Category: Musicals

  • “You start writing the next one.”

    There’s this amazing scene in the movie tick, tick… BOOM! that I had to watch again. It happens after Jonathon Larson has his big presentation of a new musical that nobody on Broadway wants to produce. He says, “So what am I supposed to do now?” Rosa Stevens says, “You start writing the next one.…

  • Musical Movies

    I love musicals! Recently, I took the time to watch In the Heights and Tick, Tick… Boom! again. Both of these are excellent movies. Here are a few reasons why each of them speaks to me. The energy that courses through In the Heights is contagious. I love the characters, locations, and situations. I particularly…

  • Easy To Be Hard

    While thinking about the musical Hair, I remembered that I had recorded another song from the musical. Here’s my rendition of Easy To Be Hard. After listening to a different recording, I realized something interesting about this song. Some of the lyrics that I sang do not show up in the other recording. Instead, “Especially…

  • Where Do I Go?

    For a long time, I’ve enjoyed the musical Hair. Here’s my attempt to sing and play Claude’s existential crisis song.

  • Musical Theater

    For as long as I can remember, musical theater has been an important part of my life. When I was a kid, I listened to Paint Your Wagon and Camelot over and over again while in a bean bag chair, with large headphones on either side of my head. Through the years, I fell in…