June/2010
ANNOUNCEMENT: POPart: The Musical is an official jury selection of the
New York Musical Theatre Festival 2010!

April/2010
Both POPart: The Musical and lift are selected as FINALISTS in the New York Musical Theatre Festival Next Link Project. Official selections announced the week of June 1!

March/2010
lift was performed in a closed industry reading in NYC on the 19th. Gary John LaRosa directed.

February/2010
Blackout had a table reading in NYC in February led by director Diana Basmajian.

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.

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.