It was so great to sit down and chat with @mrdavidgordon from @theatermania about my new album “The Curtain Call Mixes”.
The Curtain Call Mixes is available to stream and download on all music streaming platforms.
The Curtain Call Mixes - A collection of curtain call cues from Broadway, Off-Broadway and Regional Productions! Now available for streaming and downloading on all music streaming platforms!
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The Curtain Call Mixes, which will include a hand-selected compendium of curtain call cues from Broadway, Off-Broadway and Regional theatrical productions. “The Curtain Call Mixes” will be released by Silent Voice Publishing on Monday, May 3 and will be available for streaming and download everywhere.
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Excited for the upcoming release of my album of some of the Curtain Call cues I’ve written for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Regional productions. I’m ready for live theater to start so we can applaud in person- but until then, get ready to clap along with these tracks!
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Both The Missing Girl and Trinity of Harmony are now available on all music streaming platforms!
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Happy to share a recording by uber talented Alice Ripley and Brad Simmons of my song “Carry Me Away”. I wrote this a few years ago when on a retreat with the Montello Foundation- all alone in the Nevada desert. It’s about longing for something new after reaching a certain age…according to a friend of mine, of course.
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Excited to share this new release-written during lockdown - my “COVID” song- sung by my dear friend, the amazing Susanna Phillips. All the tracks were recorded remotely in the musicians’ home studios.
This song is about the hope we all have to return to life as we once knew it.
Do you feel like you're rushing around without taking time to appreciate all that life has to offer?
A fancy new video for a favorite track I wrote for piano and cello. Title cut from the album “New Music for the End of the World” - Recorded back in 2009
“You gotta hold on, don’t let go- in the morning when the lights are low!” For all of us who wake up in the middle of the night, wondering when things will start getting better, this is for you!
The legendary Jennifer Holliday recorded this song back in 2002 (and then I did a different version for “Lysistrata Jones” several years later but we used this track as a “Bonus” on the cast album). The amazing background vocals on this track were arranged by Biti Strauchn
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One of the many horrific parts of Wednesday, 1/6/21, was witnessing those domestic terrorists parading around with the American flag, as if they owned it. We need to take back our national symbol from these thugs. I wrote this arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” several years ago as a way to reimagine the traditional national anthem so it embraces the country’s current diversity of cultures and conflicts that are all trying to unite under it. We need to redefine what our flag symbolizes!
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I wrote this piece, “Kyrie”, back in the fall of 2014 and my dear friend, Susanna Phillips, recorded it. After I lost my mother on Christmas Eve of that year, Susanna graciously flew down to sing it at her funeral. She would perform it again at her mother-in-law’s, Patricia Huntington, memorial service several years later. 2020 has brought unimaginable losses for so many- losses of loved ones, losses of jobs, losses of dreams, losses of hope. The lyric, Kyrie Eleison (Lord have Mercy) resonates more than ever and I’d like to share the song, along with images from 2020, as a way to remember the year, and look forward with hope.
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If I’ve learned anything this year, it’s that we must celebrate what we have, when we have it. This song, “Merry Be” from my musical “Hood” is about just that. So although this holiday may not be what we wanted, there is still much to be grateful for, we may just need to look a little harder. “So Let’s Merry, Merry Be, time is short for reverie. Let’s join and make our memories the best that they can be!”
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I am lucky that the amazing Susanna Phillips (@sopranosusannaphillips) is a good friend! In 2017, we were bemoaning the political turn our country had taken. I wrote this song for her, inspired by the German Lieder songs she is famous for (the lyrics are based on a translation of a Goethe poem for the purists out there). As our country continues to be torn apart by political wars, the song came back into my mind. I think it still resonates today more than ever.
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The game show “Power of 10” that I created the theme for has been played in over 20 countries and it is so fun to it travel around the world!
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Set deep in the Sagebrush Desert, this visually stunning puppet-forward play contemplates humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Puppetry, projections and an original score elegantly come together to create many layers of meaning and emotion, presented simply and elegantly with engaging and captivating puppets ranging from Bunraku to Pageant styles. PACKRAT is a poignant account of one peculiar rodent’s vivaciousjourney to find his place in the world as he ultimately discovers the interconnectedness of life.
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Hood will be getting a run at the Asolo Rep in Sarasota, Florida from May 15th - May 31st (previews begin May 6th). Directed by Mark Brokaw with a book by Douglas Carter Beane and music & lyrics by yours truly!
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Angela Arden wants to be free of her suffocating marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. What better way than poison! Distraught by her father’s death and convinced of her mother’s guilt, Edith Sussman plots to get the truth out of Angela using any means necessary. Charles Busch stars in the role he originated in this camp sendup where tongues aren’t the only thing dipped in acid.
With original music and songs by Lewis Flinn.
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