Grammy award -winning musician Joy Hyrta And the writer of the music theater songs Benjamin Velez I did not know each other before they started working together on the result.Real women have curves“But they managed to write a Broadway musician together in record time.
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“Real Women Curves” was opened in Broadway on April 27, a musical adaptation of the Indie 2002 movie and the theater that inspired it Diverse “Stagecraft” said that two of them did not really start to cooperate seriously until late 2020 – which means that in an industry where it is customary for projects to take at least seven years to reach the city center, “Women Real Women” managed to do this in five years.
“He – she He was Very quickly, “Velez (” AZTEC “) agreed on” Stagecraft “. I am working on many other offers of seven, eight or nine years, and we are still not in Broadway. It was just that all concerned were very enthusiastic, and every new draft, we were pushing each other to go quickly. ”
Herta, half of the Mexican pop -bop duo Jesse & Joy, has not written on the stage before, but since then she fell in love with the operation. She said, “It is like a dream that I did not realize that I had.” “It was just one of my favorite experience in my life.”
However, this particular project necessitated securing the epidemic an unusual work operation for the duo – which did not meet personally until they cooperated in the show for a year and a half. Until then, the two only met to enlarge.
It turned out in this case, it was a good thing. “It was useful because Joy plays the guitar and played the piano, and if we were both in the same room, it will be difficult not to laugh every time one of us wants to play with an idea,” said Veles. “To enlarge, we can be concealed ourselves and we can be deceived with different ideas, then recording sound notes and sending them back and forth.”
Huerta added, “As much as we were to enlarge together and serve each other, we kept each other without any sound. We were both melodies on our own. We started exciting, like,“ I have an idea! “I too, I too!” In some songs, I made this process much faster because all of them had such different ideas: Well, perhaps one wonderful idea for the verse and the other idea will be great.
Also in the new episode of “Stagecraft”, Huerta and VELEZ explains how they formulated the individual sounds of each of the show characters and explained the ways that formed their musical and lyrical inspiration by developing the story in general. Along the way, Huerta also revealed that although she will return to a tour with her band now after she opened “Women Real Women”, she wants to remain involved in the theater.
She said, “I take it out in the universe, and I want to continue performing the musical plays in Broadway.” “It was great. I enjoy it a lot.”
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