night of the living dead

• Google Hangout with Albion High School

  Posted by gmadmin   |   October 8, 2014

  Been talking to Albion High School’s radtacular drama teacher, Gary Simboli, about having a chat with the students over Google Hangouts as they prepare to put on Night of the Living Dead in a few weeks. Leah might join too. I just wish I could make it out to Albion to see their production!

  Meanwhile Oki-Doki! is coming along beautifully. My mentor, Craig Bohmler, hosted a little readthrough at his house with some of the most amazing actors in Phoenix, and it went better than I could have hoped. Everyone seemed to really enjoy the script, and I was able to take their feedback and make changes that made it dramatically better.
  My instinct is to dive right into the demo to get this thing ready for next year, but Craig has convinced me to go a little slower and work on the material some more before nailing it down. Patience is not my strong suit!
  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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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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• 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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• Night of the Living Dead begins!

  Posted by gmadmin   |   February 25, 2012

  First day of writing Night of the Living Dead (after extensive outlining) went really well!!! This one is practically writing itself. It’s going to be great. It has very little in common with the movie, though.

  I’m also thrilled with how the demo tracks for It’s a Wonderful Life are sounding. Leah sounds amazing in “Live for Today.” Looking forward to recording another song or two for Hipster in the near future. I might forego doing backing tracks for The Phantom Empire at all because I really think that musical should be played live anyway, and there are already plenty of recordings of those songs to use as a reference.

  I really want to write a musical about Paris. I have some great ideas. Maybe 2013 (hopefully I’ll get to write on-location!).

  For now I’m enjoying my first-ever laptop computer. I got it on Craigslist for $200 and it’s sweeeet. I’ve always been prejudiced against laptops because I like to have plenty of room at my desk and laptops feel so cramped, but this will make it a lot easier for me to get work done while traveling. Maybe I’ll start going to Starbucks to write and become one of THOSE guys lol.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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• New website!

  Posted by gmadmin   |   February 13, 2012

  The new site is up and running!!! Our dependence on Google Apps grows deeper and deeper. Now I can stop pretending I’m a web designer and get back to work on Night of the Living Dead. 🙂

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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