Monthly Archives: January 2009
SOUND BLOG #12: THE LOST MUSICAL, Part 3
1/11/09[Part 1 can be read here, and Part 2 can be read here. You’re in for a long night.] I was in Philadelphia in May 1996, doing the very first reading of Parade. Every night was spent arranging and rewriting material, and all day was spent rehearsing with Hal and the cast. It was exhilarating work, and for the first time in my career, I felt like I was right where I belonged: in a room with the best people in the business, creating something magical. At the end of the day before the final presentation, one of the actressesRead More »
A “13” ROLL CALL
1/5/09In 2002, I came up with an idea for a musical that would be combined with a book series, aimed at and featuring teenagers. (Note, please, that this was several years before High School Musical was part the cultural Zeitgeist; at the time, nobody was thinking about teenagers and musical theater.) The idea was about a kid turning 13 and trying to make sense of an utterly chaotic life. I thought of six characters, all of them fairly archetypal but with some quirky twist, and put them in an anonymous Midwestern suburb, and started to determine the ways they’d interact.Read More »