Tag: musical writing
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Coming soon!
Book and Lyrics by Mark W. Sasse Music by Hui Min Tang, Clarissa Lister, Elisabeth Brokaw, Hannah Graves, David Beak, & Mark W. Sasse
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Jumping Deep into My Next Musical
I’m producing and directing an original musical entitled “A Tad of Trouble.” I originally wrote the book and music to it back in 2008 with a group of students. We produced it in 2009 to very favorable reviews. For the past couple of years, I’ve been wanting to re-do it. To make it better. To…
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“A Woman at War” – My Musical Opens Today in Kuala Lumpur
I’m very excited about the 10 minute musical that I wrote which was chosen for production in the Short & Sweet Musical Festival KL 2014. It opens tonight at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre, and will be showing through Saturday along with five other musicals. I’ll be flying down to KL on Friday and…
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Short & Sweet Musical: My composition’s up first during week one!
The news out of the Short & Sweet KL Musical Festival is that they have posted the running order of the show for week one. My musical “A Woman at War” which I wrote and co-composed the music with Laura Danneker is up first during the first week of the festival. I’m super excited to…
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Revisiting an Old Script and Loving It
Kerry Livgren, composer and musician for the 70s progressive rock group Kansas (and always one of my favorites – check out Proto-Kaw), once said that he loved the opportunity to re-record a track that he had written. In essence, anyway that it can be improved he loved to do it. Well, I made a determination…
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“Boardwalk Melody: The Musical” – Here we go!
I’m privileged to work with an amazing group of high school kids who love the dramatic arts. Thursday, we start the production phase of our original, full-length musical “Boardwalk Melody.” The writing phase ended in December. Well, I should make a few qualifications. The book part of the musical if finished; I wrote that with…
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I’m Writing a Full-Length Musical!
I’m feeling ambitious – or stupid. Only time will settle the duel. I’ve decided to go all out this year and create, from scratch, a full-length, full-blown, Broadway style musical for my dramatic production in May 2014. No, I’m not doing this alone. I’m working with a fun and talented group of motivated high school…
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