Well this is fun news. The world premiere of my musical This is Tom Jones! received 13 BroadwayWorld nominations. The winners were announced recently and we won 9 awards! Not too shabby for a world premiere. And for a show that never had a reading or a workshop. Yeah, who thought that was a good idea?

Here’s what we won:

• Best Musical
• Best Ensemble
• Best Direction of a Musical
• Best Dance Production
• Best Performer in a Musical
• Best Choreography of a Musical
• Best Costume Design
• Best Music Direction & Orchestra Performance
• Best Scenic Design of a Play or Musical

The cast, crew, band, and especially everyone at The Human Race Theatre in Dayton, OH were simply a joy to work with.

What’s next for the show? Well, we’re pushing for more productions. Next up is a production at the Collaborative Theatre Project in Medford, OR April 25 – May 19. After that, who knows. Hopefully the great reviews and these awards will help propel it forward.

Wanna Hear the Music?

Here are some links to listen to the music.

Spotify
Apple Music
YouTube Music
Pandora

You can also buy the album at Bandcamp.

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Here’s a lyric video I put together for the song “Prison Lament” from my show Tom Jones the Musical. I wrote the song and then it took Paul about four hours to put together the arrangement.

Tom has been found guilty of killing a man and sits in his prison cell, lamenting (see how I got the title of the song?) his fate.

Paul, besides being the musical director for Pink and the TV show The Voice, also used to be in the bands Nelson and Whitesnake. He got to tap into his 80’s hair band vocals for the recording. And did he warm up? No. Kids, don’t try this at home.

You can see even more about the show at the official website Tom Jones the Musical.

And check out more videos at my Youtube site.

Thanks for visiting.

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I’m doing what I can to get my show Tom Jones the Musical out into the world, so I made a new lyric video for the song Spend the Night With Me.

This song appears in the famous eating scene. Almost everyone I know who has seen the 1963 film version of Tom Jones talks about the eating scene. And everybody kept asking me if the eating scene was in my show. How could I not have it in the show?

If you haven’t seen the film, the eating scene is where Tom Jones and Mrs. Waters express their lust for each other by tearing into a huge feast.

I originally wrote a song about British foods that sound naughty. You know, spotted dick, cockaleekie soup, toad in the hole. But Paul and I decided to go with a sexier song. Voila, Spend the Night With Me.

We did a live version of it a few years ago with Jennifer Sun Bell and Eric B Anthony. It was a spectacular performance from the two of them.

If you have $7 burning a hole in your pocket, could you do me a huge favor and buy the full concept album? I’d really appreciate it. Here’s the link.

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It’s here! The concept album for my show Tom Jones the Musical is now out and available wherever you stream music.

I really want to get this show out into the world. I’m really proud of what my good friend Paul Mirkovich and I did with the 1960s British Invasion-inspired music (I penned all the songs and he made them sound fantastic). And a huge thank you to all my friends who gave up their free time to record the songs and get paid in bagels. (If the songs stream enough, I’ll actually be able to pay them).

Some days I feel like Sisyphus with this show, but I haven’t come this far to only get this far. If you could help me out I’d really appreciate it. It’ll only take a couple of minutes, won’t cost you a thing, and will make a huge difference for me.

Here’s how. Any or all choices will be awesome:

1. Go to your streaming service of choice
2. Follow my artist page
3. Stream the songs
4. Put the songs on a playlist
5. Share the music with friends

The most popular streaming services (with links to the album or my artist page) are:

1. Youtube Music
2. Spotify
3. Apple Music
4. Amazon Prime Music
5. Pandora

And if you can—and I can’t believe I’m going to say this because I’ve always mocked people who said it—subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Thank you so much! I hope you’ll think the songs are groovy, baby.

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I’m contemplating changing the title of my musical adaptation of the novel “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling” from “Tom Jones the Musical” to “This is Tom Jones.” What do you think?

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Here are some of the songs from the show.

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We debuted five songs from Tom Jones the Musical at the Rockwell Table and Stage. We were part of the Foundation for New American Musicals’ Musi-Cal night. It was a raucous good time. Here’s a video of the performance of “Spend the Night With Me” featuring Jennifer Sun Bell and Eric B. Anthony.

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Our set at the Rockwell Table and Stage was a rollicking good time. I love this performance or “Fox Hunting.” Jennifer Sun Bell sounds fantastic. And Eric B. Anthony — well Eric surprised us with his dancing. It’s pure magic.

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We performed several songs from Tom Jones the Musical at the Rockwell Table and Stage in Los Angeles. Here’s a wonderful performance of “Digging a Hole in the Ground” by Miatta Lebile and Eric B. Anthony.

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The videos are slowly coming out. Wilkie Ferguson kicked off the night with “The Whole World has Evil.” I think he channeled Screamin’ Jay Hawkins for part of it.

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Special thanks to the American Foundation for New American Musicals for the video.

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Our set of songs from Tom Jones the Musical at the Rockwell Table and Stage was rollicking! It was a great audience and the cast tore it up.

When we perform at the Rockwell in September, it went really well. But this performance was wild. It was truly a magical evening.

Eric dancing up a storm during Fox Hunting.

Wilkie and Jennifer killing it.

As my daughter said, “Miatta slayed!”

And then there’s me.

I’m waiting on the video but here’s the audio of the show.

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