This is Tom Jones Gets 9 BroadwayWorld Awards! 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 [...]
Don Quixote Rides Again In The Quest For Don Quixote My show The Quest For Don Quixote is being produced by the Main Street Theatre Works in Jackson, CA. I'm honored to be part of their 20th anniversary at the Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre. The show is directed by Allen Pontes, who directed my show Around the World in 80 Days at Main Street Theatre back in 2009. The cast includes: Blair Leatherwood as Ben, the playwright. (I can't even lie and say the role [...]
Prison Lament 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 [...]
You Can Now Stream the Tom Jones the Musical Album 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 [...]
I Wrote That? I've been working on a one-act version of "Around the World in 80 Days." With most theatres only streaming productions, I feel shorter plays (no intermission) are going to be more popular. And for years my friend David Emmes has been pushing me to do a one-act version. I'm changing it up a bit from the two-act version, so I went back to the book to look up a few things. I came across this passage from [...]
"Fox Hunting" From Tom Jones the Musical Live at the Rockwell Table and Stage 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK_89pSCgBM
Human Race Theatre Going Around the World in 80 Days The Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, Ohio is producing my play Around the World in 80 Days. The show runs Feb 28 - March 17. If the production is as good as the marketing, it's going to be a smash hit! The Human Race Theatre has some of the best marketing I've ever seen. If you're in the Dayton, Ohio area, please stop by to see the show. The [...]
Here's the Cast for Tom Jones the Musical The other day I posted about our return to the Rockwell Table and Stage to perform more songs from Tom Jones the Musical. We've put together a fantastic group of actors. Wilkie Ferguson Most of my musical theatre friends live in NYC, so I have to do some trolling out here in LA. I looked up musicals in LA and came across Spamilton. Wilkie was in the cast. I scoured ye olde [...]
Tom Jones is Coming Back to the Rockwell Back in September we debuted five songs from Tom Jones the Musical. It went so well that the Foundation for New America Musicals has invited us to come back in February to perform some more songs. Whoo to the hoo! We've put together a fantastic group of singers. Eric B Anthony is singing the part of Tom Jones. He's a fantastic singer and has been seen on Broadway in Mary Poppins, Hairspray,and [...]
Okay, so I've a play based on the P.G. Wodehouse novel A Gentleman of Leisure. It's a romantic comedy about a dashing millionaire who makes a bet that he can rob a house. He meets a three-bit crook and passes himself off as a renown international thief. He meets a girl, falls in love, hijinks ensue, and in the end - and here's the big spoiler alert - we discover he actually is a renowned international thief. It's an homage [...]
