Documentary Now: Original Cast Album - CO-OP

And yes, a cast recording is being released as well on vinyl.  I'm sure it'll also be available on all digital platforms.  





Notes

Vocals: Alex Brightman, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Richard Kind, Paula Pell, Merideth Kaye Clark, Jesse Cromer, Alec Cameron Lugo, Bobbi MacKenzie, Norman Wilson, Leah Yorkston

Music by Eli Bolin
Lyrics by John Mulaney & Seth Meyers
Orchestrations by Mike Pettry

Recorded at The Relic Room, NYC
Recording and Mixing: Dave's Room, North Hollywood
Mastering: Bernie Grundman Mastering, Los Angeles
Mix Engineers: John Chamberlin, David Spreng

From the team that brought you Has Anyone Ever Told You You'd Look Better as a Brunette?, comes Co-op, the ill-fated Broadway show that opened and closed on the same night amid disastrous reviews.

Written by Simon Sawyer and directed by Howard Pine, the musical comedy centers around a cast of characters who all work, live or want to live in the same co-op, including Robbie the Doorman, Donna, the mistress of a tenant , Danny, the single guy just trying to get through the holidays, and Annie the tennis coach who dreams of living in the building.







 

 

ljay889 said: "Is it the Sondheim songs?"

In the latest EW, Mulaney said he selected Sondheim songs, wrote new lyrics for them, and then sent his lyrics to a composer who wrote new music for them.

Not finding a link to this article online.

Richard Kind performed a number live on Seth Meyers tonight and it is hilarious, next-level satire, a scrumptious, nutritious orange compared to a perfectly good Gerard Alessandrini parody apple. As Vulture once said before you had to pay for their articles, Documentary Now! exists to make "small groups of people extremely excited."

So many cigarettes. Mulaney has got Sondheim down. The real Sondheim makes the exact gesture on the cover of the CO-OP album when he's coaching Dean Jones on "Being Alive" in the control room. Brilliant. 

It'll probably only appeal to about 5,000 people in the country (I think a lot of younger theatre fans-- by younger I mean tweens and teens will be absolutely clueless watching it), but that's the brilliance of this series. 

I saw BATSH*T VALLEY online last weekend, and it was brilliant. Though it'll be hard to top Bill Hader as the Robert Evans-esque producer obsessed with winning an Oscar. 

I'm the leader of the false rhyme police, but I've been more lenient about it in parody because... it's parody. This is supposed to be a show that closed on opening night, right? 

But it would have been nice. However, I'll save my irritation about poor craftsmanship for the score of COME FROM AWAY, etc.