Get Jack is a new musical that fuses rock with classically influenced music to tell the story of the five women victims of Jack The Ripper coming back to get their revenge. Creators Kip Winger and Damien Gray have spent four years developing the piece and are now ready to debut it in the form of a concert and album release. Their Kickstarter campaign is a very special opportunity to be part of this project in its first phase and to attend the, by invitation only, concert in New York City on October 30th.

A message from Kip Winger reads: "For the last three years, with the help of Damien Gray, I have been creating the Un-Jack The Ripper Musical, a fully sung through, fully orchestrated musical where we immortalize the women who Jack The Ripper killed, and set them loose to come back from hell to Get Jack. 

It all started three years ago when Chris Jahnke, Music Director on Memphis (Musical), introduced me to Damien. I met Damien on Skype and we hit it off. Early on, he mentioned the Composer Satie, and I was instantly in. I had been wanting to write a bigger work that would push my envelope into a new realm. My vision was a full orchestra work that rocked. Naturally, coming from my background, I combined my past with my present. Rock and Classical.

I often think to myself, I couldn’t have written this without having worked with Alice Cooper. That gave me the edge of authenticity to go deep into the horror of the story without being cheesy. 

Then I created an orchestral language of elements similar to those in my Grammy Nominated composition, Conversations With Nijinsky.  Lastly, writing some classic rock/pop music.

During the writing process, I’ve come up against the edge of my skills and had to grow more skill in order to make this work in the way, I felt, was good composition. It’s been one hell of a journey, (pun intended) to create over two hours of music that tell such a unique story.

Up until now, I’ve demo’d the music with me singing all the male roles, with three local Nashville singers singing all the women’s parts.  

Two years of writing, every free day that I was not touring, I’ve been working on Get Jack.  Now we're very excited about bringing this to life. We're hoping you will join us in supporting this project. We want to deliver the very best product and we still need to record the eight actors vocals, full orchestral parts (winds, brass, percussion, strings) drums, guitar, mixing and mastering. The costs of recording a project of this size are enormous.

For those of you who know my work, you know that I am uncompromising when it comes to high quality music, performance and production. When I record a record, my intention is that it will stand the test of time. 

We are planning on having a fully sung-through concert to my tracks on October 30th. Then we plan to record vocals in early November. Drums, guitars and orchestra shortly after that. Mixing and mastering will hopefully be completed by February 2018. From there, the sky’s the limit!  We’re hoping to bring this to the stage, and to the world.

Please join us to bring Get Jack to life. My sincere thanks for your support."

For further details visit the official Get Jack Facebook page.