Thing A Week 2014 #7

A few years ago, I had played with the idea of doing an edit of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing". I wasn't sure how much I wanted to change, but when I spoke with my old friend, Scott Auden (who wrote the book for my first musical), he thought a complete update was the way to go. We'd use the story line of Shakespeare's original, but modernize the language and alter some of the characters. The idea was to have it set in a radio studio in the 1940's, and that the Duke was actually a crooner doing a live broadcast. As things tend to go with me when I'm writing, I found other things to concentrate on and abandoned the project. I came across this recording the other day. It was my first attempt at writing a crooner type song with both Shakespeare's words and Scott's lyrics. It's such an odd progression - lots of chromatic weirdness, but I dig it.

Thing A Week 2014 #6

The news I have to report is that there's no news. Or new blog entry. The idea of trying to type a lengthy blog entry on my phone makes me feel a little sick. I'm in London this week with my family and a friend. I had this idea that I'd post a new monologue I have, but I've just found out that it hasn't been looked at yet by my publisher for inclusion in a monologue compilation. It may still be rejected,  but I didn't want to post it before that decision was made. When I have access again to a real computer, I'll make up for this non-entry.
Cheerio!
Captain Crunch!

Thing A Week 2014 #5

I've always got a musical that I'm working on. This song is FAR from finished, but I was able to flesh out how the vocals would be arranged (which was key on this one) No drums, but I feel like they'd sound crappy if I used my ancient machine or (heaven forbid) I tried to drum it myself. I can play a lot of instruments passably, but drums ain't one of them!