Download the lyrics booklet HERE.
15 actors and 12 musicians from 4 countries and 3 continents came together over the course of the last year and a half to create the concept album for Whisper Darkly, the first electro-swing musical. What is Electro-swing, you may ask? Exactly what it sounds like: a mashup of classic jazz and Vaudeville musical vocabularies and instruments with 21st-century EDM dance beats – think of it as part 1928 and part 2028.
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Whisper Darkly is a new electro-swing musical delivered using immersive theatre techniques where the audience become the patrons of the Hush Club speakeasy.
In 1928, at the height of Prohibition and before the Wall Street Crash, Topeka McShane is riding high as the proprietress of Manhattan’s never-been-raided night spot. Her patrons love her, an old friend visiting from Paris is gracing the speakeasy with her vivacious presence, and Topeka’s niece Evie, recently arrived from Kansas, is being introduced to the underworld. But on this night, unexpected events threaten to silence the Hush Club and change the lives of its denizens forever.
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Featuring Peter Saide, Shelby Putlak, Carrie Kozlowski, Khalifa White,
Emma Degerstedt, Chris White, Andrew Sellon.
Costume Coordinator: Kurt Alger
Videographer: Garth Kravits
Lead Vocal by Aléna Watters
Shot at The Back Room, one of the last Prohibition era speakeasies still operating in NYC.
Workshop 2021
In 2021 a fully staged AEA workshop was mounted in Orlando, Florida.