This is just a quick update diary on the state of the Daily Kos Light Opera Company Project and Hate Mail-a-Palooza: The Musical.
First, a reminder about who we are:
The Daily Kos Light Opera Company Project and its corresponding group is a work group to create a short musical theatre piece based on Daily Kos hate mail and famous pie fights to be performed in conjunction with Netroots Nation 12 in Providence, RI. This group and its diaries will serve to solicit suggestions, coordinate talent and bring interested Kossacks together in creating what may be the first musical ever based on the contents of a blog.
Over the jump for news and updates...
Good News
Yesterday, we found out that we are on Markos' radar. He posted this comment in his meta diary yesterday in which he asks to be kept "directly informed" about the progress of the project and suggests that he would like to see it premiered at the Daily Kos Saturday night party at NN 12. This is good news. Of course, there is no telling exactly when it will be scheduled, but that sure sounds like a "command performance" kind of statement to me. I want to take this opportunity to publicly thank Markos for taking an interest in this project and for wanting to be in the loop as we go forward. This should be a funny production and just the right tone to close out the convention.
Update
Impolitics and I still owe our CVs to producer Horace Boothroyd III. I have had near constant houseguests this month and I have to admit I have fallen behind a bit. The reason for this is because our producer is looking for grants for us. Anyone else with grant-writing experience who would like to help out, please get in touch with Horace by KosMail or with me or both.
As for other fundraising, the Max Bialystock Memorial Fund will be set up to receive donations via PayPal to help offset incidental costs as soon as we have a working outline for the drafts and we can figure out how to set this up so that any fund is transparent and accountable to the community. (Anyone who has had experience with receiving funds for DK projects, please be in touch, we could use your help and suggestions).
Kossacks Currently in the Company Working Group Are:
commonmass, composer and musical director
impolitics, librettist
Horace Boothroyd III, producer
Sharoney
Common Sense Mainer
mem from somerville
Mnemosyne
barbwires
jabney
indycam
SJerseyIndy
loggersbrat
Rogneid
lcork
raincrow
4Freedom
DontTaseMeBro
UnaSpenser
beverly woods
ontheleftcoast
blue aardvark
zenbassoon
Lorinda Pike
TheSolipsisticMe
Susan from 29.
If you see your name on this list please continue to make note of your favorite hate mail and send it in to the group KosMail. Many of you have already found some great gems. Impolitics will work with this to come up with great lyrics--I have heard some of his work and he's excellent.
Frequently Asked Question of the Day
Q. Will there be edscan and ErrinF in the musical?
A. (CM affects his best Who?™ voice:) You Betcha!
Thanks for taking the time to read the update. More volunteers for culling through the hatemail and for all sorts of aspects of production are always welcome. Send a message to the group to join or simply to submit hate mail.
Happy hate mail hunting!