Composer and PlaywrightFilibuster: The Musical! (2011)
a 10-Minute Musical for Voices and Orchestra
By Matthew Brown and Auggie Lutz
- My Wife Is Dead
- Valentine’s Our Guy
- Those Hookers Raped Me
Duration: 8 min.
Premiere: Performed December 6, 2011 in Test Drive at the Magnet Theater
Sketch comedy writers Matthew Brown and Auggie Lutz approached me about penning a few songs for a workshop of their satirical musical at the Magnet Theater in NYC.
Synopsis: In the midst of a damning sex scandal, the desperate but lovable Senator Jimmy Valentine hijacks a Senate filibuster to tell his side of the story, by way of a rock-n-roll musical.