Monthly Archives: March 2007
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A FRIEND
3/19/07Hi-ho! A real entry will be forthcoming, but in the meanwhile, I’ve gotten several requests like this one: Irene Garrido Pascual wrote: I’m a singing teacher in Barcelona. I teach a little girl and I played her your song “What It Means To Be A Friend”, she loves it! And of course, she wants to sing it – it’s difficult to find a song for a nearly-teenage child that isn’t from Annie or something like that, hehehe. But the problem is that I can’t find the lyrics anywhere. I can just try to write the lyrics from listening to theRead More »
ASK JRB ABOUT A BAD NIGHT
3/9/07A ticket to a Broadway show costs over a hundred dollars. I think for that amount of money, you should be guaranteed a flawless performance with the entire original company. (In fact, I think for that amount of money, you should get to go home with the chorus member of your choice, but that’s outside the bounds of this discussion.) The fact is, however, that you’re not guaranteed much, other than a hopefully-not-too-uncomfortable chair and a Playbill. Nathan Lane might be out, lighting cues might get missed, a piece of scenery might get stuck, Mary Poppins may not fly, theRead More »
SOUND BLOG #7: ROSE’S DILEMMA
3/3/07Soon after I got to New York, I passed by the Broadhurst Theater and noticed that a new play by Neil Simon was opening. What really caught my eye on the poster was that the incidental music was written by Stephen Flaherty. I thought (and still think) that Once On This Island is one of the most wonderful musicals of the past twenty-five years, and when I saw Stephen’s name on the Neil Simon poster, I thought, “Man, that’s what a career looks like. When I really get going, I want to write a Broadway musical AND the music forRead More »