Monthly Archives: March 2023
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, URBAN COWBOY
3/27/23It’s surely one of the less expected things on my résumé, but for a brief period of time in 2003, I put on a cowboy hat and boots every night and led the band of the Broadway musical, Urban Cowboy. Today is exactly 20 years from the opening night of that show, and while the musical itself was indefensibly ridiculous, that experience was one of the best times of my life, and I celebrate the craziness of Urban Cowboy whenever I can. (For those of you under the age of 50, Urban Cowboy the Musical was based on a phenomenallyRead More »
THE PARADE CAST ALBUM IS NOW AVAILABLE! (Also, concerts in April…)
3/23/23Real big news: As of today, right now, this very instant, you can stream and/or download the 2023 Broadway cast album of PARADE! Produced by myself and Jeffrey Lesser, with Ben Platt, Micaela Diamond, Alex Joseph Grayson and the whole amazing cast AND the 24-piece City Center orchestra (featuring Georgia Stitt on the piano!), the album contains seventy-nine minutes and fifty seconds of lush, delicious and sometimes terrifying music recorded in pristine digital stereo, including several new songs written for the Donmar production and now preserved for the first time in their full symphonic orchestration. Thanks to the folks atRead More »