Baz & Me a New Musical

by Nate Sloan, Andrew Hertz and Lowry Marshall

Directed by Lowry Marshall

Assistant Director: Ellie Sywak

2010 Season Image

July 21, 22, 23, 24, and 28 at 8:00 PM, July 31 at 8:00 PM

After a study abroad year, self-styled ‘neo-Nihilists’ Baz and Ari are home in Manhattan and ready for some no-strings partying. But more has changed than the traffic pattern in Times Square! A love bug is going around, and even these ironic ‘players’ may not be immune. Unforgettable characters and melodies you’ll walk out humming make Baz and Me a musical the whole family will fall for. Inspired by Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons.

Cast

Baz…………………………………………………………………..Julian Cihi
Ari………………………………………………………………….Ricky Oliver
Anna……………………………………………………………….Leah Cogan
Kat……………………………………………………………..Caroline Kaplan
Rina…………………………………………………………….Mary C. Davis
Nick……………………………………………………………….Mark Cohen
Fed………………………………………………………………….Per Janson

Orchestration and Vocal Musical Directors….Nate Sloan & Andrew Hertz

Band Musical Director……………………………………….David Brown
Band Musical Director……………………………………….Megan Tracy

Act One

New Beginnings………………………………Company
The Scrabble Song……………………….Ricky Oliver
Two More Days…………………………………… Rina
Maybe Tonight……………………Ari, Baz, Anna, Kat
He’s Hard to Like and I Like It…………………..Anna
She is Not the Rain…………………………………Baz
Google’m…………………………………….. Kat, Anna
Where’s My Boy………………………………..Rina, Nick
Slam! Slam! Slam! Slam! Slam!………………..Company

Act Two

Tantrum……………………………………………………………………………Baz
Where’s My Boy (reprise)……………………………………………………… Rina
Let Me Catch My Breath……………………………………………………Ari, Kat
It Is What It Is…………………………………………………………………… Anna
Our New Haven………………………………………………….Nick, Fed, Ari, Kat
We’ll Travel Light…………………………………………………………..Anna, Baz
Fathers and Sons………………………………………………………………… Kat
It Is You…………………………………………………………………….. Nick, Fed
Finale …………………………………………………………………………Company

The Band
Conductor/Keyboards………………………………………………….David Brown
Guitars………………………………………………………………………Tom Norton
Bass………………………………………………………………………. Growchowski
Percussion……………………………………………………………..Charles Kalajian

Nate Sloan (Playwright). Nate is a composer and musicologist. His musical Leavittsburg, OH directed by Lowry Marshall and musically directed by Andrew Hertz, was produced at Brown University in 2009. He holds a BA from Brown and is pursuing a Ph.D in Historical Musicology at Stanford University.

Andrew Hertz (Playwright) is a composer, lyricisy, and musical director originally from New York. His latest compositions include: Torah! Torah! Torah! (which premiered at Playwrights Rep), Flipside (Frederick Loewe Award), Burbach/Lupone! (Ars Nova), and The Apple Sisters Variety Show (NYIT Award: Best Original Musical/ECNY Award: Best Musical Comedy Act). He has music directed and worked with such personalities as Ben Vereen, Elaine Strich, Jerry ORbach, John Lloyd Young, Jason Alexander, Chevy Chase, Kate Burton, and James Lapine. Andrew holds an MFA in musical theatre writing from the TIsch School of the Arts at NYU and a BA in music from Brown University, where he currently serves as adjunct professor. (Andy would like to dedicate this show to the late Dr. Lawrence Sheff whose passion for the arts and humanity was incomporable).