Week Two of Grey Gardens rehearsals.  We’ve finished staging the play, and have another week and a half to build the layers, cement the harmonies and get the dance steps into the actors’ bodies.  A week and half before we land on stage to add lights and sound.
Amy Palomino is staging the musical numbers and [...]

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{photo by Owen Carey. Storm sings Call Me Crazy, one of the 8 brand new songs unveiled for the show.}
So we finally invited audiences in to see Crazy Enough and we’re already getting tons of email responses.  Donna wrote:
 ”My daughter and I saw the show on Tuesday and it was one of the most real [...]

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So last week began with the introduction of the musicans for Crazy Enough into the rehearsal hall.  We had asked to add them a little earlier than usual, since so much of the interplay between Storm, the music and the text had to be worked out between the plays. 

I had met the uber-cool Jim Brunberg [...]

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First rehearsal for Crazy Enough yesterday.  We read through the whole piece, and listened to the music on the newly minted CD, so that we could hear what the instrumentation will sound like.

Storm and James have written four new songs for the piece since this past Summer.  One happened out of necessity when David Bowie’s [...]

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Just back from several days in NYC casting for Grey Gardens.   One of the best groups of talent we’ve seen.  Lots of excitement from actors about getting to work on such rich material.

Harriett Bass, our wonderful casting director (pictured here with Marv – Rick Lewis, our wonderful musical director’s partner) assembled a great group.  Among [...]

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