YOUR BRAND-NEW INCURABLE DISEASE
book & lyrics by Jack Schlesinger
music by Danny Ursetti
Your Brand-New Incurable Disease is a new musical in development about an incurable disease librettist Jack Schlesinger currently has in development, with music by Danny Ursetti, who is currently unaware of any incurable diseases, but he hasn't gotten a physical in a while. We follow Zack as he tries to pursue a comedy career despite his body and mind shutting down around him, helped and hindered along the way by a ensemble chorus of pills in a complex and genre-hopping score. Through comedic abstractions we see Zack’s worsening illness as he tries to figure out what it means to be “okay”.
2018 - NYU Tisch New Studio workshop production, directed by Jerry Dixon
2017 - NYU 29-hour reading
Ensemble: Trevor Bunce, Ben Chavez, Bethany Eggelston, Cori Jaskier, Noah Pelty, & Emily Trias
Piano: Mark Evans
Orchestrations: Danny Ursetti
Demos recorded, mixed, and mastered by Mark Evans
PHOTOS from NYU TISCH New Studio on Broadway Workshop Production
