FUTURITY: A Musical by The Lisps
Media Coverage
Futurity: A Musical by The Lisps began as a concept album about an imaginative Civil War soldier who dreams of building a machine that creates peace and evolved into a staged musical that combines history, science fiction, technology, and imagination. Upon entering Oberon for the world premiere of Futurity, leave your presumptions about musical theater at the door. Born of the art world and the indie rock scene, the show is part performance art, part rock concert, and totally defies conventional labels.
It isn't easy to put together a 90-minute musical that includes the Civil War, the birth of computer programming, indie rock, the internal dynamics of Lord Byron's family, mathematical formulas, and writing letters back and forth about an invention that will either save the world or be a precursor to the atom bomb.
A female scientist, a poetic script, gizmos, and an intellectual romance—“Futurity” has everything a hipster intellectual could ask for. The show revolves around the cast’s magnetic stage presence which, when combined with an innovative set design, makes this show a quirky musical triumph.
WGBH critic Jared Bowen reviews Futurity: A Musical by the Lisps on the airF
"Civil War meets sci-fi in rock musical Futurity": Read a preview of the show from the Boston Globe.
"Futurity is an epistolary science fiction story that is set in rural 19th-century Virginia, set to music that is a mix of experimental pop and down-home American folk and blues. But though it sounds like a lot to pull off, the show is scrappily engaging and surprisingly cohesive." - At Length Magazine
"Brooklyn-based band The Lisps definitely bring a unique element to New York’s indie rock scene. Quirky performances and eclectic sounds, influenced by folk and bluegrass, lend playful charm to lyrics-driven songs that are cerebral and wistful by turns..." - Lightspeed Magazine
"The plotline of Futurity is designed to combine an old-fashioned glam with the emptiness of contemporary technology; to recall vaudeville orchestras while looking forward to a synth-heavy future bereft of human strummings." - Papermag
Press Releases
Multimedia
Listen to Cumberland Gap from Futurity: A Musical by the Lisps
FUTURITY: A Musical by The Lisps on WERS 88.9FM
Listen to Singularity by The Lisps
Press Contact:
Katalin Mitchell
Director of Press and Public Relations
kati_mitchell@harvard.edu
617.495.2668
