Good Guy With A Gun! – a comedy musical concept album injecting the irreverent humor of The Book Of Mormon into a satire reflecting our modern-day political divisions – will arrive at all DSPs on July 31. Featuring a cast of film, Broadway, and TV actors including Chris Sullivan (This Is Us), Kimiko Glenn (Orange Is the New Black, Waitress, Spiderverse trilogy), Anthony Rapp (Rent), Yvette Nicole Brown (Community, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office), Rebecca Naomi Jones (Passing Strange, American Idiot, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Jason Alexander (Seinfeld, Merrily We Roll Along), Richard Kind (Mad About You, Curb Your Enthusiasm), Kristen Schaal (Flight of the Conchords), and Emmy-winning actor Paul Walter Hauser, Good Guy With A Gun is a standalone album after workshopping at Second City Hollywood and Z Space San Francisco.

Good Guy With A Gun!

After being held up gunpoint, actor/musician/composer Philip Labes began fleshing out the concept with his then-roommate Micah O’Konis, and the pair composed the music and lyrics over the next few years before bringing in Hal Rosenfeld (The Greatest Showman, In The Heights, “Only Murders in the Building,” Top Gun: Maverick, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) as Musical Director/Executive Music Producer to bring the idea to full sonic life.

Set in Washington, DC, Good Guy With A Gun! tells the story of NRA lobbyist Ron Barkley (Sullivan) and his daughter Jenna (Glenn), who attends protests with her stoner boyfriend (Labes). When Ron is confronted at gunpoint by a disgruntled keyboard warrior (Rapp), he prays to God (Alexander) for help and receives it in the form of a magical gun that makes people conservative. Ron uses the gun to brainwash Jenna's friends, driving the two of them apart, and in response, Jenna prays for a magical weapon of her own– a megaphone that turns people liberal. Now Jenna has the chance to turn her dad into the person she's always wanted him to be.

Today the album’s creators revealed “Liberal Love,” the first track released from the album. Liberal Love features Glenn and Labes pining away about their newfound relationship (“Our preferred pronoun is ‘us’”). Additional songs will be released prior to the album release on July 31; a full tracklist is included below.

About the creators:

Philip Labes (he/him) is a musician, actor, and writer whose work has garnered a fanbase of hundreds of thousands. After ten years of street performing in LA, Philip gained quick viral fame on TikTok, where he was spotted by Jason Mraz and invited to open on the Grammy-winner’s North American tour. That experience was captured by documentarian Jeff Toye in collaboration with DreamOps Studios to create the new documentary, The Opener set to a soundtrack of Labes’ songs, executive produced by Mraz. His viral songs have generated tens of millions of views on TikTok and Instagram, and frequently reach the front page of Reddit and Tumblr. He has written for TV shows on the CW and digital, and acted in HBO’s “Watchmen,” “Minx,” and the upcoming Duster from JJ Abrams.

Micah O’Konis (they/them) is a writer and musician based in Los Angeles. They co-created the award-winning musical comedy Good Guy with a Gun, which ran for two years at Second City and toured to San Francisco. Micah creates musical comedy with their spouse as Couplet, online and in-person at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Micah also writes and performs with “Quick & Funny Musicals” at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade monthly. Their music has been featured on FX, and their scoring accompanies the award-winning Cannes film Buster Baby, as well as a national tourism campaign for San Francisco.

Hal Rosenfeld (he/him) is a composer, music producer, percussionist, and orchestrator whose work can be heard in over 300 films, television shows, and video games. Hal has been involved with projects that have garnered Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony recognition, including The Greatest Showman, Fosse/Verdon, In the Heights, Fortnite, Only Murders in the Building, Top Gun: Maverick, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023). He recently produced songs for Paramount’s Robbie Williams biopic, Better Man, which became a #1 album in the UK, as well as songs for major label artists like Meghan Trainor, jschlatt, Elliot James Reay, Rosa Linn, as well as on albums that total millions of unit sales and over 1 billion Spotify streams, globally. Working outside of film and television, Hal has appeared with Ringo Starr, Lady Gaga, Laufey,Hozier, Yoko Ono, Jonas Brothers, Hans Zimmer, Kelly Clarkson, Andrea Bocelli, and Sting.