{"id":807687,"date":"2020-05-21T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1003831"},"modified":"2020-05-21T13:13:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:13:39","slug":"see-heather-christian-sing-we-are-not-strangers-from-the-liz-swados-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/see-heather-christian-sing-we-are-not-strangers-from-the-liz-swados-project\/","title":{"rendered":"See Heather Christian Sing \u2018We Are Not Strangers\u2019 From \u2018The Liz Swados Project\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heather Christian covered \u201cWe Are Not Strangers\u201d from the Runaways<\/em> musical. The track is off The Liz Swados Project<\/em>, a tribute album honoring the late theater director, out May 22nd via Gaslight Records.<\/p>\n

The video above features the Brooklyn-based composer and artist recording the Runaways<\/em> song in the studio, with scenes of a New York City apartment and other performers flashing across the screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the song is an invitation into a community addressed to someone who feels like an outsider,\u201d Christian tells Rolling Stone.<\/em> \u201cIn the show, it feels like a gesture from an extrovert. The lyrics also hold as an invitation from one introvert to another when you deconstruct the arrangement. That\u2019s a testament to some damn good writing and is all Liz.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christian recorded the song prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the video was made while in quarantine. \u201cI was delightfully surprised that the song had a new depth to it from the eyes of someone locked away in their house,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

She also addressed the theater community<\/a> struggling during the crisis: \u201cI\u2019m not the only person on the planet who cares deeply about the future of my chosen medium,\u201d she notes. \u201cI\u2019m one in eleventy-billion. I don\u2019t have an answer, I\u2019m not sure any individual one of us will, but we are a community comprised of problem-solvers and free-thinking generatives. No one chooses the theater because it\u2019s lucrative or smart. We choose it because we\u2019re compelled. That doesn\u2019t go away, even if its temporarily inhibited or dimmed. Once we get figure out a way to get out from under the thumb of the big fear and the big grief, then we can take our place at the table \u2014  and I think the song, with these ears right now, is an invitation to do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Liz Swados Project<\/em> also features contributions from Sophia Anne Caruso, Stephanie Hsu, Starr Busby, Amber Gray and Michael R. Jackson, who recently won a Pulitzer Prize for his musical A Strange Loop<\/a>. <\/em>The record is currently available for pre-order.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kris Kukul, Swados\u2019 longtime musical director, co-produced the record and provided orchestrations and arrangements. \u201cThis project is to celebrate the music of Liz Swados,\u201d Kukul says. \u201cFrom the 1970\u2019s-2000s, Liz wrote music for Broadway<\/a>, Off-Broadway, and theaters around the world, yet so much of her music went unrecorded.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Liz was well-known in New York City, this is an opportunity to introduce more people to her incredible body of work,\u201d he adds. \u201cShe spent her career pushing the boundaries of what theatre music could say and do, and was misunderstood for refusing to fit into the traditional musical theatre mold. This project means that her legacy will continue to grow and be appreciated by people who aren\u2019t familiar with her work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Heather Christian covered \u201cWe Are Not Strangers\u201d from the Runaways musical. The track is off The Liz Swados Project, a tribute album honoring the late theater director, out May 22nd via Gaslight Records. The video above features the Brooklyn-based composer and artist recording the Runaways song in the studio, with scenes of a New York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 12:08:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}