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:
Read MoreJeff Blumenkrantz. Forget “triple threat.” He’s the ultimate threat: Singer, Actor, Dancer (?), Comedian, Composer, Lyricist, Musician, and virtuosic in all areas. And so goddamn smart!
Read MoreIn the weeks leading up to the first cabaret performance of Regretting Almost Everything, there came a day Bill asked us to play through what we had. We did. When we’d finished, Bill said we were missing two things:
Read MoreDanny and I met at NYU in 2015. We were classmates, members of Cycle 26 of the MFA program in musical theatre writing. When we began writing together in William Finn’s class, we never could have guessed that songs we wrote in response to Bill’s prompts were the beginning of what is now, Regretting Almost Everything. Nor would we have dared to dream that one day, two of Broadway’s greatest, Beth Leavel and Jeff Blumenkrantz, would record some of those songs.
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