25 stories from exilemusical.blogspot.com
Yes, 2014 has been a great year. I have never before started so many new journeys in a sngle year.
To start the year, I wrote a Rock Opera. Not a bad way to start off a good year. That ro…
Have you seen the news?
Yes, we are going public.
When? 16 November 2014
Where? The fringe at the joburg theatre
Watch the video on youtube. There are many snippets from the music of the …
Introducing Wake Not The Dead and the Rock Opera Orchestra.
What is Wake Not The Dead
Let start at.....well...at the start.
Ok. I know that was not very original. Rule number one in writin…
And the body hurts. Â Protea Stage Production's production of Aladdin and his magic lantern had a very successful run of total 11 shows. After the last show we had the traditional after …
I am really blessed to have the opportunity to be involved with theatre. The greatest thing about theatre is the people that make theatre happen. Our current production is very special. I ha…
Wikipedia defines a rock opera as a work of rock music that presents a storyline told over multiple parts, songs or sections in the manner of opera. The LA rock opera company virtually copie…
The Exile is a musical in 2 acts, with book by Edward Swardt and music and lyrics by Eric Swardt. The story starts on freedom day celebrations, ten years after the first democratic election …
I do not usually comment on other blogs on this blog. I know shooting at others give them good reason to shoot back. A recent blog post, Why the decline in social media managers is a good th…
 New song recording!  You can download the track here What did I ever do wrong. Or stream it from my web site at Dog-on-blues, or from Soundcloud. Every song has a story. This son…
Last night I saw St Albans college's production of Copacabana. I go watch their productions every year. Maybe, the fact that I am great friends with the events director and musical director …
Last week I looked at the analysis of some motivational songs. We have seen that the song form for these kind of songs leans very strongly towards the verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus…
I was asked to write a motivational song. Easy enough. There is not much trickery to it. I just have to write something about how great things will turn out if you keep on believing in yours…
When you go through life, you have to find inspiration from many places. Sometimes that inspiration may come from other people. Sometimes that inspiration comes from a song. Sometimes that s…
I own my iPad since the iPad2 was released and have found many ways to use the iPad. Visual.ly published an interesting survey done on how musicians use the iPad. One problem I find with mos…
Last Sunday I blogged about the job of the music coordinator. Panic ensued in some places after reading the post, mostly from people who confuse the job of a musical director (MD) with the m…
If you google for a musical coordinator, you will find many pages telling you what a musical coordinator does. None of them are really in agreement, and none of them really describe what a m…
The newspaper reported this week that the murderers are now finally convicted for a crime I talked about in January. It was the murder of the parents of my friend, by two men who stuck them …
Our PSP.TVT host, Michael, presents the second of our interviews with cast and crew of Aladdin and his magic lantern! Earlier this week we had an interview with the show director and writer,…
PSP.TV Backstage with Michael Brownhill: Interview with Cameron Lawry Please subscribe to our youtube channel, like us on Facebook and follow us on twitter and go to our web site to subsc…
We love theatre because of the wonderful people who are in theatre. With all the auditions over and all the roles casted, it is time to share some of the wonderful moments we had.
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Track: Long long time Album: Out takes from the Exile concept album recordings Remember the exile? Off course you remember the exile! This is a blog started about the exile. The exile is a m…
Track: Give it a chance
Album: The Exile, the musical - out-takes Here is a bonus track for the fans. It's an out-take from the Exile concept album recordings. It is the second to last son…
As I promised you, Protea Stage kicked off its Social Media Marketing campaign this week and to make this work, I am going to ask all my readers to help us making it a success. It took us a …
Last time I introduced you to Social Media Marketing (SMM) for theatre. Today I want to talk a bit more in depth about it by introducing the two elements of Social Media Marketing. Without t…
I gave you an overview of my theory on marketing for musical theater and I told you about our most important target markets, the people who care about us. Today I want to take this further t…
