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This is the song that made me fall in love with Eric Michael Krop forever. It’s “Bless the Lord” from Godspell, and Krop was singing the shit out of it last Sunday night at 54 Below in Shoshana Feinstein’s Not at This Performance concert.
Remember that time in High School when your boyfriend wrote you a song inspired by a snap you took for your fourth period photography class?
Yeah, well, 35MM: The Musical Exhibition is nothing like that.
Sure, back in 2009, composer Ryan Scott Oliver was inspired by his boyfriend, photographer Matthew Murphy’s work. But instead of writing some sappy drivel about ‘love’ from ‘above,’ Oliver put together an ambitious song-cycle that might as well be sixteen miniature musicals.
What: Terminator Too: Judgment Play, first preview
Where: Santos Party House, a mix of nightclub and dirty rock venue, partly owned by Andrew WK
In Attendance: Writer/Producer/Director Thomas Blake, Composer Peter Sheik, Kacie Sheik, Gavin Creel, Steel Burkhardt, Jay A Johnson, Paris Remillard, Phyre Hawkins, Brandon Pearson.
We caught Jay backstage at 35MM and chatted with him about meeting RSO, starring in the most famous college production of Floyd Collins of all time and, of course, his first Broadway crush.
