Lunch producer Joe DeFeo and writer Shawn Northrip came together to discuss their 30 Days of NYMF blog. The following is a transcript of their conversation.
Joe: You're fired!
(swings from a tumbler of Scotch)
Shawn: Have another drink, Boozy McBoozalot!
Joe: You're the one who fell down at the the NYMF Opening Night Party!
FIN!
Shawn: Okay, now let's get serious.
So, as we write this blog, it is less than 24 hours from our opening. Joe is both a little nervous and excited. Shawn is exhausted. And Bonnie is waiting for them to finish writing their blog, which is due 3 days prior to it's publishing. They rest on their laurels confident that they still have fifty-one minutes left to complete their homework assignment. It is just like college, when they first met and collaborated late into many a night, deep within the bowels on the Hartke Theatre complex, creating theatre projects that would barely earn them passing grades. As they toiled away amongst the cockroaches and rats as big as Chevy Cavaliers, neither of them could have foreseen their future putting on a real production like this incarnation of
Lunch. While this is not their first collaboration, they are hoping this is the first to not end in tears or financial ruin for the theatre. They are confident to say it is possibly less likely this time. Due to the efforts of a brilliant cast and crew headed up by director Shirley Serotsky it can certainly be said
Lunch is a show in the New York Musical Festival.
Shawn recently ran into Bill Finn on the subway, who pretended to have a vague memory of Shawn from NYU. The two chatted and Bill said were he not leaving town he might be interested in seeing the show. If it's good enough for Bill Finn to consider, perhaps you might be interested in considering seeing it too.
And now about the show:
Lunch is a pop rock musical developed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. It stands out amonst Shawn's catalogue of plays as his only show in which no one dies.
Lunch is the story of a cafetorium and the students who inhabit it during their last week of eighth grade; each of them dealing with their awkward stages all in their own way and singing cool songs about it.
All kidding aside, Joe and Shawn are proud of the efforts of all involved and to present the NYMF production of
Lunch, a musical about love in the eighth grade.
Love,
Joe and Shawn
P.S. See you at
Lunch!P.P.S. Do you like me? Circle one: YES NO
P.P.P.S. We still have three minutes left. We could write more.
Visit www.nymf.org for tickets and more information.
