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• A Psychopathic Jules Verne?

  Posted by gmadmin   |   May 30, 2013

  The one upshot of procrastination is that the longer I delay really hammering away at writing Havisham, the more the concept evolves and matures. I’ve been thinking for a while that this musical might not be for high schools. Most of my shows have large casts, which makes them ideal for big school groups but impractical for professional theaters. But the more I think about Havisham, the more I think it should be tight, small, and a little edgier than my high school stuff.

  Yesterday I had an idea: what if the show starts with Charles Dickens reading from Great Expectations, and he gets heckled by a lunatic Jules Verne. Verne has been following and harassing Dickens for months, showing up at all of his readings. Verne is NUTS. Completely unhinged. He gets up onto the stage with Dickens and keeps messing with him, ultimately pinning Dickens down on the ground and wresting the manuscript from him. Then Verne basically takes over the story and creates a new backstory for Havisham – one where she lives on an air ship, is a spy for the British against Napoleon, and where jazz was born a hundred years early and effectively put guys like Beethoven out of business. Havisham is a kind of Holly Golightly, dating French military officers and breaking hearts. Verne will play a series of characters, and Dickens is kind of forced to play the role of Jaggers (from Great Expectations), who loves Havisham. So there’s an interesting layer here that appeals to me: on one level, Jaggers suffers because of Havisham, but on another level Dickens suffers for his character, whom he created and loves. There’s a lot of fascinating, cool stuff to work with here, but it’s just not going to be for high schools, I think. Anyway, I just wanted to share those thoughts. I’m really excited about writing a lunatic Jules Verne. I saw a bizarre play called “Heddatron” at Stray Cat Theatre in Tempe a while back, and one character really captured my imagination. I can’t remember his name, but he is basically off his rocker and drives Henrik Ibsen out of his mind. Anyway, we’ll see where this show takes me!

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• 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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• Go Musicals is thankful for…

  Posted by gmadmin   |   November 22, 2012

  Go Musicals is thankful for all the wonderful support we have received from teachers and students, friends and family.
  Go Musicals is thankful for the directors who take chances with new work.
  Go Musicals is thankful for the young actors and actresses who share their light on stage.
  Go Musicals is thankful for the incredible talents of the growing Go Musicals team.
  Go Musicals is thankful for the opportunity to do something special.
  To everyone reading this: THANK YOU FROM GO MUSICALS!

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• Grand Theft Auto: the Musical

  Posted by gmadmin   |   November 15, 2012

  I want to write an in-game musical for GTA VI. Maybe it would be an adaptation of a storyline from one of the earlier GTA games. It could be a mini-musical or full-length. I’d do it for free if I had to. I just want to do it.

  In GTA IV you can go into a theatre and watch little cabaret acts, so a musical wouldn’t be such a stretch. The GTA games already have hours of original radio and TV content. As long as there’s room on the disk, why not throw in an original musical?

  If anyone reading this knows anyone at Rockstar Games, do me a favor and pass this along!

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• The Kerrinator 5000

  Posted by gmadmin   |   November 2, 2012

  A billion props to anyone who can tell me what the Kerrinator 5000 is! (Hint: it’s in the album. http://snd.sc/YkK0GZ)

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• Night of the Living Dead!!!

  Posted by gmadmin   |   October 31, 2012

  Is FINISHED!!! Wel… ALMOST finished!!! Lol just need to do a little more polishing on the last song. But those changes will be minor, so for all intents and purposes I’d like to celebrate Halloween by considering it finished. 🙂 You can hear the whole thing here: http://snd.sc/YkK0GZ

  Now let’s get this sucker on stage!!! Who wants to premiere it??
  P.S. Happy Halloween!!!

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• Night of the Living Dead

  Posted by gmadmin   |   October 25, 2012

  So, so close to being finished with the music…

  The premise is that dead pop stars are coming back from the dead. Here is my best Michael Jackson impersonation (apologies to the King of Pop):

  [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/64579943″ params=”auto_play=false&player_type=artwork&color=ff7700″ width=”300″ height=”300″ iframe=”false” /]

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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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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• Milestones

  Posted by gmadmin   |   October 12, 2010

  Just reached a major milestone: we finished the demo album for The Branson Bandit Babes!!! Be sure to request your perusal copy. 🙂

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• 6 Flicks for Halloween

  Posted by gmadmin   |   September 27, 2010

  October is the month for spooky movies, and this October I have a Netflix queue a mile long.

  In no particular order, here are the cream – my six favorite freaky flicks:

  1. The Shining
  2. Let the Right One In
  3. Nosferatu (Werner Herzog’s remake)
  4. The Exorcist
  5. The Ninth Gate
  6. Rosemary’s Baby

  Any one of those will give you chills this Halloween.

  Oh, and you might also check out the 1960’s ‘B’ horror movie Monstrosity: The Atomic Brain, cuz I’m in the process of turning it into a musical! Stay tuned… 😉

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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