In need of an internet theatre fix? These are some of our favorite recent articles: Backstage: Broadway’s Next Generation Gets Its Start in Concerts There is no shortage of concerts happening throughout New York. Hosting a night of original music has become something of a rite of passage for any young composer, which is partly due […]
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Without spending a shit ton of time explaining the rest of this post, I’ll just let it speak for itself. Here’s a list of little things from shows I just find unbelievably cool, with accompanying links to corresponding clips (save for #15). 1. The last “I wish…” Cinderella squeezes in at the very end of “Into the […]
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It’s a LOVELY autumn day out today. Birds are chirping. People are out jogging to enjoy the brisk air. And the homeless men on my block aren’t waving their dicks at traffic as angrily as they normally do. All in all, a new standard of pleasant has been created today on this loveliest of days… and where am […]
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Art in all forms is really enjoying being meta these days. For those of you who don’t know, “being meta” means that you refer to the making of the art in the art itself, such as a book that says something like “Dear reader” (like Les Miserables does), or when the fourth wall is broken. […]
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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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I met a man without a dollar to his name, who had no traits of any value but his smile. I met a man who had no yearn or claim to fame, who was content to let life pass him for a while. He kissed me right here, and he said: He’s savin’ it for […]
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I’ve never done the experiment, but I wonder what would happen if you filled a room with theater professionals – writers, actors, designers, producers, etc., and asked them each to list songs currently in the Top 40. What would the median number of right answers would be? Ten? Five? Two? (If you want to try this yourself, you can […]
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It is ten years ago. You are reading The New York Times and you come across this sentence about the latest musical to open on Broadway: the show “does not, alas, speak hopefully for the future of the Broadway musical.” And if somehow that piece – along with the production’s other scathing reviews – is […]
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I love Google Alerts! I can find out who has been singing my songs online or what websites have published press releases. (I really need a “best friend” at one of them because then I might better press coverage, but that’s a blog for another time…) Anyhooters… I recently received an alert that someone had […]
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Musical theatre requires a lot of practice in singing, dancing, and acting. But once you’ve got that down, you’re ready to perform. Except for one thing: What to wear. Some characters have very clear “costumes“, but with a lot of new musical theater, the characters are just like you and me (which is why we […]
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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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Many (but not all) musicals are adaptations. Songwriting teams have found inspiration in plays, novels, film, television, comic strips and even paintings (obligatory Sondheim reference #1). The challenge that these teams face is to create original material around the existing material. It’s a necessary challenge, because those other forms don’t tell stories with song. Even […]
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I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but in the past however-many years or so, there’s been a trend toward movies being turned into musicals. Oh, you have noticed that? Yeah, me too. But I’m not going to go on a rant about how this trend spells the end of musical theatre as we know it. It […]
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To anyone, but mostly, the “me”s, I am a white, cisgender, gay man, writing musical theatre in New York City, and I am not uncommon. The amount of “me”s I see writing and performing and garnering awards and taking new jobs and making names for themselves is staggering. The inherent male/white/and yes, even in this case, gay […]
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You may be surprised to learn that in addition to writing for the musical theater, I have had a bit of success as a choral music composer, too. For me, ensemble singing (and writing and conducting) taps into the part of me that really does prefer to be making music with other people as opposed […]
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On your path to becoming #NMTfamous, you’re going to sing. A lot. And most of that singing will probably be you singing solo (not counting when you’re performing in actual musicals). And that’s great! Singing solos is a lot of fun and allows the audience to really fall in love with you. But, there are […]
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