I, too, am recently shorn.
Funny you mention Ibsen, I encountered an impossibly old Great Man of the Theatre yesterday and, after he left, was asked how old he is. "I'm not certain, but I
have heard him refer to Ibsen as 'that petulant kid'."
I'm printing out the new draft of
Such Good Friends, and, as you might have predicted, the final scene doesn't resemble any of the previous final scenes I may have mentioned here at HHW. I think it evolves so much because my director and I don't want the audience to get ahead of us for a moment. Like to think every one of the 104 pages contains something the audience didn't see coming. Song quantity is back down to 28. Few people believe me when I say that even with 28 songs, this show has an unusually high proportion of dialogue to sung material. Think
Gypsy, not
Joseph.
Which reminds me that my musical director is currently doing
Joseph at the MUNY and what a stylistic change
Such Good Friends is going to be! One of my young assistants has created a page for the show:
http://myspace.com/suchgoodfriendsthemusical so visit that and become a friend if that’s the sort of thing you do. What amuses me is that the lyric you hear, the first half of Like Love, has been completely rewritten. The other tracks include a duet between the stars of
Our Wedding www.WeddingMusical.com and a trio which includes a young man who just got a rave in yesterday’s
Times for his Jojo in the scaled-down
Seussical. And I know you all know about NYMF’s page for the show,
http://www.nymf.org/Show-74.html – it evolves, too.
We had our first production meeting last night and it was a thrill to see the Dream Team assembled at the Polish Tea Room. Above, I was joking about going from
Joseph to
Such Good Friends; knowing that one of our designers is going from the Tony-winning
Coast of Utopia to
Such Good Friends is another thing indeed. I’m knocked out by this.
And someone who’s recorded some of my favorite Lost In Boston/Lost Musicals tracks for BK has joined our cast. She’s all grown-up now, but we’ve heard what dress size she wore when she was a little girl…