt Doyle has a ridiculous perfect voice for this song, b.) for approximately ten minutes during the Gossip Girl season finale, you and everyone you know thought he was Gossip Girl and that blew your mind and c.) “Last Week’s Alcohol” is currently Kait and Brian’s favorite song that they’ve written and it hasn’t been performed in New York yet and things like this only happen for the first time once.

Think on that. Then read the PRESS RELEASE, then make some reservations.

There are only a few spots left!! Click on the following link for more information and to reserve yours in the class: http://primarystages.org/playwriting#libretto

The Primary Stages School of Theater is an interdisciplinary institution where students may hone their skills and develop their careers in a nurturing and collaborative environment. The School provides extensive opportunities for emerging artists, professionals, and life-long learners to collaborate with working professional artists while building strong relationships within the New York theater community.

This is going to be an even better twitter feed because we’ll both update it and therefore it will be updated twice as often. You’ll love it. So follow, please at http://www.twitter.com/kaitandbrian.