No news

Have to prepare Cathy and Boy for this weekend to submit to the MMD musical reading program. I need to fix Cathy's lyrics and have to get Emily to learn "Boy" as soon as possible. R.C. Has rewritten the lyrics so that the parts I had prepared for chorus are to be sung by Pat and Neil, two characters with the same vocal range. Joy.

Back On Track

Will be the power ballad from Zombie Wedding!

Ratfans!

Not blogged in a fair few.
Got a Zombie Wedding reading tomorrow so am being kept up preparing demo mp3s for that, nearly done, but passed the midnight limit for a daily blog, so there might have to be two blogs today.
They are going to read from Cathy all the way through to the beginning of the misfortunately titled "All You Need Is The Girl". Hopefully the singers will do a better job performing the music than last time, I've set the songs a little lower in the singing register and they specially requested the mp3s to get a rehearsal done before the reading, which is very nice of them I must say, and I really should put together mp3s more often than when I feel like sending something to RC.

I made a frightening discovery the other day, R.C. and I have only really got five songs for ZW done. Sure Dream Wedding is a big song, but only five, of about twelve, and I hoped to get it done before Christmas! Yikes, I think since R.C. has a real job and I'm a little hesitant about jumping in a starting songs without him we have come to such a stalemate. In reality I should just do some music, but which, and why, and how? I can really see how I got stuck procrastinating on this for a year; too much to do.

Monday blues

Have loads of work to do, need to have an integrated score ready to give to the ANMT people by tomorrow at the latest. No time for a blog. No CEP news but I can officially say that the investigative part of the CEP is pretty much over, we have 50 gold comments and emails referring to the people and that is a manageable amount. Now comes the writing.

Sunday might be a funday from now on

... because I'm starting a blog with my friend and Westminster insider Tom. I don't mean blog though, I mean podcast! :D.

Got loads of work to do to get "Boy He Will Surprise You" rehearsal ready for Tuesday for an LA reading with ANMT, and an improved version of 'Grab A Shovel'

Friday Evening

Nothing much to say. In wake of yesterday's Zombie wedding dramaturgical feedback session I decided it was time to give the script an overhaul. yes it's not my job but there are certain ideas I have, lyrics and such that I have been withholding for no reason and it's probably not helping to do so, so I'm going through the script and doing all the stuff that I (by the right of someone who has secondary say in the script) can really do.

iWeb Pages is wicked for putting contents pages and such together, and I hope the hard work I'm doing formalising the script will work in R.C.'s Microsoft Word, and I hope he wont just redo the pretty changes.

Decemberween!

Man I'm tired.
A meer wee RE ZW for today I'm afraid.

Met up with a Mr John Sparks, dramaturge and musical theatre development person in some hotel bar to talk for a couple of hours in London. I had to go all the way to strange old Leicester Square. I tell you what central London is a land of contrasts; expensive hotels and shitty doorless shops that sell "I <3 London" hoodies, mental people talking at their dogs through a coiled up Metro and people with lesser mental impairments. Mr Sparks had good, insightful things to say and I promptly left him the bill for my coffee as I ran for my train home. London's just dirty.