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Review: Rachel Covey Does It All in ONE WRONG TURN: THE MUSIC OF RACHEL COVEY AT 54 BELOW
An Evening at 54 Below!
NOISE Receives an Honorable Mention for the American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Musical Award!

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feeling spontaneous?!! 🥖Here’s @clairekwon_ s

feeling spontaneous?!! 🥖Here’s @clairekwon_ singing “Spontanée” from WHERE WE ARE at @54below!

(AKA further proof that Claire can do anything, including making a wacky song completely her own and healing all my wounds) (also I would die for her)

ft. the brilliant @jeremyjacobs24 on the keys !!!!!

So excited I can start to share these! Here’s

So excited I can start to share these!

Here’s “Bartholomew” from WHERE WE ARE (music & lyrics by Rachel Covey) performed by @sarahdaceycharles at @54below ! The song is inspired by a map collected by the Hand Drawn Map Association 🗺️

(imagine getting to see your favorite actor in concert! now imagine they’re performing material you wrote specifically for them! who could judge you for getting a little verklempt???)

🎥 @james.t.murray

late to the gram, but I’m absolutely beside myse

late to the gram, but I’m absolutely beside myself reading this review. My heart is STUFFED with gratitude for the brilliant people who brought my work to life at @54below, and for the friends and family who make this journey less lonely/bizarre. ❤️

@clairekwon_ @sarahdaceycharles @broadwaylatinbear @stefanyourface @_hannahhakim @jeremyjacobs24 @vaibumohan I will personally harm your enemies 🙏

Portraits of a brilliant cast and a very grateful

Portraits of a brilliant cast and a very grateful composer❤️

I can’t begin to thank these unbelievable performers, my favorite MD of all time @jeremyjacobs24, and the FORCE that is @vaibumohan for making a lifelong dream of mine come true.

📸 @fulloflife97 (only Vivienne could capture such stunning, private moments of the cast, plus this absolutely unhinged one of me)

Geeking out and incredibly grateful to be presenti

Geeking out and incredibly grateful to be presenting a night of my music at 54 Below on April 21st, performed by this group of absolute LEGENDS!!! Come through for an evening of neurotic songs sung by brilliant people🥹

!!!!! help me name this song !!!!! the heartbreaki

!!!!! help me name this song !!!!!
the heartbreakingly, hilariously brilliant @stefanyourface tried out a new song of mine at @donttellmamanewyorkcity, and I still don't know what to name it! any suggestions would be infinitely appreciated ❤️

ty @tdc.nyc / the comeback cabaret for the beautiful footage!

I loved chatting with the @womenandtheatreproject

I loved chatting with the @womenandtheatreproject about inclusivity in theatre, the projects I’m working on, and the ladies who inspire me. I’m so grateful this podcast exists!

@hayleygoldenberg @sparkofamy ty so much for having me, and for creating such an important project 🥰

I’m still pinching myself. Biiig thanks to this

I’m still pinching myself. Biiig thanks to this incredible team for bringing NOISE to life❤️

📸 @sparkledeath_syra

If you told this toddler that, in about 20 years,

If you told this toddler that, in about 20 years, she’d get into the BMI Workshop, she wouldn’t know what you were saying (because she’s a toddler). But if you told the very nerdy theatre kid she’d become ~10 years later, she’d freak out!!!

@bmi_mt_workshop has been a dream of mine for ages, and I was humbled to dive in this week. As my mom says, “put it on instagram or you’re depriving your mother of nachas.”

Grateful for: first reads, design presentations, i

Grateful for: first reads, design presentations, illicit prod meetings, the most beautiful rehearsal space I’ve ever stepped foot in (ty @dgfound !!!), and this ridiculously, ridiculously talented team.
Just wow🥺

Exactly one month until NOISE opens at @thetanknyc

Exactly one month until NOISE opens at @thetanknyc !!! I’m so humbled by the talent of this team, and so excited to see this thing on its feet for the first time ever 🥺🙏

tickets at tinyurl.com/noise2022 !!

I’m just saying the powerpuff girls would be all

I’m just saying the powerpuff girls would be all over this 💅💃

@womenofthewings is sharing a few of my songs in a lineup of work by female+ composers and I’m SHIVERING FROM THE GIRL POWER!!! Come hear these talented people sing on 9/30 at 54 Below!

songs on a roof >>> Thank you @andrewjmullins and

songs on a roof >>>

Thank you @andrewjmullins and john for having me, and @stefanyourface & @lizziekoenn for absolutely crushing it ❤️

PS swipe to the end to see Lizzie acting her heart out while I’m 100% dead in the eyes but i promise internally swooning !!

I’m pretty sure Irving Berlin also stood in fron

I’m pretty sure Irving Berlin also stood in front of grey walls and soft smiled?

WOOHOO! In the spirit of ✨works in progress✨,

WOOHOO! In the spirit of ✨works in progress✨, I’m so excited to share a very new tune in this lineup of new composers at 54 Below later this month! Catch me willingly paying $16 for sangria and basking in the wonder of new work!

Thanks so much for having me, @mollyabigail1 and @vaibumohan, and for lending me your talents, @grobanzobean66 and @kathlynn_rodin !!

Still reeling from the chance to see these incredi

Still reeling from the chance to see these incredible people being NOISE to life.

Although part of me wants to hoard them all for myself, please indulge me in hyping up this unbelievable team, because every writer I know would be beyond blessed to work with these folks. THEATRE FRIENDS: HIRE THESE PEOPLE!!!! (CONTINUED IN THE COMMENTS!)

@jslaght (director extraordinaire) will see straight through to the core of your work and summon that core to the surface, will translate your blubbering into actionable direction, and will make sure you’re heard through every second of the process.

@jeremyjacobs24 (prolific MD) will figure out exactly what you intended (but incorrectly transcribed) for every inch of your score, will bring what I can only describe as a level of musical dramaturgy to your piece which will challenge and expand it, will support each actor as if he’s known them forever, and will play your score brilliantly.

@sarahdaceycharles will elevate every piece of material she touches, will learn three versions of your show’s ending and will add invaluable insight into each one, will add warmth to what’s clinical, will add depth to what’s flat, and will breathe so much genuine, complicated life into a character that you forget she doesn’t actually have a PHD herself.

@stefanyourface will dig so far into your piece that he knows it better than you do, will make the simplest moments gut wrenching and the most convoluted moments human, will sing so effortlessly beautifully that the fact that you don’t know how to write for tenors will be completely irrelevant, and if you’re lucky, will be your best friend, partner, and the person you want to go on every adventure with.

@_hannahhakim I’m pretty sure cannot tell a goddamn lie. She will bring endless honesty, clarity, and HEART to every word she speaks and every note she sings, will take direction like “can you be more ghostly” as if that’s a normal thing to ask someone, will make the most awkward string of notes sound like the easiest breath of air, and will make me cry every damn time she performs my work.

(goddamn it Instagram, continued in the comments!!!!) / photos by @theirphotographeraidan

I'm usually squeamish about putting my materials ✨out there✨, but I was tasked with writing a song for the magnificently talented @kevinmichaelmurphy for @billcoynespeaks ' MuseMatch concert series, and can't resist sharing the result. Thank you for the opportunity to have a hand in something so beautiful!

If you want to hear even MORE neurotic music from me sung by OTHER unfathomably talented people, you can swing by @emergingartiststheatre on Saturday night for the reading of my musical, Noise!

Just 10 days till MuseMatch takes the Greenroom 42

Just 10 days till MuseMatch takes the Greenroom 42!

Created by Bill Coyne and music directed by Nathan Dame, MuseMatch is a concert of new songs born from a series of “blind dates” between composers and performers. I’ve been tasked with writing a song for my absolutely brilliant IRL MUSE, @kevinmichaelmurphy! (Swipe to see him in his natural habitat✨

Get your tickies! It’s gonna get real neurotic up in here!

Woohoo! Excited and grateful to hear NOISE read by

Woohoo! Excited and grateful to hear NOISE read by some talented folks via @cg_theatreco ‘s new works series tomorrow night! Message them for the zoom link or be square!

Thank you @officialbroadwayworld for this incredib

Thank you @officialbroadwayworld for this incredible feature (it’s longer than these 2 sentences!), and @allengraymusicals for having me in last night’s New Voices Concert! It was an honor to share music from Painting Faye Salvez and Noise alongside such awesome emerging composers.

You can read the full Broadwayworld article on my website, RachelCovey.com, and check out last night’s livestream on the Allen & Gray Musical Festival Facebook page!

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