Be Our Guest with Eric Price & Will Reynolds (The Violet Hour)

WILL REYNOLDS (Music) and ERIC PRICE (Lyrics and Book) are musical theatre writers based in NYC. Shows currently in development include The Violet Hour and Radioactive, which charts the discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie. Will and Eric are songwriters on the AppleTV+ animated series “Central Park,” starring Leslie Odom Jr., Josh Gad, and Stanley Tucci. They also wrote the song “When I See You Again,” which can be found on Broadway Records’ benefit album “Artists in Residence.” Their papers for this project have now been permanently housed in a Special Collection of the Music Division at the Library of Congress. Will and Eric are the winners of the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Writing, the Kurt Weill Foundation’s Lotte Lenya Award, and the Dramatists Guild Fellowship.  In 2020, they created the online Musical Theatre Education platform THIS MT SPACE. THE VIOLET HOUR If you knew the future, would you try to change it? The story is set on April 1, 1919, when John Pace Seavering, a young publisher, comes to possess a machine that inexplicably begins printing pages from books. Books from the future.Page by page, John pieces together a vision of what the next century has in store for himself, his friends, and the world at large. And once he decides he wants to change the future, the clock is ticking.