December 2012

• Hipster Musical STATUS

  Posted by gmadmin   |   December 23, 2012

  At the beginning of 2012 I made a pretty insanely big promise. I said that four new musicals would be ready to roll by 2013. Granted, I had already written all four musicals, but none of the music had yet been written or recorded yet. So it was a big task.

  The good news is that It’s a Wonderful Life, Night of the Living Dead, and The Phantom Empire! are FINISSIMO. The Atomic Brain! has also undergone a major face-lift, with brand new tracks that are on par with our new stuff. That just leaves Hipster. The update on that is it is sooo close to being finished! All the tracks are done, so now I’m just layering in vocals. I’ll be done with the male vocals this weekend, and Leah will knock out the female vocals before New Years. So we are going to meet our deadline. 🙂

  I’ll do my own rough mixes and put those online so you can hear how the songs go. It’ll probably take a few weeks longer to get polished mixes, but those are just for demo purposes anyway. Lead sheets will be ready by January 10th, and then shortly after that those will evolve into piano/vocal books, and then full scores. Since most schools use canned tracks (which I recommend since we have the best canned tracks around) the lead sheets are all you really need.

  It was a tall order indeed, but we are gonna make it. I’m so proud of the Go Musicals team!!!

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• 2012 Les Miserables Film

  Posted by gmadmin   |   December 8, 2012

  In musical movies, the vocals are typically recorded in a studio before the musical scenes are shot. So the actors are lip-syncing in the performances you see on screen.
  
  I’ve heard that the upcoming Les Mis movie was done differently, with 

  the vocals recorded on-set. The actors are singing along to a keyboardist and then the orchestra is mixed in later. If this trailer is any indication, the difference really shows up on screen!
  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• GIT-R-DUN!

  Posted by gmadmin   |   December 4, 2012

  We are working like crazy here to get everything ready before the end of the year. The tracks for Kevin Frei’s Post-Modern Hipster Musical (You’ve Probably Never Heard of It) are coming together beautifully. Piano/vocal books, full scores, finishing touches on the scripts… We’ll git-r-dun. 🙂

  I had a lot of fun recording vocals for a song called “Fixie Meltdown” last night. Here’s a rough mix as a sort of preview:

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• New Musical Writers

  Posted by gmadmin   |   December 1, 2012
  One of my dreams with Go Musicals is that some of the young artists who perform our shows will be inspired to write their own musicals. I know it inspires me when I find other young writers creating new and interesting works of musical theatre. (It also gets my competitive juices flowing, big time!) Check out this great series on emerging musical theatre writers from Playbill.com to see what the top young talents in America are up to!
  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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