The assignment was daunting: Write a song for an onstage moment of transcendence. Make it kind of funny and exciting and for a five-piece band. And, oh, it must plausibly be a rock hit in 1976.
Tony Award nominee Will Butler poses for a portrait on Monday, June 3, 2024, in New York. Tony Award nominee Will Butler poses for a portrait on Monday, June 3, 2024, in New York. This image released by O&M/DKC shows Sarah Pidgeon, from left, Juliana Canfield and Tom Pecinka during a performance of “Stereophonic.” Tony Award nominee Will Butler poses for a portrait on Monday, June 3, 2024, in New York. Tony Award nominee Will Butler poses for a portrait on Monday, June 3, 2024, in New York.
Adjmi hadn’t yet written a word of “Stereophonic.” He had the title, a vague concept and wanted it set in a recording studio. Butler over the next five years would submit “random” demos, like a song that someone might write if they listened to Phil Spector all day or one inspired by Sylvester in 1973 in San Francisco.
Butler credits the whole team — Adjmi, sound designer Ryan Rumery, orchestrator and musical director Justin Craig and director Daniel Aukin — for refining and refining the songs. All have Tony nominations. Butler was also able to help the cast understand what long hours in the recording booth are like and helped with technical details — like that it might take an engineer 15 seconds to rewind a piece of music — but left the writing alone.
They found a competent bassist in Will Brill and a good guitarist in Tom Pecinka. For the two female band members they lucked out on Julian Canfield and“We really lucked into our voices. Day one in rehearsal, Tom Pecinka and Juliana Canfield and Sarah Pidgeon sang together, and I was just like, ‘OK, it’s going to work out.’ It sounded like they’d been singing together for a decade, and it was just beautiful.
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