DR NOEL,
Glad to see the link to your show. I had the impression from a previous post that you were unable to obtain funding. This is a different show?
It's the same show. And the pursuit of funding is on-going and seemingly impossible. In my heart of hearts, I
truly believe that the day will come in which my producer and/or NYMF calls and tells me I don't have enough money raised for
Such Good Friends to be in the Festival.
But, since that day hasn't come yet, we proceed, doing all the things we need to do to open on September 28 at the Julia Miles.
I've been having a series of long and intense meetings with the director, in which we go over every beat of the show, questioning how things strike the audience (Frank Loesser punched a leading lady once, so I worry about striking my audience.) and that leads to tons of rewriting. Old (favorite) songs are thrown out; new songs are written, and I hope they're even better.
Also, the casting process has begun, using my dear wife Joy's firm, which has cast more NYMF shows than anybody, so they know what's what and who's who.
The producer and the director are busy finding the able people who'll do all the things we'll need done, like set designing, costumes, lights, tech direct, publicity, etc.
Fred,
Such Good Friends is a completely original show, and has nothing to do with the novel about adultery by Lois Gould or the film Otto Preminger made of it. I wrote book, music and lyrics completely from scratch.
It's about three funny pals who are putting on a Berle- or Caesar-like variety show in the early days of live TV. They know each other so well, they're able to avoid all sorts of only-because-it's-live calamities. You could say it's the same milieu as Laughter on the 23rd Floor and My Favorite Year, but far more serious and emotional. If you know the musicals that most people don't, I drew a lot of inspiration from Top Banana and Two on the Aisle.
The
Such Good Friends URL,
http://www.nymf.org/Show-74.htmlis remarkably similar to the one for BK's show,
http://www.nymf.org/Show-704.htmlCould it be NYMF knows we're
Such Good Friends?