Monday, January 27, 2014

trek: a spoof musical beamed into a galaxy far, far away


As far as I know, my headline could be the truth!
Last month, I contacted the creators of the kickstarter project, Accio Actors, to inquire about the reward delivery schedule.
You see, it's been just over two years since I gave financial backing to the production of their musical. I was to receive the soundtrack, the playbook, and a prop from "Trek: A Spoof Musical".
Sadly, none of the items promised had yet materialized.
Today, I received this message from the group.

"12:09 AM, 27 Jan 2014
Accio Actors commented on a link you shared on facebook.
Accio Actors wrote: "Unfortunately due to disagreements with the writers of the show, it has been taken down and is now out of Accio's hands and in the hands of the writer of the musical. We tried our hardest last year but it never was able to resolve. Our apologies and thank you so much for your past support."
"

How very sad that Lauren Field and Gaetano Rodriguez have opted to not fulfill their obligations toward their financial supporters. Shame on them. Actions such as theirs cast dispersions upon honest creators of crowd-sourced projects, making it more difficult for those creations to become realities.
Again I say: Shame on you, Lauren Field and Gaetano Rodriguez.

So, I boldly went in search of whatever did still exist.
Here's what I found!


This is all of the information which would have appeared on the program.
"TREK: An Intergalactic Spoof Musical

An Accio Actors Production

Story by Lauren Field and Gaetano Rodriguez
Script by Lauren Field
Music and Lyrics by Gaetano Rodriguez

Director: Lauren Field
Music Director: Gaetano Rodriguez
Producer: Katie Wilcox
Stage Manager: Emily MacAgy
Choreography: Lindsay Ingram & Anastasia Cobb


Cast:

Kirk: Jeremy Moranski
Scotty: Joe Southall
Bones: Devon Motte
Mr. Spock: Jacob Zdan
Janice: Alicia Carrillo
Uhura: Nina Brooks
Sulu: Justin Gonzalez
Chekov: Rachel Andelman
Andorian General: Tobi Easterman
Red Shirt Bob: Alex Windisch
Red Shirt Ashley: Anastasia Cobb
Flamboyant Red Shirt: Zachary Wilson
Stephanie Butts: Stephanie Pavluk
Richard Richardson: Bernie Marger
Villian/ Chorus: Geoffrey Richardson
Andorian/ Chorus: Chris Kinney
Andorian/ Chorus: Sasa Ilic
Cheerleader/ Chorus: Lindsay Ingram
Cheerleader/ Chorus: Samantha Kendall
Starfleet Officer/ Chorus: Abby Carlen
Alien/ Chorus: Katie Wilcox
Mortimer: Ian Muentener
Eugene: Jonathan Foster

Band:

Guitars: Gaetano Rodriguez
Piano: Nick Hughes
Drums: Mitchell Clark
Bass: Charlie Foti
Violin: Kathryn Hope

Crew:
Emily MacAgy
Janine Field
Todd Kozlowski
Michael Brown
Jeremy Rineheart
"

I even located a bunch of stills from the show! My many thanks to Pedro Carillo Photography for graciously sharing these photos of the actors! Here they are!
If I can ever locate the lyrics of the songs, that will be posted here, too.
Meanwhile, I shall continue to hope the writers will one day live up to their promises.
As for the rest of the cast: Live long and prosper, y'all!

1 comment:

faustina said...

Well, well, well!
While in search of something else, I found...
all of the "Star Trek, the Musical" episodes, courtesy of the youTube channel for GreenSea77 - woop woop!!!
Here are the links for the episodes, in order.
1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohqqWA7oRIo

2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Zb4WCOQiI

3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdeiGui9RoA

4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOk8cDd4SBM

5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Y6TYp_VeA

6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjA_0VBidE8

7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21KLjazE0Yc

8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2PMQPAZ958

9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfTDbcrHaSY