January/2010
lift will have a closed industry reading in NYC in March.

Blackout will have a table reading in NYC in February with a spring staged reading to be scheduled.

November/2009
Director Gary John LaRosa is attached to lift.

October/2009
Director Diana Basmajian has come on board to help us develop Blackout. A reading is in the works.

September/2009
We're selling sheet music online through Lulu.com!

August/2009
Blackout demo recorded in NYC.

July/2009
Work starts on Tie the Knot, a new
musical comedy.

May/2009
New lift demo recorded in NYC.

Blackout third draft finished.

March/2009
POPart staged reading at the
Off-Broadway York Theatre Company.

December/2008
New draft of POPart, including two new
songs .

October-November/2008
POPart fully-staged workshop at
Coastal Carolina University.

Aaron McAllister (composer) and Daryl Lisa Fazio (lyricist/librettist) are an emerging writing team who met in 2006 as new professors at Coastal Carolina University. Within weeks of discovering one was a playwright and the other a composer, they were at work on their first musical, a completely original concept that became the dramatic piece, lift. After that six-month intensive writing process, both were eager for a change of pace and turned to...

Blackout
[4 principles, 4 ensemble]

New York City. July 13, 1977. Four New Yorkers—high, low, charged, broke, strangers, sisters, black, white—navigate a city of swelling temptation and simmering anger, a time of random fires and swinging sex, and streets where soul and disco serenade the down and up. And they harbor a buried dream that there's a light at the end of...

POPart
[8 principles, 4-12 ensemble]

We’re off to see the wizard when 18-year old impressionable and slightly batty Kitty Katz enrolls in art school in this high-octane, irreverent, and campy original musical. Kitty's suburbia-to-ghetto-to-SHoHo story gives us giant canvas glimpses of insanity, inspiration, acceptance...and plenty of that stuff called art.

lift
[8 principles, 8-10 ensemble]

In a small Ohio town, 8-year old Ethan Hale falls through the ice and is miraculously saved. But no one sees the rescue. And no one steps forward as the hero. So when Ethan insists that it was a "birdman," the townspeople embark on a journey into their individual faith and doubt, their collective hope, and what it means to be extraordinary.