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Update #10: Most rewards have been sent + FUTURITY DISCOUNT
Hey Friends,
First of all, we have a discount code to come see FUTURITY at American Repertory Theater in Boston (two weeks left!) for all of you East Coasters or New Englanders who haven't seen the show yet or want to see it again! When buying tickets HERE, type in discount code STEAMBRAIN35 at check-out.
Also! Almost all rewards have been sent except:
1. The pet portraits - I am working on them - they take time! Those of you who bought them, however, will be receiving your FUTURITY albums very soon!
2. Anyone who bought just the vinyl (the 25 dollar reward package - there are about 35 of you). We are waiting on our next shipment of albums to arrive, which should be any day, and then we will send them out immediately! Shouldn't be much longer. Thanks for your patience - we are adding some goodies to your reward!
Thanks so much for your continued support!
Sammy and The Lisps
Update #9: Here they come!
Hey All!
Just wanted to let you know that we are hard at work getting everyone's package out today and tomorrow. Thank you all for your patience. We just had our world premiere on Wednesday and have been working hard promoting and performing.
The vinyl and and CDs are beautiful and we just can't wait for you to get them.
There are still tickets available to see the musical, please spread the word and come see us if you are in the Boston area!
Here's the link to but tickets.
Love and thanks:
The Lisps
Here's a picture of our new steam brain!
Update #8: Answering Questions
Hello Backers!
We just want to say hi and let you know that we are currently working our butts off rehearsing Futurity (the musical) at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge Massachusetts. Some people have asked when they should expect to receive the album. We finished the album and are just waiting for it to arrive. WE will be receiving the album in the next few weeks, so YOU should all expect to receive the album sometime around the end of March to mid April. Until then, just know that we are thinking of all of you, and that the album sounds absolutely beautiful, and we could not be more proud. Seriously, you should have seen us listening to the vinyl samples and freaking out at the music library at Harvard. Photographic evidence below. Nerds were laughing at us.
You can check out all the info about the musical at A.R.T HERE. Get tickets! Spread the word! Your rewards are a-coming!
Thank you thank you for your generous support.
xoxo, The Lisps
Update #7: One Last FUTURITY show before we embark
Hello you beautiful backers of FUTURITY, you micro-producers, you generous, generous souls, and a happy new year to you all!
15. Fame and Fortune.
Thanks and see you on Tuesday!
xoxo
The Lisps
Update #6: We did it!!!
Oh my goodness. Thank you all so much. The final tally is 238 backers contributing $10,848. We feel so blessed to have so many of you supporting and rooting us on. We recorded the finishing touches of the album yesterday and are off to mix on sunday.
If you'd like to scope out what you've invested in we are performing all the music from the musical on Friday 12/16/11, 9:30 pm at Joe's Pub in NYC.
Michael Cerveris, Ben Simon, Chelsey Donn, Caroline Tamas, Grant O'Brien, and Jillian Tully will be along for the ride. And let me tell you...the banter will be hilarious.
RSVP/Share on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/events/120950554686692/
Buy tickets in advance here: http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,5889 It may sell out, so buy in advance.
Thanks again for your love and support!!! Everyone of you has helped us so much.
Love, The Lisps (Cesar, Sammy, Eric and Lorenzo)
PS. We will be sending requests for your mailing addresses, jpegs of your pets, etc very soon, standby
PPS: Here are some ridiculous stills from the very first FUTURITY workshop at Zipper Factory in 2009 for your amusement.
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You get a vinyl Lisps sticker, designed and illustrated by Sammy Tunis, singer of the Lisps.
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Receive a CD of FUTURITY the day it comes out.
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FUTURITY CD Autographed by the band. Plus some old awesome futurity postcards.
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Receive a beautiful FUTURITY Vinyl LP AND a digital download of the album the day it comes out.
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Receive a CD of the new FUTURITY album in addition to a copy of our 2 previous CDs "Are We at the Movies" and "Country Doctor Museum."
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Vinyl copy of the FUTURITY LP signed by The Band.
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Vinyl copy of the FUTURITY LP signed by the band, digital download of the album, plus two tickets to the FUTURITY concert at Joe's Pub!
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Vinyl Copy of the LP Signed by the band, Digital Download, copy of the three previous lisps CDs including our rare out-of-print EP "The Vain The Modest and The Dead"
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Vinyl and Digital copy of the album and percussionist Eric Farber will give you a personal tour and demonstration of the mechanical and found percussion he's built for the show over the past 3 years. (Cambridge, MA and Minneapolis, MN)
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You will receive a Vinyl copy of the FUTURITY LP, Digital Download, plus one of Sammy's world famous mix CDs, and we will link your work on the FUTURITY website.
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Vinyl Copy of the LP, Digital Download, plus Sammy will paint a portrait of your pet.
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Vinyl and digital Copy of the Album and Lorenzo will give you a 2 - 4 hour listening tour of the Bruce Springsteen discography. (Lorenzo is an expert on all things BOSS related)
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Vinyl LP, Digital Download, plus Sammy and César will make a YouTube video of a song of your choice (Original or Cover Song)
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Vinyl EP plus Cesar will write and record a personalized song for you. You can give him a topic or not. You will be the only person in the world with a recording of this song.
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Signed copy of Vinyl LP, Micro-Producer credit on the Album. Special mention in the FUTURITY program at American Repertory Theater, and 2 tickets to FUTURITY (in Cambridge, MA or Minneapolis, MN.)
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The Lisps and the cast of FUTURITY will perform the musical in your living room for you and your friends. Plus whatever the hell you want. Just kidding...sort of. Not really. What do you want?
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The Lisps are a New York-based assemblage of 21st century humans. They are most accurately described as the public/performative version of all the relationships you're struggling with.
The Lisps have formed, deformed and reformed over the last 3 years. They are an ever changing body of genius behavior. Like the mythic phoenix rising from the ashes of oblivion The Lisps are endlessly entertaining to themselves and their friends. Sometimes they argue with each other but they almost always agree to disagree and/or validate each others' point of view. The lisps have been on 2 humongous national tours and wowed thousands of Pro-American and Anti-American Americans with their outrageous live performances. They released their debut EP "The Vain, the Modest and the Dead" in 2006, their full-length album, "Country Doctor Museum" in January of 2008 and "Are we at the Movies?" in April 2011. The Lisps are currently working on their original musical "FUTURITY" which is the classic American tale of a Civil War soldier who is an aspiring Science-Ficton writer. "FUTURITY" debuted at the Zipper Factory in January 2009, with subsequent sold-out performances at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, The Rudyard Kipling in Louisville Kentucky, and at HERE Arts. The Lisps will be world premiering "FUTURITY" at American Repertory Theater (A.R.T) in Spring of 2012, followed by a developmental residency at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis.
Sammy is 5' 4"
Cesar is 6' 3/4"
Eric is about 5' 10"
Lorenzo is 5' 9".