After a year and a half of steady progress on the score, we decided it was time to put together a pitch package for the show. So with the help of Elise Dewsberry at New Musicals Inc., we hired four professional singers, rented the NMI theater room and engaged Dylan Forehand to record audio and video of their performance of six songs from the musical, under Jon’s direction. Everyone stayed focused and played hard, and the day flew by. We’re still waiting for the final mixes, but were very impressed with what we heard raw. We’ll be using the results to pitch the musical at the “Biz of the Biz” conference at NMI in late July and many other places after that.
The day we were recording, I got an unexpected gift in the form of an out-of-the-blue email from the Beverly Hills Film Festival congratulating me on winning its 2022 Golden Palm grand prize for my screenplay Making Twain! We’re hoping it’s an omen of good things to come for our Mountain Lion as well.
The Very Last One and Only Highly Endangered Mountain Lion in Pennsylvania 