Category: Musicals
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“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.…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…