Talented Kids and Family

AnnieTigerChucky

Growing up I was a huge fan of the band. Nat is a gifted and prodigious singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Alex is a talented and prodigious drummer. Some of my favorite songs by them growing up included, but not limited to, "Catch Up With the End", "I Indeed Can See", "Nowhere (I Miss My Family)", "Girl of My Dreams", "Proof of My Love", "I've Got a Question", "Your Smile", and "No Night is Perfect".

Their mother, award-winning actress Polly Draper was the star of ABC's hit television drama 'thirtysomething' and created, wrote, ran (as executive producer), and directed the Naked Brothers show; their father, the successful jazz pianist/recording artist Michael Wolff, former band leader of the original Arsenio Hall Show, produced and supervised the music and appeared as their dad on the show. (The show also produced two charting soundtrack albums and Nat and Alex wrote all the music; their father produced it).

I had the chance of receiving an autograph by the brothers in the mail in August 2007 (through a jazz saxophonist who is friends with my parents), asked the family a question at the TimesCenter Stage in January 2008 (which can be seen on YouTube), won an online contest to appear as an extra on their show, and met the family backstage after their concert a few months later. They are exceptionally nice people.

The show was one of the biggest shows on Nickelodeon (the premiere in January 2007 produced Nickelodeon's highest ratings in 7 years for kids aged 6-11) and was canceled in June 2009 (after 3 seasons) because the network wanted to extend the summer-filmed seasons from 13 episodes to 60. Polly and Michael wanted them in regular school "to keep them exposed to the real world."

The boys are now in big-time, theatrical movies. Nat was recently in a movie called "Admission" with Tina Fey (who everyone thinks looks like Polly), and Alex is going to be starring in a movie alongside Brendan Fraiser next month called "Hairbrained" which won Alex Best Actor at the Brooklyn Film Festival this year.

Sources claim that Polly is writing and directing a new film and Oscar-winner Fred Roos, of The God Father Part II fame, will be producing it.

This show is so unique from others because it portrayed talented kids writing their own music. Nat and Alex are also the youngest artists ever to receive a BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) Cable Award in 2007.

score 10/10

AnnieTigerChucky 29 January 2014

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2951454/