Have you ever had a car in high school that was being kept together by the rust? Where duct tape is a design element for the torn upholstery … and you have to keep a window open wide enough to stick your arm in and unlock the door because the key won’t work properly.
Yes. That’s Finale – and that’s my story, I’m sticking to it.
We are almost finished recording the cast in our studio. Thought I would share a few pictures that we took with Marc Kudisch, Andy Karl, Michael Marcotte & Lisa Howard. We record our singers in the room known as our bedroom, usually with a lab or two on the bed watching. (Sometimes snoring – it’s not unusual for a singer to stop a take and say: ‘… um, your dog is snoring”).
Just one of the perks of recording at FatLab Music!
Lisa in action at the mic
Mike, Marc Kudisch, Roscoe, Kevin Del Aguila
Mike, Marc Kudisch, Andy Karl, Kevin Del Aguila
Mike & Michael Marcotte
Ms. Alice Ripley is joining our cast of superheroes as Eagle Woman this week in our recording studio for our demo of The Protagonists.
Kevin and I are really excited to have her. Although she will not be sporting her wings and feathers, she will be bringing that incredible voice with her. We are happy to report that the Eagle Woman has Landed!
I was fortunate enough to receive another commission last January from The Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus to set a text from Tony Kushner’s Angels In America. The piece is called “I Want More Life”, and Brent just finished mixing a recording of it in our studio.
Dr. Stan Hill, Artistic Director of TCGMC, (also responsible for my last TC-GMC commission, Through A Glass, Darkly) asked me to write “I Want More Life” for the Tony Kushner Celebration at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. The commission was made possible by the generosity of Jeffrey Bores and with the permission of Tony Kushner.
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Previously:
Last year I started working with bookwriter/lyricist Kevin Del Aguila on a new musical called “The Astonishing Return Of The Protagonists” about middle-aged superheroes trying to recapture past glories. This past week we’ve been in the studio recording demos of the first three songs, and the cast we’ve assembled is amazing and sounds fantastic.
When everything is mixed, we’ll post the demo tracks here — but for now we’re still waiting to find our Eagle Woman. Coming soon!
My nephew spent last week with us in New York. Last summer he attended the New York Film Academy tweens program, so this summer we thought it would be fun to make some actual short films. Cameron directed each of the shorts, and I wrote the music. Our good friend Emily Otto even joined us in Washington Square Park very early one morning to star in “Only One Spoon”. Enjoy!
And don’t miss this from the “Special Features” section of the DVD:
Overheard at The Farnsworth Invention, 11/06/07
A lady in Orchestra Center, Row M:
When I go to a musical, I count the number of songs so that I know how many I have to listen to.
Good thing for her she was at a play.
