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“TheatreworksUSA’s latest production is full
of luxurious romps in the grass, tender caresses and big, wet kisses…Kait
Kerrigan, who wrote the show’s book and the lyrics for Brian Lowdermilk’s
ebullient score, provides very funny monologues of Mudge’s thoughts and
offers a wry take on a dog’s perspective.” “TheatreworksUSA has done it again. They have produced
a five character musical for children and their parents that is thoroughly entertaining,
spiritedly acted and well sung, lively, funny and short. Henry and Mudge – an adorable story about a boy and his dog and his cousin - with a quick
witted book and smart lyrics by Kait Kerrigan and peppy, jazzy music by Brian
Lowdermilk is lots of fun.” “Kait Kerrigan’s forthright book pulls no
punches when it comes to children’s (and dogs’) feelings, and the
songs (by Kerrigan and the composer Brian Lowdermilk) transport the audience
still deeper into Henry’s childhood world: a sweet, slightly uncertain
place, with a scary forest just beyond the picket fence.” “Any opportunity to see a Kerrigan-Lowdermilk musical
is worth savoring. Perhaps the most important young writers in musical theatre
today, they have a gift for connection and emotional insight not matched by
many of their colleagues, and it manifests itself as completely in Henry
and Mudge as in their adult shows; the depth of the relationship that develops
between boy and dog in merely an hour is remarkable, and if you're moved to
tears by their realizing their feelings for each other - well, you're not alone.”
"Sometimes, a musical comes along that announces
itself from its first few notes as something very, very special... Overtones
are being created, individual threads of music are weaving together to form
a tapestry of emotion and sense of place that overcomes you like a wave crashing
against the rocks. The sound is New York, and it's as familiar as the constant
rush of the sound of the streets, but simultaneously invigorating and musically
new." “Jot down the name Brian Lowdermilk, the composer-lyricist
who has written the astonishing score for The Woman Upstairs. Incorporating
additional lyrics by director-librettist Kait Kerrigan, Lowdermilk has tossed
out a cornucopia of melodies and counter-melodies that rocket him upward on
the list of people who are pointing to exciting new directions for the book
musical.” "This week's New York Musical Theater Festival seems
like an open audition for an heir to the astoundingly successful Rent.
The sweet music of Brian Lowdermilk's The Woman Upstairs -- a tale
of antagonistic Greenwich Village neighbors who find romance in close quarters
-- has a decidedly 'Seasons of Love' quality." "Still waiting for wide recognition is the season's
best musical, which almost no one saw. The Woman Upstairs...is the
type of brilliant show that, on paper, seems ridiculous: the anti-romantic,
barely plotted posturings of a music-hating physicist and the blind violinist
who lives in the apartment below. How could such a show possibly work? In most
writers' hands, it couldn't. But the two writers hit upon the only way to make
a story like this play: Set it against the ever-bustling backdrop of New York
City."
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