Sometimes in life, you feel like everything is under control, and you're a fairly normal person who has their shit together and you're going to be okay.
OTHER TIMES...
This song cycle is about the other times.
All the lyrics come from assignments in William Finn's lyric-writing class at NYU, which William then asked Jamie to set to music. Noticing a theme, Jamie turned the set into a song cycle written by her and her friends. (We're fine. Thanks for asking.)
Cast/Set Requirements and Production Details
There are 17 songs in the song cycle What's Wrong With Me??. If performing the whole song cycle, it is recommended that you have 4-7 performers.
SONGS
1. Let's Not Talk About It - Group Number (Music & Lyrics by Jamie Maletz)
2. A Delicate Dance - Solo (Music & Lyrics by Jamie Maletz)
3. Okay, so the world is ending -Solo (Lyrics by Alex Higgin-Houser, Music by Jamie Maletz)
4. I Just Wanted to Eat Turkey -Solo (Music & Lyrics by Jamie Maletz)
5. Franchesca - Trio for 3 Women (Lyrics by Annabel Mutale Reed, Music by Jamie Maletz)
6. Catch - Solo (Lyrics by Jessie Field, Music by Jamie Maletz)
7. STOP - Solo (Music & Lyrics by Jamie Maletz)
8. My Brother and I - Solo (Lyrics by Sam Rosenblatt, Music by Jamie Maletz)
9. Any Other Day - Solo (Music & Lyrics by Jamie Maletz)
10. Man Wasn't Meant to Fly - Solo (Music & Lyrics by Jamie Maletz)
11. February Fucks Me Up - Solo (Music & Lyrics by Jamie Maletz)
12. Nihilist Thanksgiving - Solo (Lyrics by Jessie Field, Music by Jamie Maletz)
13. I Do Not Run - Solo (Music & Lyrics by Jamie Maletz)
14. Accident Prone - Solo (Lyrics by Sam Rosenblatt, Music by Jamie Maletz)
15. I'm Definitely Gonna Fuck This Up - Duet for 2 Women (Music & Lyrics by Jamie Maletz)
16. No Matter How You Look at It - Solo (Music & Lyrics by Jamie Maletz)
17. Write a Song - Group Number (Music & Lyrics by Jamie Maletz)
If you would like to purchase the rights to perform this song cycle, please email jamie.maletz@gmail.com. You can also purchase sheet music for individual songs by going to the Store page on this website.
Jamie Elizabeth Maletz is a composer/lyricist, bookwriter, and producer of new works of musical theater. In New York, her works have been featured at Lincoln Center, Feinstein's/54 Below, NYU, Dixon Place, Under St Marks Theater, and Broadway Night at Prohibition. She received her MFA from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU Tisch. Maletz has written 12 full-length original musicals, most of which have received workshops/readings or productions in New York and Arizona. As a composer/lyricist, Jamie has studied with Mindi Dickstein, William Finn, Rachel Sheinkin, Michael John LaChiusa, Steven Lutvak and Sybille Pearson. Jamie is the Administrative Assistant for Maestra Music Organization, and she writes the Women Who Wow Us series for the Maestra blog. She is also the Events Coordinator for Ring of Keys and the Technical Director for the American Popular Song Society. Jamie has worked as an intern with Tom Viertel/The Commercial Theater Institute and Ken Davenport.
She is a member of The Off-Broadway League, Maestra, ASCAP, The Dramatists Guild of America, and Fractured Atlas.
Maletz received her BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011, where she designed her own major: Creative Writing and Composition for the Performing Arts. She spent her high school years at Boston Arts Academy, a performing arts high school from which she graduated as Valedictorian.
She is a monster enthusiast & mythology nerd, she loves board games, and she is a photographer/videographer whose favorite models are her two cats, Artemis and Batman.
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