We’ve just completed a new draft of the musical in an intense weeklong residency at Goodspeed Musicals in East Haddam, CT. We are working to get ready for our first workshop at Playwrights Horizons in NY in April. We wrote three new songs and a new opening and opening number. We finally, I hope, cracked the back of Act Two. My collaborators, Jenny Giering, composer, and Adam Gwon, lyricist, are a dream to work with.
We all got sick during our week so missed the evening check ins with the 4 other teams in residence who were working on their own shows. A disappointment to be sure. But we made it to the final evening where each team presented a song for an invited audience.
We did have a chance to spend some time with one other team, Dan Messe and Nathan Tyson, who are adapting the film Amelie with playwright Craig Lucas. Got introduced to Dan’s band, Hem, which you should know about too.
Here’s a link to one of Hem’s gorgeous new songs: http://www.hemmusic.com/sound
To read more about this unique residency program, the only one of its kind to support writers during the creation of new musical theater work, click here: http://www.broadwayworld.com/connecticut/article/20-Writing-Teams-Announced-for-Johnny-Mercer-Writers-Colony-at-Goodspeed-Musicals-20130114#
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