I spend a lot of time with musical theatre writers. A LOT. And nothing could make me happier. To paraphrase Mary Flynn, “That’s what I wanna do, write! Oh, how does anybody write songs though? To me, that’s the gift of gifts.” As Director of Programming at 54 Below and as a Musical Theatre Historian, I feel very lucky […]
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Q: Thank you so much submitting to this interview! I’m a big fan of your songwriting! A: Aw, shucks… well, I love the way you sing my songs. It’s like you know exactly what I’m thinking. Q: [blush] So we’re here to chat about your new song cycle Month Upon a Time. A: Actually, it’s […]
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I’ve tried to write a blog for NewMusicalTheatre.Com about four times now. The concept of jotting down my thoughts in an organized and public manner intrigues me, but every time I start I always write a paragraph and give up. Hannah Ehrenberg, who runs the blog, probably thinks I’m a flake and tells everyone behind my […]
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Since my old pal Kait Kerrigan did such a great guest post for me, about show writing and collaborative work in general, I thought for NMT I would point to some specific ways that my work as a librettist and lyricist has informed my subsequent career writing fiction. I definitely learned how to write dialog, just […]
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When NewMusicalTheatre.com asked Drew and me to write a blog post about our upcoming concert and the associated Fresh Pens contest, we decided it would be best to sort of interview each other in a back and forth Q&A style-session. Below is the end result. Your cool key: DO = Drew Overcash; BP = Blake […]
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Recently Playbill asked their Twitter followers who they would want most to play the King of Siam in the forthcoming Broadway revival of The King and I, and posted what one presumes were the nine most popular responses on their site. Of those nine, four of the profiled actors were not Asian. Of those four, […]
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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’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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When I first started the website The Write Teacher(s), one of my goals was to have it be a platform for concerts, readings, and shows. I love to create. I live to create, but never have I had the desire to center stage under a spotlight – that’s just not my jam. Instead, I’ve always […]
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This piece originally appeared at Breaking Character, the online magazine of Samuel French, Inc. In honor of the one-year anniversary of Sandy Hook tomorrow, Brad Alexander is republishing it here. Whenever a news story moves me to want to express something, the little voice in my head inevitably asks, “Who are you to document this major event, […]
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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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Hello, citizens of the NewMusicalTheatre nation – my name is Nick Blaemire, and I’d like to commandeer this here blog for a few paragraphs to talk about a seemingly innocuous, not at all innocuous four-syllable word – “temporary.” It’s been coming up quite a lot lately as I continue to make stuff with my friends, […]
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I’m sure I’m the only one out there that needs a kick in the inspirational pants from time to time. No one else ever needs a trick or two to get the creative juices flowing. But just in case you have a friend who might need a little help, here are three of my quick […]
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I was sitting on a beach in the Baja when it hit me. I’d had it with writing musicals. I’d been doing it for a while, and with a decent degree of semi-success, but I’d hit a wall. They take forever to finish. And they’re so – well, so American. I was longing for something that happened […]
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