Congressman Davy & The Drowned Girl
Come hear songs from a new musical in DC... and watch a teaser for a new film
Hello. It’s been a while. But there’s news from Richard Byrne, Inc. that I’d like to share with you.
Congressman Davy: A New Musical
A few years ago, I started collaborating with Dean Schlabowske (Waco Brothers, Wreck, Ramblin Deano & His Enablers) on a new musical.
It’s called Congressman Davy. And it tells the story of Davy Crockett’s last term in office as a U.S. Representative in Tennessee.
Neither pandemic nor distance has stopped us. (Though they both slowed us down.) We completed the first act last year, and are going to try and finish it all up this month.
But if you’re interested, you can peek into our process right now.
First, you can listen to one of the songs we’ve finished — “Poor Man’s Friend” — on Bandcamp. It’s Davy Crockett’s populist stump speech to Tennessee voters in a song. We hope you enjoy it.
Second, if you are in the Washington, DC area, you can come hear a special house concert by Dean Schlabowske in the urban paradise of Mount Pleasant on Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 5 PM.
It’s an outdoor gig sponsored by Urban Idyll Theater — which just concluded a sold-out run of Jim McNeill’s play Green Machine at the Capital Fringe Festival.
You can buy tickets here. And it’s a very intimate show with a limited number of audience members. So get them soon.
And, yes: Dean will play a few songs from Congressman Davy at the gig. And the Waco Brothers. And his own inimitable solo stylings. Please join us!
The Drowned Girl: A New Film
In the last few months of 2021, the team at Pandora Machine shot a script I had written called The Drowned Girl in DC, Manhattan, Jersey City, Paterson and Brooklyn.
The Drowned Girl is a fable about complicity, art, and evil in the Nazi film industry. What happens when the first person experience of history fades, and the past becomes myth. Who writes a myth? Who decides if (and how) the story changes as time blurs and edits it? What do we lose as human beings as we are transformed into a mythical character?
We’ve been working diligently on the film and we are making progress.
But today’s news? We are ready to show audiences a teaser for The Drowned Girl. It features Annalisa Loeffler, and was created by Andrew Bellware.
And stay tuned!