Penny Arcade, celebrated playwright and performer, inaugurated Dubway’s new live tracking room to record instrumentation for her new biographical musical, “The Art of Becoming,” which is about to tour Australia. The piece was created by Penny & her longtime collaborator Steve Zehentner, and touches on her early life, and the beginnings of her career in the notoriously colorful downtown avant-garde art and performance scene of the 70’s & 80’s. Perennial Lower East Side producer Chris Rael ran the session.

Not their first visit to the studio, Penny, Chris, & Dubway founder Al Houghton go way back.

Dubway’s engineer Violette Furton tracked several numbers from the performance, including a peppy rocker, “Christopher Street,” about the epicenter of the LGBT community and counterculture in New York City.