The Performers

This is the main theme for The Perfomers, a new comedy by David West Read, Directed by Evan Cabnet that opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theater in November of 2012. This track, played during the curtain call, is the only cue of the fifteen heard in the show which features the entire tune. Other cues, played during scene changes and underneath dialogue, were variations of this one.

The Performers: Complete Theme

This cue, a variation of The Main Theme, covers the transition from Scene 7 to Scene 8 and reflects the darkening mood of the 2nd third of the play.

The Performers: Cue 8

The transition from Scene 1 to Scene 2 showed the hotel room from the first scene morphing into the second hotel room -- a mirror image of the first. This melody, then, is an inversion of the Main Theme (Cue 1); a musical reflection of the visual transition. Because the scene change was relatively quick, the tune is only half as long as the Main Theme upon which it's based. The new key of the final horn "hit" is intended as a kind of musical question mark, designed to reflect the movement of the plot.

The Performers: Cue 2

The Performers takes the porn industry as its setting and this cue was written as the underscore for the fictional porn film The Planet of the Tits. An homage to composer Jerry Goldsmith's groundbreaking score for The Planet of the Apes, the primitive soundscape, led by a heartbeat in the bass, soon morphs into a "house music" theme as the characters in the movie shift from talking to fucking.

The Performers

Julian Fleisher