Tom Jones the Musical Demo Sessions Earlier this month I was in NYC to record demos for my new musical Tom Jones the Musical. We were in the studio for three days. Two days of recording and one day of mixing. Last week I wrote a series of posts about the songs we recorded on the first day. Here's the first post about the songs we recorded on the second day. I Wanna Go Home The song "I Wanna Go [...]
Tom Jones the Musical Demo Sessions I was in NYC last week to record demos for my new musical, Tom Jones the Musical. Man that's a clever title. This week I've been writing a series of posts about those sessions. The other posts are: Kerry Butler and Dan DeLuca recording “About You;” Anissa Felix and Josh Tolle recording “Digging a Hole in the Ground;" Janine LaManna, Anissa Felix and Cullen Titmas recording “Harlot Jenny Jones;” and Janine LaManna and Adam Kaplan singing "London [...]
Tom Jones the Musical Demo Sessions I recently got back from NYC where I recorded several demos for my new show Tom Jones the Musical. I'm doing a series of posts as sort of a behind the scenes look at the sessions. The other posts are: Kerry Butler and Dan DeLuca recording "About You;" Anissa Felix and Josh Tolle recording "Digging a Hole in the Ground" and Janine LaManna, Anissa Felix and Cullen Titmas recording "Harlot Jenny Jones." Me and Jay, [...]
Tom Jones the Musical Demo Sessions This is my third post about the recent recording sessions we did for my show Tom Jones the Musical. These posts are a sort of behind the scenes look at the sessions. You can read the first post about Kerry Butler and Dan DeLuca recording the song "About You." And the second post about Anissa Felix and Josh Tolle recording "Digging a Hole in the Ground." The lovely, talented and most likely drunk Janine [...]
Tom Jones the Musical Demo Sessions This is the second installment about the recording session we did in NYC for my musical Tom Jones the Musical. Yesterday I wrote about the first song we recorded: "About You," sung by the incredibly talented Kerry Butler and Dan DeLuca. Digging a Hole in the Ground After we recorded Kerry, we moved onto "Digging a Hole in the Ground." This song takes place in the second act. Tom and Sophie come face to face for [...]
Tom Jones The Musical Demo Sessions I just got back from NYC, where I spent three days in Mirrortone Studios recording demos for my musical Tom Jones The Musical (Clever title, huh?). We had a blast. I called up a bunch of my friends and asked if they would come in and record a song or two. I was shooting for a "concert" version of the musical, where the songs are sung by different people. They all said yes. I [...]
Florida Rep New Play Festival My new play "Love, the Cracksman" had a fantastic reading at Florida Rep Theatre's New Plays Festival in Fort Myers, FL. The Cast The funny boys. Lovers. Me at the talkback. Me and the director, Stefan Novinski. This was the first public reading and it couldn't have gone better. I was happy and relieved to hear wave after wave of laughter throughout the show. The reading was directed by my good friend Stefan [...]
Charity is All the Rage I like to steer clear of politics here. It's something I try to avoid. Sort of like working with kids and animals. You never come out on the winning side. But given our impending dystopia, I felt I couldn't keep quiet anymore. Right now our country is in a huge poop storm and many people and issues are at risk. It's a scary time. Religion, free press, human rights, the environment and many other people and issues [...]
Omaha Community Playhouse Goes Around the World The Omaha Community Playhouse, the country's largest community theatre (more on that in a bit), is producing my play Around the World in 80 Days. It runs January 20 -February 12. I hate to point these things out but my OCD gets the better of me. Here's the poster for the show. Can you spot the mistake? The Largest Community Theatre So it turns out that the Omaha Community Playhouse is the country's [...]
Tom Jones - The Musical Songs Hello my friends. On our path to getting my musical Tom Jones - The Musical up and on its feet, I need to find out which are your favorite songs. It would mean the world to me if you could take some time, listen to the songs and then pick your top three. Thank you so much. [poll id="3"]
