One year ago today, Danny and I released the Regretting Almost Everything (Concept Album) starring Beth Leavel and Jeff Blumenkrantz.
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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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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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Before I wrote the lyrics for “It’s Normal,” I met with an acquaintance who’s a marital counselor and sex therapist.
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In the libretto for the musical — as distinguished from the album — Blind Date is the first song and Do It All Again is the last song. We made Blind Date a bonus track on the album because we thought it would be confusing to open with it on the album.
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There are five songs about being a parent or grandparent in Regretting:
We Made Kids , Waiting Up, Elle, The Baby Likes Me Best, and Fatherhood. Below are the lyrics to our first single, We Made Kids:
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Making an album doesn’t end when the album itself is made. That’s only part one. Part two is letting people know the album exists.
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Danny 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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Beth Leavel & Jeff Blumenkrantz to be Featured on REGRETTING ALMOST EVERYTHING Concept Album
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