The DREAM soundtrack is fun, uplifting, catchy, warm hug from the 1970s. It’s about a time when the world gets lost and an ordinary person helps us find the way back together.
‘City of Dreams’ - New York at The Spark File Creative Showcase
(Jill Dryer, Art & Music/keyboard; Liam Davis, Producer/Bass Guitar; Bri’Anna Harper, Lead Vocals; DREAM NY Choir: Becca Brunelle, Melvin Cox, Joseph Clarke, Ross Dryer, Matthew Edwards, Eboni Harper. Photo credits to The Spark File. )
"City of Dreams" - All Cast
"Pay 2 Play" - Squelch
"Requiem for Lost Dreams" - Instrumental
There’s a magical mail-order company called DCT that delivers dreams. People can write in letters with their greatest wish, and they’ll send a package in response to help make it come true. (Think Amazon meets the Make-A-Wish Foundation.)
For generations, it’s been a beacon of hope and possibility. But times are changing and darkness is taking over the land. People are on edge and they’ve stopped writing in letters. It’s bad news for DCT, as a longstanding contract says they must deliver a million dreams by midnight —or it’s lights out for good this time.
24 stories down in the mailroom, Mr. Serious Pants runs the place with the utmost precision and devotion. His team hasn’t missed a beat for 3 decades. But today, he trips and falls into a shipping crate, launching him on an accidental journey.
Outside his comfort zone (his worst nightmare), Mr. Serious Pants will have to face his biggest fears, outsmart an evil villain hell-bent on destroying DCT, tame an angry mob, and try and find a way to save DCT and (gulp) save us all.
I’m always tinkering and creating the DREAM characters in many forms as illustrations, puppets, and as stars in ‘Paper Broadway’ -my tiny homemade theater - so I can imagine how they’ll be on stage.
HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
I produced an early "prototype" of DREAM on stage at Liberty High School in Hillsboro, Oregon. Alongside 35 students and their drama teacher, we built sets and costumes, learned lines and music, and put it all together on stage for a three-day weekend. It was the thrill of a lifetime.
KICKSTARTER FUNDRAISER
Fundraised over $10K on Kickstarter to create a recording of the finale track, ‘City of Dreams’ in Atlanta with a group of incredibly talented musicians.
THE FUTURE
Help me spark a movement of people who see each other as fellow travelers on the DREAM road…working together to build things they want to see in the world.
I’m seeking collaborators, funding, and support to bring it to life on a bigger stage.
Jill created the original music, art, and lyrics for DREAM and has collaborated with many generous and talented people along the way.
You can also see her artwork suspended in a 6-story atrium at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, on a big wall in Cambridge, UK, as paintings, murals, children’s books, and in an animated TV spot.
Liam is a 5x Grammy-nominated producer, performer, composer for TV & film, songwriter for gaming, brands, and bands…and has a company called Songtellers.
He plays in several Chicago bands and elevates everything he’s part of.
We’ve made 12 demo tracks for DREAM, and he weaves them together with a 70s thread and an authentic/soulful bent.
Thank you!
