Love Street
Meteor 17 has teamed with Freedom Theatricals, whose principals are multi Tony Award winning producer Corey Brunish (Carole King’s Beautiful; Come From Away’; recipient of the distinguished Olivier Award (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey_Brunish) and U.K. West End/ Broadway producer, Russell Miller (Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour; Sunday In the Park w/George), to develop and produce Love Street.
Set in the current day, Love Street is a repeating, multi platform series that will provide a deeply comic, thoroughly romantic portrait of the contemporary dating scene.
Set in Laurel Canyon, it focuses on the online world of Tinder and Bumble, while also looking at a more traditional means of romance, pre-internet, like chance encounters and courtship.
A charming, romantic, modern story that explores the light and shade of decades of marriage, the heartache and change that comes with loss and divorce, the quirks of modern day “Tinder” dating and the joy of new found love, for young and old alike.
Accompanied by a smart soundtrack of proven hits from various artists that will be a perfect mix of contemporary and older music, Love Street will trace the sentimental journeys of four very relatable characters as they embark on a series of dating adventures that range from comic fiascos to poignant interludes.
Love Street writer Stephen Amidon, is author of eight novels, one of which, Human Capital, has been adapted for the screen by Marc Meyers, with a script by Oren Moverman. The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. It stars Liv Schreiber, Marissa Tomei, Maya Hawk, Peter Saarsgaard and Alex Wolf. Human Capital was previously adapted into an award winning Italian film by Paulo Virzo. It won numerous David di Donatello Awards (the ‘Italian Oscars’), including best picture, and was the country’s selection for the 2014 Oscars.
MESSAGING
The show’s message illustrates how strong, independent women need each other for support, guidance and strength and how, ultimately, we can all find love at any time in any place and at any age.
The complexities of contemporary online dating are compared and contrasted against more traditional methods that expose simple nuances that will resonate with audiences from 18 to 80.
The audience will be left to question the pros and cons of the modern dating game.
TARGETING
The dual aspect story telling will predominantly target:
A) Women aged 50+ of all backgrounds and ethnicities.
B) Professional women aged *25-40+ of all backgrounds and ethnicities.
The multi layered, commercially structured story will generally appeal to audiences from 18 to 80.
Theatrical reference:
*41.7 years old was the average Broadway attendance in 2016/2017.
(People aged 50+ account for 32.1 percent of the population and made up 38.8 percent of last season’s Broadway audience.)
MUSIC CONTENT
The show will skillfully interlink the well-known music of established artists with contemporary artists of today.
The duality in the contemporary presentation of appropriate existing catalogues of music will, by design, appeal to different generations with subtle acknowledgement to the original sounds of Laurel Canyon; e.g. music of The Mamas & the Papas/Crosby, Stills and Nash, etc. - re-imagined acoustically by current artists such as Coldplay, Imagine Dragons or One Republic.
Our extensions and marketing plans range from:
Sponsorships/associations/product
Cross generation targeting
Social media centric
Relevant musically: new catalogues and we can invigorate existing catalogues
Socially driven with minimal barriers
Theatrical rights owned to bring to the stage (off Broadway, Broadway, touring companies)
OUR TEAM:
COREY BRUNISH, Producer
Corey Brunish has won three Tony Awards over the last seven seasons as a Broadway Producer. His most recent for best musical revival for “Once on this Island”.
He has won two Drama Desk Awards, two Audience Choice Awards, a Drama League Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award, as well as the Theatermania Award.
He co-produced the Grammy Award-winning cast recording of The Color Purple. He is a twice nominated producer for the Emmy Award (New York Region).
Corey is a producer of Beautiful, The Carole King Musical. Now one of the top 5% of the longest running Broadway musicals in history.
He is currently producing a new film that interviews the 20 surviving members of the original 60 member cast and company of West Side Story from 1957.
Corey also serves as a producer on the international hit Come From Away (Broadway Tony winner and touring companies)
Corey’s current show, Tootsie, opened on Broadway to rave reviews, garnering four Drama Desk Awards and two Tony Awards.
SPENCER PROFFER and Meteor 17, Producer
Meteor 17 is developing and producing an innovative slate of projects across TV, film, Internet, live event, and other platforms, integrating music and brand marketing as organic components.
The Company is a full service organization that participates from conception and architecture through all phases of deal making, production, marketing and distribution. www.meteor17.com. Headquartered in Los Angeles, M17 is helmed Spencer Proffer.
Proffer is an innovative media and music producer as well as a strategist, with a long history of connecting with audiences.
His productions and those in which he has been integrally involved with have garnered Academy, Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards and nominations. (e.g., “Gods & Monsters” {1 Academy Award, 3 Golden Globe Awards}; “Robbie Robertson: Goin’ Home” {2 Emmy nominations}; “It Ain’t Nothing But The Blues” {4 Tony nominations}).
As music producer, Spencer has sold millions of gold and platinum records, working with artists including Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Quiet Riot, The Little River Band, B.B. King and many more.
Spencer strives to make a difference in pop culture by producing profitable and entertaining projects which also have meaning and impact upon people’s lives. http://www.meteor17.com/spencer-proffer/.
M17’s projects benefit from a long term relationship with AMC, Regal and Cinemark’s Fathom Events whereby the company premieres their own proprietary content initiatives, owned and developed by M17. Shortly thereafter, the projects go downstream as documentaries, docu-series, dramatic mini-series, or films to SVOD platforms, broadcast networks and box office, worldwide.
Additionally, Proffer produces events which encompass content of behalf of major music and media icons.
RUSSELL MILLER, Producer
Russell Miller has over 23 years experience running large and prolific commercial theatres, sports and entertainment venues.
As a Senior Business Director he has been responsible for 12 regional UK theatres and 10 West End Theatres in London – the largest group in London for the world’s largest theatre owner/operator.
Russell has overseen notable productions including the West End revival of “Guys & Dolls” with Ewan McGregor and Patrick Swayze, which broke box office records, recouping in only 12 weeks.
He also oversaw the opening of Cirque De Soleil’s Broadway debut hit musical, “Paramour”, and Molière’s, “Misanthrope”, with Kiera Knightly in her West End debut with Damien Lewis, to name but a few.
Russell set up the business/commercial infrastructure to support the reopening after almost 50 years of the Hudson Theatre on Broadway, with Academy Award nominee, Jake Gyllenhaal starring in “Sunday in the Park with George”. Russell also had responsibility for associated US theatres and concert venues in Brooklyn and four regional US venues in New Orleans and San Antonio.
In 2012, Russell directly lead 90 departments and over 1,200 venue staff to oversee the planning and delivery of events for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, viewed at peak by an audience of over 3 billion.
