Two new musicals by Zina Goldrich and David Javerbaum.
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What a World is a four-person, 90-minute musical revue that uses songs and sketches to paint a hilarious, well-observed, and profound portrait of the fear, anxiety, absurdity, bewilderment, and (once in a while) hope and happiness that is life in America in the year 2024.
Utterly contemporary in subject matter, it deals with such subjects as climate change, COVID, the insurrection, Instagram, gun control, phone addiction, podcasts, and the regret you feel when you sit down for dinner with friends and instantly wish you'd just stayed home comfy in pajamas. What a World! is as relatable and accessible as a modern stage show could possibly be.
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Yay People Yay! is a nine-person, 90-minute musical showing the Broadway debut, of “Yay People Yay!”, a traveling ensemble whose revolving cast of young people travel the world sharing songs, smiles, and the gospel of free-market capitalism. (If you know Up with People!, you get the idea.) Six of YPY’s most talented young stars, joined by two famous performers playing themselves, regale the audience with songs and skits celebrating big oil, corporate banking, gun ownership and SeaWorld. But when news of an environmental catastrophe breaks halfway through the evening, the cast decides to stage a rebellion against their own show... and the awful billionaire in charge of the event. Yay People Yay! goes from the broadest satire to the darkest tragedy, ending on a note of ambivalent hope about the future of humanity.
Bios
Zina Goldrich is an award-winning composer, conductor, musical director, and performing artist. Her romantic comedy and theatre songs have been sung around the world by Broadway stars including Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Megan Hilty, Sierra Boggess and Alan Cumming.
David Javerbaum is a lyricist with an MFA in musical theater composition from NYU. His song credits include four Tony Awards opening songs, the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Cry-Baby, the Broadway show An Act of God starring Jim Parsons and then Sean Hayes, the Off-Broadway musical Suburb, and dozens of songs for TV shows.
Contact
David and Zina are represented by Theater Agent Ally Shuster at CAA.
Ally Shuster
Creative Arts Agency
(212) 277-9000