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STAGE TUBE: N'Kenge and Seph Stanek Star in AKHENATEN: THE MUSICAL Music Videos

By: Jun. 03, 2015
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Music videos of AKHENATEN: THE MUSICAL, starring N'Kenge and Seph Stanek, are now online after the launch party at New York's historic The Players Club. Click below to watch "O My Son" and "Dark Future"!
History-rich Players Club on Gramercy Park was the perfect setting for the launch of the music videos of Broadway-bound Akhenaten the Musical, which has its roots 3,000 years ago when the Heretic Pharaoh was ruling Ancient Egypt. Investors and friends of the musical met some of the producers, actors and creative team of Akhenaten the Musical at the private social club founded in 1888 by Edwin Booth for the screening of both videos.
Both videos are directed by Hisham Abdel Khalek with cinematography by Lukasz Pruchnik, make-up by Joe Dulude II, edited by Elliot Storey and produced by Olivier Delesse and Saad Bin Mohammed.
"O my Son" features N'Kenge and her baby daughter Jahzara Martina Pacurar, Actors Jason Vendryes, Stephanie Jill Chernick (Miss New York United States 2013) with make-up by Brandalyn Fulton, hair by Dre Brown and stylist Andrew Clay. The music video is a modern adaptation of the song from the musical where Queen Ti (N'Kenge) gets increasingly concerned about the decisions of her cherished son Akhenaten who seems to get totally lost in his obsession with the God Aten. The video, shot in Manhattan and New Jersey, shows a mother worried for her son and his bad marital decisions.
"Dark future" features Seph Stanek and Joe Dulude II with dancers Andres Acosta, Daniel Lynn Evans and Christopher Trepinski with choreography by Alessandro Pellicani and costumes designed by Carmen Marc Valvo. While in the musical the song features the Scribe, concerned about the direction his country is heading under the rule of an increasingly uncontrollable Akhenaten the pharaoh, the music video shows him in today's world concerned with the wars and destructions of the past century.
The musical tells the story of the pharaoh AKHENATEN and of his wife NEFERTITI. It centers on how AKHENATEN challenged the almighty power of the priests of Ancient Egypt by imposing a single god over their many gods, creating the first monotheist religion ever. However, this historical move will unleash an epic struggle for power to restore the old gods and to replace AKHENATEN with his son TUTANKHAMUN as the leader of Egypt. Akhenaten the Musical is created and directed by Hisham Abdel Khalek, with a book by Hisham Abdel Khalek and Mohamed Metwally (Lyrics) and music by Hesham Nazih.
For more information about the musical, go to www.akhenatenthemusical.com.






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