Treble Entendre: Dogboy & Justine

[rm]

Hey folks, mithrigil and I have just launched a Kickstarter.com fund raising project in order to bring a workshop production of Dogboy & Justine, a new musical about life, love and head injuries, to the stage.

For those who have been here a long time, you'll know that this project started life as a short play that has had two productions in New York City. With Mith's awesome music and lyrics talent and experience structuring musical theater, we're developing it into a full-length production that includes a diverse, female-focused cast and explores issues of friendship, beauty, sexuality, desire, ability and expectation.

The way Kickstarter works is that we don't get any funding if we don't reach the minimum we need for the project -- you can't execute on half a budget after all. So, not only are we grateful for any contributions you want to make to this project, but also for any signal boosting you can do. Minimum donation amount is a $1, and you're not charged until fund-raising closes on December 21st, and then only if we reach our goal.

Finally, I know many of the donation premiums are very NYC-focused (although you can donate no matter where you are!). I want to let you know that we're working on a way to make an online version available for donors of a certain level, so that we can do a digital talk-back with those who are outside the immediate area as well.

We're looking to get this on the stage in the first half of 2011, and from there tune-up, refine, and bring something bigger and better to NYC via, we hope, a vehicle like NYMF, or a self-managed Off-off Broadway or Off-Broadway production.

We can't do this without you. And we wouldn't want to.

Comments

[lookingaround17.livejournal.com]

I am wandering through people's friends' list and saw this and wanted to comment. First, although I think kickstarter is a good idea, the fact that they only let people donate through that amazon thing made someone almost lose my decent (three-figure) contribution until he got back to me and said I could send it via paypal, which I did. I just wanted to mention that I was not the only one choosing this option, according to the page for the project. Also, huh: head injuries and love life. I got electrocuted a few years back, and resultant brain damage, and MAN, does it change everything in some ways: people with no desire, nothing but desire, no memory of the desire or what happened, not perceiving that it's happening, whatever. That might be an interesting project. Good luck with it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much.

In the first iteration of the play, which was only ten minutes along, I didn't have room to really work with the character who has had the accident experience (or, you know, anyone). This time, thankfully, we're able to give him a whole story, both pre- and post- accident in which he is very much the same person but also changed. I hope we can do it well. So far, I'm nearly sure he gets my favorite song in the whole show (song favorite may change, since they're still being written), and when I do casting, I certainly at least want to look at actors living with disabilities or experiences like this for the role.

And yeah, Amazon. I had to set it all up with them, and I was like "ack, what?!?" as I'm all about the Paypal myself. But I'm glad they have it as a donation option.

[lookingaround17.livejournal.com]

It seems less like "they' have it as a donation option, and more like "the individual folks looking for money let it be somehow discreetly known that they will take money anyway possible, even behind the back of kickstarter", was my feeling about it. If you ever want to chitchat with me about brain injuries or whatever, feel free: I'm hoping to add people to my journal, but am not supersuccessful as of yet, since I hardly ever ask them! ahahaha!

[rm.livejournal.com]

We'll you're welcome around here.

And thank you, I may take you up on it!