On April 21st 2014, the New York musical theatre community saw an unprecedented event take place at the Dramatist Guild offices. Veteran, established, and aspiring musical theatre writers came together in one room with the hopes of making a large dent in the world of sheet music piracy. The phenomenal roster of composers and lyricists that […]
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Holy balls. Holy fat, sweaty, icky, stinky, stinky, stinky balls… I was on a train for 3 days. I spent all 3 days wide awake… my total sleep count for all three days was 9 hours. I’m awesome. What’s more awesome is that the trip was spent productively doing a few things… First and most […]
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This article originally appeared in the Nov/Dec 2011 issue of The Dramatist, the official magazine of The Dramatists Guild of America. In advance of the Guild’s upcoming anti-piracy awareness event, you can read more about the Anti-Piracy Committee‘s origins in this piece by committee chair Craig Carnelia. Republished with permission.
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I thought I’d try something different in this blog and write about one example of how I used the music that inspires me from other genres to create something new in musical theater. The moment I was writing in this case was the last ensemble number for my musical “Tiananmen,” where the students, in a […]
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I’m not sure when I first met Ryan Scott Oliver in person. But the encounter that stays with me was at a band rehearsal for Prospect Theater Company’s Annual Gala last year. One of Ryan’s songs from JASPER IN DEADLAND was on the bill as a preview of coming attractions, since plans for a Prospect […]
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I have a confession. Between my first application to the Dramatists Guild Fellowship and my last, the entire Bush presidency happened. To be more precise, a decade went by before I was invited to the table. That’s five generations of MFAs, two and a half Summer Olympics and every episode of LOST. Ten years ago […]
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Roughly once per week I call home and complain to my mom about my life. And then she complains back about hers. It’s so much cheaper than therapy or yoga or binge drinking or any of the other ways of dealing with stress. But that’s not the kind of calling I want to address in […]
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As I write this we are six weeks – almost to the day – before the first day of rehearsals for Dog and Pony at The Old Globe Theatre. When we finally reach that milestone day and all assemble in the studio, the next phase of the show’s development really begins. Excited doesn’t begin to […]
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When you’re expecting a baby, you go through a range of emotions. Excitement, anticipation, abject terror and, about five or six months into the pregnancy, utter boredom. But, by and large, babies take as long as they’re going to take to “cook.” No matter how much you want the little nipper to show up, opening […]
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NewMusicalTheatre.com recently sat down with Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham, writers of I Love You Because, to talk about their newest show, Next Thing You Know. Here’s an inside look at the show, its development, and Ryan and Joshua’s writing process: For those not familiar with Next Thing You Know, how would you describe the show? “Next Thing […]
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I have spent a few months working for a licensed ticketing agency located in Midtown Manhattan. Over the course of those three months I spoke to hundreds of tourists on the streets of New York who were looking to purchase tickets for Broadway shows, Off-Broadway shows, cabarets, concerts, etc… And I learned something very important […]
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“A novel is only a place of storage – of all the meaningful things that a novelist isn’t able to use in his life.” ~John Irving I came across this quote this week near the end of The World According to Garp, a truly amazing John Irving novel that I somehow didn’t read in high […]
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Customer service is always an interesting field to work in. You never know quite what will happen on any given day. Some days it may be a warzone, and others it may be quiet on that western front. And giving customer service online is no exception to that. I honestly can never know what to […]
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As we enter the last month of a year that seems to have raced by even faster that the years before it, I inevitably find myself taking stock. It’s the nature of the impending rollover into the new year. We all do it. We ask: did I accomplish enough? Am I where I wanted to […]
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Picture the beginning of each episode of the TV show “24”. The black screen, the beeping which starts slowly and gets faster and faster, the pieces of the digital display that flicker on and off as the ominous, music swells in volume. Then, almost as soon as the number fully forms, it flickers away again into darkness and […]
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Happy November and welcome to The Writers Block! This month, I am highlighting a song by the wonderful composer/lyricist, Michael Patrick Walker. Last summer, I had the pleasure of working with him when we performed together at a concert at the Hippodrome in London, along with Georgia Stitt. Born and raised in the small town of New Freedom, […]
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