March 2013

• Havisham Musical

  Posted by gmadmin   |   March 30, 2013

  The other day I was telling my mentor, Craig Bohmler, that I’m thinking about writing the musical back-story about Miss Havisham from Great Expectations, and he told me that there is already an opera called Miss Havisham’s Fire! While I’m a little disappointed that someone beat me to the punch (by several decades, apparently), I still think it’s a sweet idea for a musical and I will likely pursue it.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• New Musicals

  Posted by gmadmin   |   March 30, 2013
  We write new musicals for schools and theaters! We offer free perusals, the best backing instrumental tracks in the industry, high quality sheet music, lots of support, and more. Check out our large-cast musicals: It’s a Wonderful Life! the Musical, Night of the Living Dead! the Musical, The Atomic Brain! the Musical, Kevin Frei’s Post-Modern Hipster Musical, Final Vinyl! a Rock Invasion.
  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• Night of the Living Dead! the Musical

  Posted by gmadmin   |   March 22, 2013

  Night of the Living Dead! the Musical has a new song! I decided to flesh out the relationship between Harry and Helen in the latest draft of the script, so I gave them their own song: “Libertarians in Love.” I also changed “Take it Back” so it is a duet. This is also a good time to show off something new I tried with youtube. Check it out:
  You can use the little “annotation” links on the player to navigate the songs. Pretty cool, huh? Personally I still prefer the soundcloud player, but this gives people another option for listening to and sharing the music.
  Also, I built a dedicated page to Night of the Living Dead at www.nightofthelivingdeadmusical.com. Now why, you might ask, would I do that? The answer is that ol’ Kevo has been trying to learn how to get a better page rank in google for my key search terms, and it dawned on me that I have these great domain names going to waste. I also built www.itsawonderfullifemusical.com. Now why, you might still be wondering, am I mentioning all this in a blog post? Well, using this blog is part of optimizing for search engines, too. As long as we’re making the sweetest new musicals for high schools out there, we might as well help people find us on the internet! 😉

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• New One-Acts for Students!

  Posted by gmadmin   |   March 21, 2013

  Introducing two new one-acts that students can perform royalty-free! Visit our one-acts page and download any script you want. All I ask is that if you perform one of these scripts, tell me about it and send pictures if you have any. Feedback is a big help, too, so let me know if you love or hate the scripts!

   

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• Hipster and Living Dead Premieres

  Posted by gmadmin   |   March 16, 2013

  A couple of weekends ago both Night of the Living Dead! and Kevin Frei’s Post-Modern Hipster Musical (You’ve Probably Never Heard of It) had their premiere performances, and I was lucky enough to be able to attend both! My parents and I made it into a road trip, first heading out toward LA to see Bellflower High School’s Living Dead, and then driving up the 5 (through mind-blowingly gorgeous Scotland-like green hills) to Oakley for Freedom High School’s Hipster Musical.

  Both productions were amazing! Great singers, great actors, wonderful sets, lights, costumes, choreography, and staging across the board. I couldn’t have been more impressed or felt more honored to see so many talented people bring these shows to life for the first time. I was also very happy to see that the shows worked well, the audiences loved them, and most importantly the students loved them.

  After both performances I got to hang around and chat with the students. I could have done that for hours. After getting back to the hotel room with my parents the first night, I said to them: “I could really get addicted to this.” I don’t often get to go to the productions of my musicals, but I would go to every single one if I could.

  Big, big thanks to Eleanor Packwood at Bellflower HS and Michael Kleiman at Freedom HS for doing such a wonderful job with these shows and inviting me and my parents out to share in the fun. We had the time of our lives.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• Audition Songs

  Posted by gmadmin   |   March 1, 2013

  Need a fresh audition song? We let students audition with our songs for free. Just let us know which song you want to use and we will send you the track and the sheet music. We also let students perform our one-acts royalty-free. 🙂

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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