One year ago today, Danny and I released the Regretting Almost Everything (Concept Album) starring Beth Leavel and Jeff Blumenkrantz.
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Elle (Acoustic Version) featuring the incredible Beth Leavel is available on ALL streaming services.
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Happy New Year! Welcome to the first blog post of 2024. (I know you’ve been waiting for it.)
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Today we released a version of “Elle” sung from a different perspective: When Beth sings the song on the album, she is Elle’s grandmother. This new recording is sung by Amy Weintraub, a young woman. She sings as Elle’s mom.
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How Do You Measure A Marriage? (Acoustic Version) dropping this week!
Prepare to be blown away by Beth’s gorgeous rendition of How do You Measure a Marriage with a completely new accompaniment! PRE-SAVE HERE
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How Do You Measure a Marriage? (Acoustic Version) dropping Oct 27th
We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming release of the How Do You Measure a Marriage? (Acoustic version), once again featuring the incomparable Beth Leavel.
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As promised in the last post, here’s the count of female creatives on upcoming Broadway shows:
Not counting the Melissa Ethridge show, there are 23 writers of book, music and/or lyrics on the 10 upcoming Broadway musicals announced as of 10.2.23. Of the 23, 4 are women, 19 are men.
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Regretting Almost Everything is a two-person musical comedy with book and lyrics by an older woman who sees the world through the lens of motherhood.
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After you’ve come up with the spine of a scene, a challenge unique to writing the book of a musical is deciding what’s spoken and what’s sung, and how to move between the two. Where does the music start?
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Regretting Almost Everything is two-person musical comedy about marriage. Clay’s passion for Anne has waned, and she needs more. Anne has to tell Clay how she feels, and he has to respond, in song.
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There are two writers to whom I return for inspiration and solace when I’m writing:
Sarah Ruhl and Rick Rubin.
When it comes to writing a musical, Danny and I find the book is the hardest thing to get right. And though I’ve lost track of how many musicals I’ve written, one thing I know is that the process of writing the book is different every time.
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It’s not surprising that a two-person musical comedy about marriage would include lots of duets. In fact, if you’re looking for musical comedy duets, go no further.
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Has anyone – everyone? – read “The Creative Act: A Way of Being,” by Rick Rubin? I’ve read it twice now. For me, it was, and continues to be, the right book at the right time. From time to time, I pick it up and open to a random page. I did that this morning. Things I read:
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People often wonder whether there are particular musical theatre writers who have influenced my work. For me, the lyricist who has most influenced my work is Sheldon Harnick.
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You know what would be the coolest thing ever? The Regretting Almost Everything (Concept Album) getting nominated for Best Musical Theatre Album of the Year.
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One reason we go to the theatre is to be validated; to see something happen on stage that makes us feel like shouting “Yes! That’s it! That is how it felt. I’m not crazy. I’m not alone.”
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When we first did Regretting Almost Everything at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret at Barrington Stage in August of 2017, there was no libretto, and it fell on me to act as host and narrator.
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