Song #7 - "This Sucks": My first-ever full-length solo concerts happened in November 2011, and I'm very happy that we were able to videotape them. This is a live performance of "This Sucks," the opening song from my upcoming solo musical, ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME.* I'm writing the show with Brendan Milburn and Joe DiPietro, who won the Tony for MEMPHIS; and I'm thrilled to be able to include music from SHACKLETON in my solo concerts. There are pre-recorded tracks in this song (unlike in my other looping videos where I build the arrangements from scratch) -- because the character I play in the show is a composer whose music is huge and symphonic.
*Ernest Shackleton was a famous Antarctic explorer in the early 1900s -- and he gets involved in the story later -- all you need to know now is that Kat is a composer, and we're in her studio.