Tuesday, February 10, 2015
I would like to introduce you to my latest passion project, my superhero novel Hero. Hero is the story of Colton Silver, a very average Minnesota teen who is gifted with superpowers.&n…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 02:39PMMonday, March 11, 2013
I saw this on Pinterest and couldn't think of a better place to share it. This is an animatic, which is a moving storyboard used in the creation of some animated films. This one …
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:45PMWednesday, May 4, 2011
When I was teaching eighth grade, the number one rule was that kids couldn’t acknowledge they liked something. No one wanted to step out and be un-cool because he or she liked something t…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 08:36PMThursday, September 2, 2010
I found Andrew Gans' Playbill interview with A Little Night Music's Leigh Ann Larkin to be insightful and inspirational.Andrew Gans: When did you get to New York?Leigh Ann Larkin: I got to N…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 02:00PMFriday, July 9, 2010
I was so excited to see the tour cast of In the Heights perform on So You Think You Can Dance. I loved that show so much, it was like a mini reunion with some beloved friends. A big "I Miss…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 02:10PMSaturday, April 24, 2010
I hate country music. Let me say that again. I hate country music. I bought a Johnny Cash CD after seeing Walk the Line and never finished listening to it. This, however, impresses me. …
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 11:39AMThursday, January 14, 2010
I forgot my flash drive at home and cannot work on my next query letter over lunch at work, so I'm on for a minute with an update.TwitterYou may have noticed that I have a Twitter account no…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 02:31PMWednesday, December 9, 2009
I have to admit that I wanted to be the first to bring hip hop to Broadway. I own very little of anything that could be called hip hop, but when it’s used as part of a song or with the ri…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 02:21PMSaturday, November 28, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Let me start with an update.I got my first request for a complete copy of my manuscript.That's very exciting! As many of my readers know, I have been working on getting a novel published, wh…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 07:35PMTuesday, October 6, 2009
In the wake of seeing the tour of Mary Poppins, I thought I would share favorite songs from three of my favorite Sherman Brothers scores. “Are We Dancing”Here we have John Davidson wooi…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 10:00AMSaturday, October 3, 2009
The Mary Poppins tour is one of the few shows that came through town where a lot of people I know attended. I know people who want to see The Lion King or Wicked and aren’t able to get ti…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 11:08AMMonday, August 17, 2009
Here's sweetie Fantasia talking about her time as Celie (with footage from The Color Purple):Embedded video from CNN Video
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 08:49PMThursday, July 30, 2009
It was a surefire hit. Dolly Parton. Allison Janney. Joe Mantello. An adaptation of a well-known movie. It even had a music video for one of the songs.Oh, wait. I got that wrong. It s…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 02:05PMThursday, July 23, 2009
My 3 ½ year-old niece gets carsick. As evidence, she’s gotten sick in my car twice. Recently, I was driving her about two hours from home to a family wedding party. She slept for the f…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:38PMTuesday, July 14, 2009
There’s a story Betty Buckley tells in the bonus features of Rick McKay’s documentary Broadway: The Golden Age that is also told in Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer’s oral history…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:58PMTuesday, June 30, 2009
I’m a 32 year old straight man. What the heck do I want with a cheap vinyl/plastic/whatever backpack with Legally Blonde: The Musical written on it? Honestly. What am I supposed to do w…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:43PMMonday, June 22, 2009
I one time counseled someone in a Broadway chat room not to write off Hello, Dolly! after they had seen a community theatre production of it and thought it was only okay. Hello, Dolly! with…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:59PMWednesday, June 10, 2009
Before embarking on a three-day drive to California several years ago, a friend said, "And you're bringing some audio books?""No.""You don't get audio books?" she said with astonishment. "I …
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:50PMSunday, June 7, 2009
While I don’t think there is anything revolutionary about how music is used in Legally Blonde, I’ve learned immensely from the show through repeated viewings of the MTV broadcast and the…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:00PMSaturday, June 6, 2009
As I mentioned in a previous column, the Legally Blonde Original Broadway Cast Recording is probably destined to be one of my most-played new Broadway scores. The biggest reason for that is…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:39PMWednesday, June 3, 2009
Legally Blonde librettist Heather Hach has an almost annoying history. She was accepted into the Walt Disney Screenwriting Fellowship, parlayed that (courtesy of some sweat and talent, I’…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 09:11PMTuesday, June 2, 2009
Like, prior to seeing the tour of Legally Blonde, my experiences with the show were totally limited to the original movie (which I think I last saw in the theater), seeing “Omigod You Guys…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:38PMMonday, June 1, 2009
To kick off Legally Blonde week, I share with you footage from the national tour. Look for more coverage of the show all this week!
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:28PMWednesday, May 27, 2009
Ken Davenport, producer of Blithe Spirit, Altar Boyz, 13, and a number of other Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.What makes Davenport amazing? It's not because he held a Broadway blogger soci…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 08:48PMThursday, May 21, 2009
I recently saw Grey Gardens for the first time, and its use of narration (or maybe a better term would be a character addressing the audience) for half the story had me intrigued. Here are s…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:59PMSaturday, May 16, 2009
Lately I've been having dreams of New York City, reliving the thrill of being in the city of my dreams. My second musical is a ode, of sorts, to the New York I know, the New York of the tour…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 12:00PMThursday, May 14, 2009
Here we have a 3 for 1 special:AnnieCasting a play is a little like Christmas as a kid. Growing up, we’d always get the Christmas catalogue from JCPenney and Sears, then page through it, …
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 06:10PMTuesday, May 12, 2009
It's been a year since I originally wrote this, and I'm still not great at networking. I'm just now getting the hang of not shutting down when someone wants me to describe a project I'm wor…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 05:59PMThursday, May 7, 2009
In her autobiography My Heart Belongs, Mary Martin writes: A fine libretto, wonderful music, a role full of vitality can make milestones in the careers of entirely different personalities i…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 12:00PMTuesday, May 5, 2009
I just saw the Legally Blonde tour (more on that when I'm back into the swing of things) and was thrilled to to see three familiar names in the cast--Coleen Sexton (who I knew was the cast, …
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 12:00PM