April 14, 2015
We’re thrilled to announce that Sam Carner has won the 2015 Kleban Prize for Most Promising Librettist!
In the 25-year history of the award, past winners have included Jason Robert Brown, Craig Carnelia, Robert Lopez and Jeff Marks, John Weidman, Adam Gwon, John Bucchino, and other distinguished writers.
Congratulations as well to Sam Willmott, the winner of this year’s Kleban prize for Most Promising Lyricist.
April 6, 2015
We’ll be part of an amazing concert to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital on Monday, March 6 at 8pm at the Highline Ballroom (431 W 16th St., NYC).
The show features incredible performers like Jennifer Damiano, Ciara Renee, Lilli Cooper, and (singing our song), the pyrotechnic Jackie Burns. Original songs by fantastic writers including Tom Kitt, Bobby Cronin, Lyons and Pakchar, Zoey Sarnak, Joey Contreras, and the remarkable organizer of the concert Drew Overcash.
Tickets $25-45. Hope you’ll come have a great time supporting a great cause! For tickets & info, CLICK HERE.
March 30, 2015
We’re proud to release our first ever single, “Advice to a Young Firefly,” sung by the incredible Tituss Burgess.
To get your copy on iTunes, CLICK HERE!
March 16, 2015
Lea Salonga performed our song “Advice to a Young Firefly” in her unforgettable concert KALEIDOSCOPE on March 14, 2015 at Town Hall. Here’s the video Sam took from the balcony!
March 14, 2015
We’ll be the featured writing team in March’s Broadway’s Future Songbook concert at Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium. So mark down March 30th at 6pm in your calendars!
Our incredible line-up of singers features:
Leslie Kritzer (A Catered Affair, Legally Blonde, Sondheim on Sondheim, Rooms, Closer Than Ever)
Tituss Burgess (The Little Mermaid, Guys and Dolls, Good Vibrations, Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt)
Natalie Weiss (Breaking Down the Riffs, Everyday Rapture, Les Miserables)
Teal Wicks (Wicked, Jeckyll & Hyde, Finding Neverland)
Stephen C. Anthony (Book of Mormon, Catch Me If You Can)
Jackie Burns (Wicked, If/Then, HAIR)
David Perlman (Baby It’s You, Yank!, Anna Nicole: The Opera)
Danielle Wade (CBC’s Over the Rainbow, The Wizard of Oz)
Mj Rodriguez (RENT)
And introducing: Sophie Moshofsky,
Nat Zegree, Elyse Moon, Emily Schultheis, and Michelle Beth Herman
March 30th at 6pm
Bruno Walter Auditorium
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
111 Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street.
The show is FREE, and tickets are on a first-come-first-served basis, so make sure to line up early!
For more info, CLICK HERE. hope to see you there!
March 11, 2015
The incomparable Lea Salonga will be performing at Town Hall in New York City on March 14th at 8pm, AND we’re so excited that she’ll be singing our song “Advice to a Young Firefly”!
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS AND INFO
And here’s a photo from rehearsal:
February 28, 2015
We’re thrilled to be heading to Paris this week for a pair of Island Song concerts at the Comedie Nation on March 6 and 8 — as well as the Broadway au Carre concert on March 4. We’d love to see you there!
ISLAND SONG at the Comedie Nation
77 Rue de Montreuil, 75011 Paris
Fri, March 6 @ 9pm / Sun March 8 @ 5pm
Tickets 15 Euros
CLICK HERE FOR INFO AND TICKETS
Broadway au Carre at le Carre Parisien
1 Rue du Général Beuret, 75015 Paris
March 4 at 9pm
Tickets 10 Euros
CLICK HERE FOR INFO
February 7, 2015
We’re in London the week of 22-28 February, and we’re teaming up with brilliant West End Musical Director Dean Austin to offer a Master Class on Wednesday, 25 February 6pm-9pm.
The class will be at RADA, 16 Chenies St, London WC1E 7EX, The Henry Irving Room. Each participant will have 20 minutes of personal attention and, of course, get to observe the entire session. £40 to participate / £15 to observe.
If you’d like even more two-on-one time, we have very limited availability for Private Coaching sessions throughout the week. £90 for 50 minutes / room hire included.
Get our unique writers’ perspective on your performance and our feedback on ways of better conveying your song’s story, theme, and musicality. Bring in any song for feedback, or bring in a Carner & Gregor song for a truly unique perspective (receive the FREE sheet music and piano track for ANY song of ours with your booking).
Spots are extremely limited, so email to reserve your place:
[email protected]
December 11, 2014
We’ll be premiering a Christmas number as part of the Broadway’s Future Holiday Songbook on December 13th (Saturday) at 2:30pm at Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium (111 Amsterdam Ave. @ 65th St.)
This concert brings together musical-theatre writers for a concert of original holiday songs. The concert is FREE and open to the public, no reservation required.
In past years, we premiered I Hope I Can Wait Until Christmas and The Egg Nog Song. Our number this year “A Christmas Pageant” will be a mini extravaganza featuring McKenna Cox, Theo Dolan, William Thomas Evans, Nick Gaswirth, Elyse Moon, David Perlman, Natalie Sparbeck, Deena Sydney, Sebastian Hedges Thomas, and Kevin White.
December 6, 2014
Los Angeles’s own Mostly Musicals will be presenting our 15-minute holiday musical FLASH-PRIEST as part of their (Mostly) Holiday concert.
The show will be Monday, December 8th at 8pm at Cafe Fais Do Do, 5257 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.
$10 in advance / $12 at the door — CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
FLASH-PRIEST is the story of the Ye Olde Homestead Handicraft Company, an efficiency expert brought on to downsize the company, and the Secret Santa present that changes all of their lives.