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Something Blue workshop at Diversionary Theatre

2/19/2020

 
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 Gordon and I are breathing in some welcome sunshine during a week in San Diego to workshop Something Blue at Diversionary Theatre. We're gloriously reuniting with director Matt Morrow and music director Patrick Marion, both from our world premiere of The Loneliest Girl in the World here last summer.  It's our first time meeting our three brilliant cast members: Bryan Banville,  Michael Cusimano, and Natasha Harris. The workshop is supported by a Frank Young grant from the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, for which we are so grateful! ​For a writer (well, why generalize....for me), having any place to call an artistic home is incredibly meaningful, and having that artistic home be somewhere teeming with generous artists, a welcoming community, and plants that look like they sprung fully formed from a Dr Seuss book, feels too good to be true. 

Songs featured in Underscore Theatre's Tiny Storefront Concert Series in Chicago

1/15/2020

 
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I love it when Underscore Theatre company includes us in their awesome concert series, and it's especially fun to have two songs featured in this month's nerd themed program.  Pictured here is Max Weinberg performing as Super Mario in Greg Edwards and my song "Won't You Be Mine".  

Interview with Dvora Meyers

12/2/2019

 
The wonderful Dvora Meyers interviewed Gordon and I about The Magnificent Seven for her Unorthodox Gymnastics newsletter; you can read the full interview here!  Dvora is a treasure trove about all things gymnastics, and has been a huge help to us as we develop this show.  
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Magnificent Seven World Premiere Slated for Spring 2020

11/18/2019

 
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So very excited to share the news that The Magnificent Seven will be getting it's world premiere this spring at Flint Repertory Theatre! The show will be directed by artistic director Michael Lluberes, with music direction by Rich Silverstein, with performances running May 1-10.  You can find more information (and get tickets!) here! Wahooo! 

Writers Retreat at the Weston Playhouse

10/29/2019

 
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Gordon and I are pleased as punch (pleased as cheese?) to be spending a week at the Weston Playhouse in Weston, VT, for a writers retreat. We'll be working on our show Choreomania, getting to know work by the other rad artists on the retreat, and eating as many cheese samples from the Vermont Country Store as we can in good conscience devour. Weston is the first place Gordon and I were professionally produced (the world premiere of Pregnancy Pact, in 2012), and we're just thrilled for any chances we have to return to one of our favorite artistic homes away from home.

REB+VoDKa+ME demos -- now with strings!

9/10/2019

 
Thanks to funding from Opera America's Discovery Grant, sponsored by the Virginia B Toulmin Foundation, I got to finish the string orchestrations for REB+VoDKa+ME and add them to our demo! You can check out the new playlist with the new orchestrations here! 

Magnificent Seven reviewed on GymCastic Podcast

8/5/2019

 
To my delight, we found out that our July reading of The Magnificent Seven at Urban Stages got a review on GymCastic, a podcast on the pulse of gymnastics.  We were overwhelmed and totally honored when the gymternet (yes, the internet of gymnastics is very real) showed up in full force at the reading.  We're thrilled that this reviewer got in to see the show, and that she had a good experience! You can check out the episode here (the talk of the show begins at 51:26, but tune in to the whole thing to learn a ton about the US Classic meet.) 

Pregnancy Pact excerpt at Barrington Stage Company

7/21/2019

 
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Next week, the Musical Theatre Conservatory Company at Barrington Stages will be presenting a 20-minute excerpt from ​Pregnancy Pact under the direction of the phenomenal Erin Krebs.  If you're in Pittsfield, check it out at 10:30pm on Thursday 7/25 or 5pm on Friday 7/26!

New Magnificent Seven demos!

7/17/2019

 
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We were back in the studio this spring recording demos for The Magnificent Seven, and you can now check out basically the whole score here! (plus a cut song that I insisted on recording anyway here.) Heartfelt thanks to the rock star singers and musicians who helped us bring this thing to life! 

Magnificent Seven reading at Urban Stages

7/15/2019

 
This summer brought the rare treat of getting to engage in two 29-hour readings of musicals basically back to back.  Less than a month after sharing a reading of REB+VoDKa+ME, Gordon and I were back in the proverbial saddle (or whatever the less macho musical theatre equivalent is....back in the binder?) again for a reading of our musical about the 1996 women's Olympic gymnastics team, The Magnificent Seven.  I can't describe (or at least not without getting prohibitively cheesy) what an honor it is to spend a week in the room with collaborators as talented and as hard working as these folks are.  We learned so much, and I'm already champing (chomping? which usages reads as less pretentious?) at the bit to get to return to this material again soon.  

The Magnificent Seven
Monday, July 15, 8pm
Urban Stages - 259 W 30th St.

Directed by Nikki Diloreto
Music Directed by Rich Silverstein
Movement: Sunny Hitt
Featuring: Kim Blanck, Ally Bonino, Nikita Burdein, Ellen Condon Macy, Rachel Flynn, Kendyl Ito, Madison Mullahey, Allison Posner, Lynne Marie Rosenberg, Ryan Speakman, and Tatiana Wechsler
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