Soon 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 ofRead More »

I’m sitting in the middle of tech rehearsal at the Taper. They’re lighting the section of “Being A Geek” where Evan goes into the audience. Oh, wait, I’m giving things away. Ignore that sentence. I just got back to L.A. after a week in Seattle conducting the Seattle Symphony for John Pizzarelli‘s Christmas show. ItRead More »

This week marks the first time since May of 2001 that I’ve had a new show go into rehearsal for a production. In the five and a half years since Norbert and Lauren started working on “The Last Five Years,” I’ve been through a lot: professionally, I did “Urban Cowboy,” released a solo album, performedRead More »

Oh, I suspect there are many things in the world that can be blamed on Larry Blank, but only some of them are musical, and this is the story of one of those things. I made Larry’s acquaintance through our lawyer, Mark Sendroff, when I asked Mark for some recommendations for orchestrators. (Larry has doneRead More »

I thought one of the cool things I could do on this blog would be to show how my material evolved from demo recordings to finished product. The tricky part is that I didn’t want to post anything that was actually bad or even unfinished, although that would have been the most instructive, so inRead More »