high school

• Tired of MTI Musicals?

  Posted by gmadmin   |   June 29, 2013

  I’m sure Music Theater International is a fantastic company, but schools and theaters need an alternative to the same repertoire of shows that get produced every year. Seriously, how many times do you want to direct Guys and Dolls?

  MTI gets the biggest shows straight from Broadway and Disney, so they are limited in how flexible they can be to accommodate smaller drama programs. Those shows weren’t written for high schools or community theaters. And at sixteen I personally wouldn’t have wanted to perform in anything with “Jr” in the title. For grade schools that’s fine, but not for high schools.

  Our mission at Go Musicals is to provide people with a fresh alternative to the MTI catalog of musicals. We hope you’ll take a look around the site and check out what we have to offer. 🙂

  Kevin and Leah

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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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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• Death Note: the Musical!

  Posted by gmadmin   |   October 21, 2012

  Watched the first couple episodes of an anime series called Death Note last night. I don’t know what makes me a bigger nerd: watching anime or thinking “this could be adapted into a musical” as I watch it.

  No, that’s a lie; I do know which one makes me a bigger nerd lol. Anyway it’s actually a pretty interesting show! You can watch the first episode of Death Note on Youtube. (It has subtitles. The version I watched was dubbed in English.)

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• Getting the Hang of Things

  Posted by gmadmin   |   June 26, 2012

  I started Go Musicals a few years ago with just Final Vinyl. I put most of my savings into that show and made many expensive mistakes. It’s been a rough few years of learning and adapting. With The Branson Bandit Babes, I totally missed the mark and have basically had to shelve that show (which is a bummer because I think it’s pretty cool). With The Atomic Brain, I think I finally figured out what I want to do with this company. In the past year I have ramped up production drastically, and I think the quality of the work has improved across the board. The music for It’s a Wonderful Life is my best yet, and Night of the Living Dead might top it. By the end of this year, I will have tripled the size of my catalog.

  I plan to keep up this rate of production next year and the year after that. As the catalog expands and improves, I’ll get bolder about investing more into advertising. I’ll start looking to form more partnerships, and I’ll start submitting my stuff to contests, colleges, and community theatres in addition to high schools. In five years I want to have 15-20 musicals, 10+ one-acts, and a few straight plays. By that time I would like to hire someone to help me with sales and advertising so I can focus more exclusively on writing new stuff. Maybe I’ll form some partnerships in foreign markets to translate my shows into other languages.

  I’d also like to start making movies. I think I could adapt most of my shows for around $250k. Film versions of these musicals would make great sales tools, and I think the actors who perform in the stage versions would like to have a copy of the movie.

  I’m feeling so fired up right now! I’ve been staying with a friend in Denver (sleeping on the floor!) and I’m stoked to get home and get back to work! 🙂

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• Summer 2012 – busy busy busy!

  Posted by gmadmin   |   June 4, 2012

  I just want to share an update about the shows I’ve promised to have finished by 2013. It’s a Wonderful Life is so close to completion I can practically taste it. The demo music should be completely finished within the next three weeks. I’ve decided to work on Night of the Living Dead next because I want to try to get it ready by Halloween if possible (though that’ll be pushing it). After that will come Hipster. Note that the songs are already written and I know how they’re going to go. There’s just a long, laborious process between having a song in your head and having it on CD. But I’m working on ways to speed things up, and so far it has been pretty successful. I am totally confident that I will have everything that I’ve promised ready in time for Spring productions. Hopefully some of it will be ready much sooner. 🙂

  So far I haven’t had much of a response to “Gene Autry in The Phantom Empire!”, which is a bummer because I think it’s an awesome show.  It’s the only show I’ve done where I’m not creating original music, so it was obviously ready much faster than the others. All the songs are authentic cowboy songs from the 1800’s. I initially planned to write new songs, until I started looking through the American songbooks and I realized there was no way I could outdo the classics. The lyrics to some of those old cowboy songs give me shivers. They probe into the deepest mysteries of life in a way I never would have expected. I hope I can figure out how to stir up more interest in that show, because it’ll be a real shame if nobody gets to see it.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• NOTLD coming along nicely

  Posted by gmadmin   |   February 28, 2012

  Making great progress with Night of the Living Dead. This might be the most fun I’ve ever had writing a script. 🙂

  Oddly enough, I’ve had almost no ideas musically for this show. That’s fine – I have ideas for the placement and subjects of the songs, and I have plenty of time to come up with the songs later – but it’s just unusual for me. Usually the music comes first and the plot comes later.

  I’m pretty much all set for Tampa in a few weeks! Woo!

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• Thespian Festivals 2012

  Posted by gmadmin   |   February 15, 2012

  I’ve been so swamped that I hadn’t even thought about the thespian festivals this year until Leah called me to remind me that Alabama’s is coming up! (We went to Alabama’s Thespian Festival last year in Huntsville and had a blast.) It doesn’t look like we’ll be able to make it to Alabama’s on such short notice, so I’d better start searching online to see what other states are coming up. Even if we can’t make it out there in person it would be nice to at least send something.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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