A great review for A (TOOTH) FAIRY TALE in the New York Times. The reviewer said the show was "very funny", "melodically rich" and "never less than original."
Two more chances to see something of ROOM 16. On April 17 at 5:30 we're presenting the title song (sung by the incredibly Jeny Foote) as part of a "smoker" -- an evening of songs from the BMI Musical Theater Workshop. Then on Monday, May 12 we'll do a scripts-in-hand reading of the whole first act at the Snapple Theater, under the auspices of Musical Mondays. Come check it out.
There's a cast album available for A (TOOTH) FAIRY TALE. As of now it's just on sale at the theater (The Soho Playhouse) when the show is up, but send me an email if you're interested and I'll help you get a copy!
ROOM 16, the musical I’m working on with Stephen Sislen about the Watergate break in, has been selected to be a part of the ASCAP Foundation/Disney Musical Theater Workshop. The workshop is directed by Stephen Schwartz, of Wicked fame. We will present on March 31; if you’d like to come, please let me know.
The aforementioned Watergate musical, ROOM 16, will be presented by Musical Mondays at the Snapple Theater in midtown on May 12. If you’d like to come – or you’d like to know how one goes about writing a musical about Watergate – please send me an email.
A (TOOTH) FAIRY TALE, the kids musical with songs by Rick Hip-Flores and book by me, sold out its initial run at the Vital Theater and has now transferred Off Broadway to the Soho Playhouse. It runs Saturdays and Sundays at 12. If you know anyone aged four through ten, please ask them to come—let me know if you’re coming, and I can probably get you discount tickets.
Stephen Sislen, my frequent collaborator, wrote a terrific song for the TV show Johnny and the Sprites with the lyricist Alisa Klein. Their song is called "My Lucky Day" and it was on Episode 9 of season 2; you can find it on iTunes.
I'm writing a book called THE WORST CASE SCENARIO POCKET GUIDE TO NEW YORK for Quirk Books. You may have seen the other "Worst Case" books -- the game is, very practical advice for terrible, unforeseeable situations (such as, in the case of my book, being run over by a hot dog cart). Due out in Spring 2009.
Branson, Missouri, magical showplace of the American midwest, will soon have a production of BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO, the Neil Sedaka musical I co-wrote a couple years ago with Erik Jackson (from an idea by Gordon Greenberg and Marsh Hanson). Other upcoming BREAKING UP productions include one in Kansas City, one in Eugene, Oregon, and one this summer at the Ogunquit Playhouse up in Maine.
I am a writer who lives in Brooklyn with all the other writers.
I am represented as a playwright & librettist by Ron Gwiazda at the Abrams Agency; I am represented as a prose writer by Molly Lyons at Joelle Delbourgo Associates; I am represented at the United Nations, like all Americans, by Zalmay Khalizad.
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