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2018 – Let’s Create Beautiful Things!

In Family Entertainment, Music, Musicals, Our Work, Shakespeare, Theater, Uncategorized on February 11, 2018 at 10:23 pm

Screen Shot 2018-02-11 at 2.10.25 PMThis is the time to make and create goodness. 134 West and Susan Lambert Hatem are excited to create many cool projects this year. Please join us. Reach out if you want to be a part of any upcoming projects. Or if you have a special project of your own you’d like to develop. We love to have creative partners. And we are available for consultation with writing, development, production and marketing. Email us: susan@134west.biz

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Upcoming beautiful things:

March 16 – Charlotte, NC CONFIDENCE (and The Speech), written by Susan Lambert Hatem, is a unique, gender-bending political play about confidence, women in politics and President Carter’s 1979 Crisis of Confidence speech. Come to the reading March 16 with Charlotte’s Off-Broadway and their PAGE to STAGE series. We are in talks with COB for a workshop production for Fall 2018!

homewardla_logo-e1518385065995.jpgApril 13 – 22  – 134 West is proud to join with many theater producers around Los Angeles to produce one of many HomewardLA events, a 10-day citywide event where multiple productions of monologues based on stories from people who have experienced homelessness will be performed by actors all around the city. HomewardLA’s goal is to increase awareness around the homeless crisis facing Los Angeles and raise funds for The Midnight Mission, a great nonprofit organization on Skid Row. We think it’s also having a neat side effect of bringing #LAThr people together.

screen-shot-2016-12-08-at-4-33-19-pmTy the Pie Guy – Wow! We’ve streamed almost 3 million minutes of Ty the Pie Guy episodes to over 1 million unique viewers across Amazon, YouTube, Facebook and other platforms! Thank you to our fans who continue to inspire us and send us photos and videos of trying Ty’s recipes. Great news! Ty Freedman and Susan Lambert Hatem have finished a draft of the Ty the Pie Guy screenplay. That’s right. We’re working on a Ty the Pie Guy movie!

 

Bend in the Road: The Anne of Green Gables Musical – After a fantastic workshop and reading with Children’s Theater of Charlotte last summer and some script updates, we’re excited do a full production of this fabulous show! Reach out for more info.

O Baby Mine: Sing a Song of Shakespeare LIVE! made it’s live concert debut at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in January to sold out crowds and great response! We were thrilled to work with NYC Children’s Theater on bringing Shakespeare music to children and families. Now, we’re developing the show further!

We are proud to be attached to Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa, written by wife and husband team artist Terry Holzman and cinematographer Ernest Holzman. Contact us to find out more about this beautiful ensemble screenplay set in 1968 that explores stories of friendship, love and four imagined days in the life of Dusty Springfield. We are currently looking for the right director(s). Reach out if you have interest.

 

O BABY MINE: Sing a Song of Shakespeare

In Family Entertainment, Music, Our Work, Shakespeare, Theater, Uncategorized on September 26, 2013 at 8:00 am
Songs for all the seven ages inspired by the bard!

Songs for all the seven ages inspired by the bard!

134 West presents O BABY MINE: Sing a Song of Shakespeare, a new indie album of children’s songs and lullabies inspired by, and taken from, Shakespeare’s plays.  Producer/Director Susan Lambert conceived this new concept album when she adapted the lyrics of Twelfth Night’s O Mistress Mine to sing to her infant son while rocking him to sleep.

Alas, poor Yorick...  Sing a Song of Shakespeare with O Baby Mine.

Alas, poor Yorick… Sing a Song of Shakespeare with O Baby Mine, a kid’s album inspired by Shakespeare plays.
© 2013 134 West, LLC

Executive Produced by Lambert. Produced by music and theater man-about-town Rob Kendt and featuring songs by Kendt, Madison Scheckel, Raymond Bokhour, Cinco Paul and many others! It’s a wonderful collection for smart and indie music loving families as well as theatre lovers and their kids. And, of course, for those who love the Bard, O BABY MINE is a wonderful way to share Shakespeare’s stories and words with all the seven ages.  And the great thing is, this music isn’t just for kids or for Shakespeare fans. When 134 West produces family entertainment, it means everyone enjoys the fun.

O Baby Mine Album art

O Baby Mine Album art – Front Cover – Sneak Peek
© 2013 134 West, LLC and Chad Calvert

Head over to O Baby Mine website for more info and to listen to some wonderful songs.  Explore the making of the album images and find some inspiring iconic Shakespeare moments re-enacted by kids.

Meanwhile, check out some of our album teaser with an exclusive sneak peek at our album art and the current track listing. The album is expected soon, so keep your ears open…

“Give me some music; music, moody food Of us that trade in love.”  – Antony and Cleopatra

O Baby Mine back cover art

O Baby Mine Album art – Back Cover – Sneak Peek
© 2013 134 West, LLC and Chad Calvert

Start Spreading the News…

In Musicals, Our Work, Theater on April 11, 2013 at 3:33 pm
Alison Woods in costume test for Anne Shirley.

The adorable Alison Woods in costume test for Anne Shirley.

…We’re leaving today (well, in June)/We’re gonna be a part of it/ on ol’ Broadway (well, 42nd Street)…

We are so excited to announce that BEND IN THE ROAD: The Anne of Green Gables Musical was chosen as a Next Link Project for the 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival! We get to bring this beautiful family musical to audiences in New York City. We’ll have 5 performances between July 13-28. Please check out bendintheroadmusical.com and follow us on Facebook and Twitter to keep up with the latest news. Read the Playbill article to find out more or check out the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) here. Rehearsals begin in June and performances in July. We’ll see you all in New York this summer!