Final Sing and Tell

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Canadian Musical Theater Collage

So we had our final Sing and Tell...sniff...sniff...


And what a crowd. The first session I attended there were eight people. This time around twenty five! And there was pizza and wine! We listened to everyone's songs and then we spent some time talking about next steps for ScriptLab and Canadian musical theater.

Leslie Arden played the song "You" from Moll, and "If I Were A Man" from her musical based on Much Ado About Nothing, set in 1945. The latter has just been picked up to be produced in Chicago! Congrats Leslie! Joey Miller played a CD of a song from his new musical Carnival (a Brazillian take on Oliver!) to be workshopped with Kelly Robinson at Mirvish Productions. Very peppy indeed!

And I did "Turbulence" from Plane Crazy.

Lots and lots of excellent work, incredibly diverse in style. But I'd have to say the highlight of the evening was Michael Rubinoff, there as a producer, who did "Brand New Me" from David Warrack's first revue Oops!. He had gone to the library and listened to the LP recording (what's an LP?) of the show over and over again to copy down the lyrics. Then he got David to dig up the lead sheet from his basement stash. Very funny song.

Interesting gripe from Leslie about Canstage. Turns out when you do a workshop there, they sit on the rights for two years. It would be okay if they actively worked it and pushed it, but they just sit on it like they are hatching an egg! No wonder she's excited about working in Chicago again!

I'm looking forward to hearing what ScriptLab is going to do!
By Suzy Conn on February 8, 2005 10:01 PM | | Comments (0)


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