About this project

The Album is a theatrical experiment that combines music, storytelling and comedy to create a show that is as funny as the music is good and vice versa.

The show is not an hour of funny songs, nor is it a night at the coffee shop, but a series of one person comedic monologues that come packaged as songs from popular musical genres ranging from the jazz standard to the showtune to the hip hop dance floor chart topper.

Each piece will embody a genre of music and explore an idea appropriate to that genre, for example, a guitar plucked Sarah McLaughlin lament about my relationships with women, or a hip hop song about every white person's desire to have a black best friend.

The salsa of the show will be everything from race to politics to sex to bad behavior and everything inbetween, and the chips will be the music it is served up with.

So where does the money come in?

Creatively one of the main objectives of the show is to create an hour of comedy with real theatricality and production value. I intend to work with accomplished musicians and producers to create the music for the show, choreographers and dancers to color in the styles, and incorporate technical elements to heighten each genre vocally and visually. All of these things will work together to have me looking and sounding like Billie Holiday one minute and Lady Gaga the next. Well, the "under a million dollars" version of that.

The goal is to have people leave feeling like they just saw an amazing concert, a piece of theater they could relate to, and laughed their asses off at the same time.

Last year I used Kickstarter for the first time to raise money to produce a music video for the "It gets better" project. The video was a huge success racking up over 300,000 views and becoming the official Anthem of the "It gets better" campaign. I was able to work with an amazing director, an incredible crew, talented dancers and actors and an amazing music producer. That project inspired me to continue collaborating with talented artists and continue exploring how comedy and music can work together to create powerful satire. 

Here is the video I made last year with the help of a lot of amazing people, and my Kickstarter backers!