Demo Day, with a Bonus
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…
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Adventures in Covidland
2020-2022 Here’s an understatement–the theater world has not been the same for fledgling writers the past couple of years. As all theaters shut down, some permanently, the opportunities for readings and production dried up, the efforts at on-line socially distanced performance were predictably stilted, and collaboration, communication and commercialization all became more difficult, especially for…
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Taking Shape
Events of the past year have been driving me to put a finer finish on The Very Last . . . Mountain Lion, and work to improve my playwriting skills. First, I finished a few short 10-minute plays last year and submitted them to an array of opportunities, two of which paid off. My short…
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Progress!
Something in the corporate white-shirt world wants its occupants to suppress their emotions, speak calmly and dispassionately, leave every feather unruffled. Under the lingering influence of that setting, the dutiful office-bound lawyer I had been for over 30 years started to write this blog entry under the title “Status Update.” That’s what it is, but…
The Infamous, Elusive Pennsylvania Mountain Lion
There was a time when mountain lions ranged all across the North American continent, sheltered by nearly continuous forests, feasting on uncountable deer, antelope and smaller prey. Then the Europeans arrived, claiming farmlands from forest, becoming the dominant predator of game animals, and hunting, trapping and shooting mountain lions to protect livestock, and for sport. As…
Off to L.A.
This is the first post of what I hope are many chronicling the progress of The Very Last, One and Only Highly Endangered Mountain Lion in Pennsylvania, a new musical comedy I’m hoping to bring to life in the next year or two. I’m heading Sunday to the New Musical, Inc. “Business of the Business”…
The Very Last One and Only Highly Endangered Mountain Lion in Pennsylvania 