Last night, Danny and I appeared on The Jim Master’s Show Live to talk about Regretting Almost Everything, our two-person musical comedy. Jim’s show is like an old-school talk show, long and conversational, and it was great.
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When you tell someone you’ve written a new musical comedy, the first question they ask is: You? (Just kidding.) The first thing they ask is: What’s it about?
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In 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:
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During our last semester at NYU, William Finn (Bill) offered Danny and me two nights in Mr. Finn’s Cabaret at Barrington Stage in Pittsfield, MA that coming August. He advised that we write what only I could write — a show about a long marriage.
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We love making musical theatre: Writing, re-writing, working with actors and other creatives, re-writing, rehearsing, re-writing, having our work performed, table reads, workshops, choreography labs.
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We first presented songs from Regretting Almost Everything at Mr. Finn’s cabaret at Barrington Stage in August of 2017. Though some have been significantly revised, 10 of them are still in the show and on the concept 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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