Creator-director Thomas Kail walks us through the history of Freestyle Love Supreme, by way of photos they took over their decade and a half together
From left to right: Arthur Lewis, Andrew Bancroft, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Chris Sullivan, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Veneziale, and Christopher Jackson.
The promo art above, as Kail tells us, is “from early days because Bill Sherman is still playing the saxophone.” The mock-up album cover gives a sense of the nicknames that are crucial to the group, though as Kail points out, “Lin was not yet Lin-Man and Chris Jackson was not yet C. Jack and Bill Sherman was apparently not yet King Sherman.” Shockwave , as Kail remembers, introduced himself with a nickname already intact when the group was first performing at the Peoples Improv Theater.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Veneziale, and Utkarsh Ambudkar rehearsing. Photo: Courtesy of Freestyle Love Supreme As they bounced around, the group incorporated new members, including Utkarsh Ambudkar and James Monroe Iglehart. “James and Utkarsh both came through the same audition rehearsal,” Kail remembers. “They met on that day.”
A photo from the Pivot TV series, with Shockwave in a gorilla suit. Photo: Courtesy of Freestyle Love Supreme “There’s an episode called ‘Eat Me.’ The whole runner becomes the guys looking for ramen,” Kail says. “That came from a show we had done two weeks ago where someone suggested ramen.” As the group grew, it also started to work with Wayne Brady, a friend of Christopher Jackson’s, with whom they’d filmed an Adult Swim pilot in 2012.
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