Did the four-mile jog, ate some lunch, did some banking, picked up some packages and have had a telephonic conversation that, in principal, means we have a deal for Kritzerland to issue a major cast album from a new musical - not a hit, unfortunately, and already closed, but a nice score by people I really like. So, if the word of its composer, who paid for the recording, is anything to go by - "We have a deal." We're meeting on Monday to iron out all the salient points - if it's all a go, I think we'll get it out in about six to eight weeks time. They had a booklet designed at a cost of 6K that they asked if I would pick up the cost for. I told them they could keep it as a nice souvenir, since I don't pay anywhere near that figure - ANYWHERE near, and we do really nice booklets. This will be a long one, as they want the lyrics in, but 6K - people are a little insane, but if they find people who don't know better this is what happens. From what I'm being told about the album production, I probably could have saved them anywhere from 50 to 100K had I done it from the get-go. While the mix is not that pleasing to me, we'll try to help it in the mastering, but knowing what the producer was paid, it's a little shocking what he delivered.
