In Dying Turns into Her, the primary characters kill one another a number of instances … for laughs! Robert Zemeckis’ 1992 movie is a cult basic; its stage adaptation — with a e-book by Marco Pennette and lyrics and music by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey — is a delightfully unhinged musical that I knew wanted the Tiny Desk remedy. However For those who’re questioning if the performers re-create any of the bodily comedy gags within the NPR Music workplace, you may have to go to the theater.
Mattison and Carey had been available to shepherd the Tiny Desk viewers by the world they helped create. Michelle Williams (of Future’s Youngster fame) performs Viola Van Horn, the potion slinging sorceress, with engaging mystique; she performs “If You Need Perfection” and reminds us that actions have penalties within the grooving “Do not Say I Did not (Warn You).” In “Inform Me, Ernest,” Megan Hilty (Madeline Ashton), Jennifer Simard (Helen Sharp) and Christopher Sieber (Dr. Ernest Menville) convey the bizarre and aggressive love triangle of their characters to life (with a memorable look from Josh Lamon). Regardless of the very fact their characters’ “hatred escalated into homicide” a couple of instances, Hilty and Simard showcase their dysfunctional and codependent love for one another within the present’s 11 o’clock quantity, “Alive Collectively.”
SET LIST
- “If You Need Perfection”
- “Inform Me, Ernest”
- “Alive Without end”
- “Do not Say I Did not (Warn You)”
MUSICIANS
- Michelle Williams: vocals
- Jennifer Simard: vocals
- Megan Hilty: vocals
- Christopher Sieber: vocals
- Noel Carey: keys, background vocals
- Julia Mattison: cowbell, background vocals
- Dillon Kondor: guitar
- Rob Jost: bass
- Ben Cohn: keys
- Damien Bassman: drums
- Josh Lamon: background vocals
- Taurean Everett: background vocals
- Ximone Rose: background vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Mitra I. Arthur
- Director/Editor: Kara Body
- Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
- Host/Collection Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Kara Body, Maia Stern, Alanté Serene, Nikki Birch
- Audio Engineer: Hannah Gluvna
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Michael Zamora
- Tiny Desk Group: Joshua Bryant, Lars Gotrich
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Collection Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
