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CAMP WANATACHI fans: the next installment is right around the corner — and this time we’re going Off-Broadway! We are thrilled to do our first Off-Broadway run at the incredible La Mama ETC in 2011! Many of you have been contacting us asking for the exact dates so that you can make flight arrangements. We will be presenting a 2 week run of CAMP WANATACHI in late January/early February. However, the exact date of our opening night has yet to be finalized. Hold tight — we will have details up as soon as possible!
Announcing: CAMP WANATACHI at La MaMa ETC in January 2011!
CAMP WANATACHI is going Off-Broadway!
We are thrilled about our upcoming run at La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in January. Honored with over thirty Obie Awards and dozens of Drama Desk and Villager Awards, La MaMa has an incredible roster of theater, movie and multi-media luminaries for whom La MaMa was an early artistic home. In fact, Blue Man Group, co-founded by our producer Ian Pai, began at La MaMa ETC!
CAMP WANATACHI GALLERY SHOW opens at Ramiken Crucible Gallery Thursday August 19th →
August 19th - September 6th, CAMP WANATACHI creator Natalie Weiss will be artist in residence at Ramiken Crucible Gallery. She is moving her home studio into the gallery, where she will prepare for CAMP WANATACHI’s Off-Broadway run.
Natalie has curated a group show full of art that summons CAMP WANATACHI — a chapel, tents, SP 404’s + synthesizers, stories of girls who had lesbian experiences at summer camp, projections of nature, huge angel wings and more. This gallery show, a fine art extension of CAMP WANATACHI, is called Jesus In Our Lives.
Featuring art by Bridget Regan, Jeremy Earhart, Tom Sawyer, Lauren Bahr, Natalie Elizabeth Weiss, Wheat Wurtzburger and Our Community.
RAMIKEN CRUCIBLE GALLERY IS ON EAST BROADWAY AND CLINTON IN THE LOWER EAST SIDE. ENTRANCE IS A LARGE BLACK BOX.
THURSDAY AUGUST 19th, 2010
Jesus In Our Lives: Opening Party!!
7-10pm, performances at 8pm sharp
CW COMPOSERS THROW DANCE PARTY SATURDAY JUNE 26th!
CAMP WANATACHI creator Natalie Elizabeth Weiss (aka Unicornicopia)
and beat maker Travis Stewart (aka Machinedrum) throw the sick dance party CASSETTE NYC!
Machinedrum’s new love-step project SEPALCURE is playing! Natalie is hosting! That means dancing with you!
· Saturday June 26
· Public Assembly 70 North 6th St. Brooklyn, NY 11211
· 10PM - 4AM
· Only $5 if you RSVP to RSVP@CassetteNYC.com
· $10 @ Door
WWTPD (What Would T-PAIN do?)
CAMP WANATACHI vocodes and auto-tunes the voices of Broadway stars in new musical!
Something has happened since Carolyn Mignini’s days in the original Broadway productions of Fiddler on the Roof and Tintypes — her voice sounds a lot more like T-Pain.
CAMP WANATACHI, a new musical about two 13 year old girls who fall in love at Christian summer camp, is turning musical theater on its head with its dynamic new utilization of thick beats and pop music technology. Long seen as sworn enemies, musical theater nerds and hip hop heads can now come together on June 3rd and June 4th when an abridged version of CAMP WANATACHI is performed at 3 Legged Dog Art + Technology Center.
Ms. Mignini isn’t the only Broadway star to get the vocoder treatment. Alice Lee, who stared in the Tony Award winning Broadway cult sensation Spring Awakening, has also joined the CAMP WANATACHI cast. The unique blend electronically processed vocals with unaffected “musical theater” singing hits just the right note when atop of CAMP WANATACHI’s signature electro-funk and lush orchestral arrangements.
Music Directed and arranged by up and coming new classical music composer Conrad Winslow, a Julliard grad student currently under the tutelage of Academy Award winning composer John Corigliano, Mr. Winslow has merged his penchant for “harmonic thorniness and rhythmic vitality” (New York Times) with his love for electronic dance music in his compositions for CAMP WANATACHI. Also acting as conductor and a live DJ, Mr. Winslow’s arrangements for his 7 piece orchestral ensemble hearken the undulating repetition of Phillip Glass, the glitchy specificity of Alarm Will Sound and the electronic/emotional consciousness of Nico Muhly.
Written and composed by indie rocker Natalie Weiss of Unicornicopia and featuring beats by hip hop producer Machinedrum, CAMP WANATACHI began as an experimental DJ set/monologue cycle performed by enthusiast hipsters alongside of noise bands in Williamsburg basements. As the project developed, it began to share bills with established artists such as Dave Longstreth of Dirty Projectors.
Now, under the direction of Matt Cowart (Co-Producer/Associate Director of Sondheim: the birthday concert with the New York Philharmonic), CAMP WANATACHI has transformed into a vibrant, boundary breaking piece of musical theater that is sure to become a Broadway hit.
CAMP WANATACHI Concerts at Three Legged Dog Art + Technology Center:
80 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10006
Two nights only!
Thursday, June 3rd 8:00pm (followed by VIP Reception)
Friday, June 4th 8:00pm (followed by CASSETTE NYC After Party.)
Tickets: $15 (includes admission to CASSETTE NYC After Party on June 4th.)
Tickets for June 3rd concert and VIP reception: $25
