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ARIEL DEMURE TAKES BROOKLYN GRAY ‘UNDER HER WING’ FOR TRANSFIXED
Transfixed takes fans to the cabaret with new featurette “Under Her Wing,” dropping today on the Adult Time platform.
Co-produced by Bree Mills and Stella Smut, with Mills directing, ”Under Her Wing” stars Ariel Demure as an MC who is moving on from the local club she built and needs to find a worthy replacement. Enter Brooklyn Gray, who is starstruck by Demure—but Demure is unconvinced she has what it takes to inherit her throne.
For Demure, playing a grande dame who mentors her talented protégé in the ways of majesty was a dream role. “The only thing more exciting than playing this character was the chance to fuck the glorious and devastatingly hot Brooklyn Gray!” she said.
In addition to playing Demure’s protégé, Gray recorded an original song, written by Smut, for the featurette.
“I come from a background of theater, writing and photography, but I always wrote music as a form of catharsis—a therapy of sorts,” Smut said. “I had many dreams and lives I wanted to live, and writing musicals and being on Broadway was always one of them, so when I had the idea to write an original cabaret song for this episode of Transfixed—and Bree gave me the green light—I jumped on it immediately.
“I wrote the song and lyrics over the course of a few nights and sent it to friend Jaz Delorean, a piano prodigy living on a canal boat in Oxford, England,” Smut continued. ”He arranged the song that night on his boat, on a rickety old piano under the stars. The next day I sent him on a train into the city to Hackney Road Studios, owned and run by a dear friend of mine, and the song was recorded on a grand piano in London.”
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