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Lotsa' Lovin' - Selections

Lisa Glick, vocalist. Mark S. Meritt, pianist. Recorded August 17, 2005, at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck in Rhinebeck, NY. The digital video was captured by Allan Meritt in March 2007 and posted by Mark on YouTube on March 11, 2007. More info: http://potluck.com/2005/07/lotsa-lovin-summer-2005/

Cupid's Arrow - Act II

Book and Lyrics by Mark S. Meritt, Ed Budd and Todd Stern; Music by Mark S. Meritt; Original Production Orchestrations, Direction and Musical Direction by Mark S. Meritt. This original musical was developed during the authors' sophomore and junior years at Roy C. Ketcham Senior High School in Wappingers Falls, NY. The Masque and Mime Society, the school's drama club, presented it as a full production May 27-29, 1988, near the end of the authors' senior year. The digital video was captured by Allan Meritt in March 2007 and posted by Mark on YouTube on April 23-24, 2007. More info: http://potluck.com/1988/05/cupids-arrow/
Book, Music and Lyrics © 2007 Mark S. Meritt; © 1988 Mark S. Meritt, Ed Budd and Todd Stern; (P) 2007, 1988 Mark S. Meritt

Bait and Switch

Screenplay by Mark S. Meritt; Directed by Mark Dashnaw; Produced by the Film Program of the Department of Theatre Arts Cornell University. This narrative short motion picture was produced by a motion picture course given at Cornell University during the summer of 1991. The script was chosen via a departmental screenwriting competition, which Mark won with this piece. The short was produced on Super-VHS video. In the story, a dysfunctional couple is made moreso when a television ratings company lures them into what is later revealed to be an Orwellian conspiracy. The digital video was captured by Allan Meritt in January 2007 and posted by Mark on YouTube on January 22, 2007. More info, including a screenplay to read along: http://potluck.com/1991/06/bait-and-switch/

Seriously Gratuitous: The Making of Gratuitous Violence

Direction and Editing by Paul Matz and Mark S. Meritt; Videography by Paul Matz; Music by Mark S. Meritt. This documentary short motion picture is a behind the scenes look at the making of Gratuitous Violence. It was shot on a VHS camcorder and edited with the camcorder and VHS VCR. True to its name, it is notable for being longer than the movie that is its own subject. The digital video was captured by Allan Meritt in January 2007 and posted by Mark on YouTube on January 22, 2007. More info, including the score in MP3: http://potluck.com/1992/05/seriously-gratuitous-the-making- of-gratuitous-violence/
Music © & (P) 2007, 1992 Mark S. Meritt