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Help fund the studio cast recording of Chris Miller & Nathan Tysen’s Off-Broadway song cycle, FUGITIVE SONGS.

Help us fund the recording of Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen’s song cycle, FUGITIVE SONGS!  

Yellow Sound Label has agreed to work with us provided we can fund it.  We're planning on recording late August/early September with an album release in November 2011.

Your support will enable us to orchestrate, rehearse, record, mix, master, design cover art, and duplicate the album so we can get in into your hands and ears!

Your contribution anywhere from $1 on up will be MOST appreciated & helpful!!!

The show was produced off-broadway in 2008, and nominated that year for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue.  

Singers include 

Matt Caplan 

Will Chase 

Joshua Henry 

Karen Olivo 

and Alysha Umphress!

Songs include: Spring Cleaning, Passing Tracy, Annie’s Party, Growing Up, Kansas Highway Sky, The Subway Song, and 13 more!  

MORE INFO at:  www.MILLERandTYSEN.com

Here's what critics have said about FUGITIVE SONGS:

“A powerful yearning weaves through the tunes that make up Fugitive Songs, a song cycle tailored to anyone who has ever thought of shucking his job, his mate or his life to start anew” -VARIETY

“Fugitive Songs is a fluid, artfully directed (Joe Calarco) song cycle that centers on the theme of flight: specifically, running away … from home, from lovers, from troubles, from whatever. The show, therefore, has a picaresque quality akin to a modern musical rendition of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Both the theme and your introduction to these songwriters begins with a thrilling opening number called “Reasons to Run” that builds both emotionally and musically as all five members of the cast eventually sing it in gorgeously orchestrated vocal harmonies.” -TALKIN' BROADWAY - THE SIEGEL COLUMN

“The show is an excellent showcase for the five golden-voiced actors who bring its songs to life. But the real stars of Fugitive Songs are Miller and Tysen, who have created a tuneful, genuinely evocative score. Miller’s music features soaring harmonies with elements of folk rock, bluegrass and old-fashioned theatre music, and is backed up by a piano and terrific four-piece band. Tysen’s lyrics have moments of real wit (“I found drinking/No, drinking found me”) and usually walk the line between rock and theatre with ease.” -CURTAIN UP

“The folk-rock song cycle Fugitive Songs brilliantly infuses singer-songwriter cool with theatrical earnestness… cast members’ voices filling the theatre with prisms of five-part harmony.” -BACKSTAGE

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    Autographed Limited Edition Mini Showcard

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    97 backers

    Showcard + High Quality Digital Download of the Fugitive Songs Album

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    All of the above + Limited Edition signed copy of the Fugitive Songs CD.

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    All of the above + Your Name listed as a Backer in the Album Liner Notes

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    All of the above + The Burnt Part Boys Original Cast Album

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    All of the above + Fugitive Songs Album Karaoke Tracks

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    All of the above + 2 VIP Tickets to CD Release Concert

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    All of the above + an mp3 of Miller belting out "Send in the Clowns" when he was 10 years old. (This is almost priceless)

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    All of the above + hand written original manuscript of "Growing Up", the 1st song Miller & Tysen ever wrote together.

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    All of the above + a private concert with Miller & Tysen and Friends! (Tri-state area only)

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    All of the above + Miller & Tysen will either take you out to Dinner or make it for you-- your choice!