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How Artist Ellen Lebow helps me tell my story … over decades
In January we had the final reading of my musical “The Golden Cage”, videotaped it on two new iPhone 11’s … and then spent 6 weeks trying to figure out how to get the video off the !#@$$! phones. Finally, in desperation, I reached out to Eclipse Video in...
The Golden Cage Rehearsals (Photoblog)
We Come Alive through Others I’ve been working on my fantasy musical, “The Golden Cage,” for what seems like forever – and this week we finally started the Workshop Phase! The 2-Character musical is about a Bird-Man who’s been searching...
Artist Sketches of The Golden Cage (including mine!)
When I create a show, I almost always work with an visual artist who brings the show alive for me visually with original illustrations. But first I draw them myself. In this video I’m showing you the drawings I made for “The Golden Cage” and then how...
12-Minutes in the Golden Cage – A Musical Synopsis
This is a ‘work-video’ of my musical “The Golden Cage” that I made for my development collaborator, Paul Gordon. It’s a 12-minute ‘short story’ version – or musical synopsis – of the 75-minute, 2-character show....
Ute’s “In the Wings”
I originally wrote my one-woman show “In the Wings (or “What the Hell are you Doing in the Waiting Room for Heaven??”)” in 2008 for a premier at the the Central Square Theater in Cambridge. A year later I performed it in a full-cast version in Seattle. After that...
What is DONE? Completing “The Golden Cage”
Sometimes you have to crash and burn before you learn to fly You gotta burn your fear in that fire Sometimes you have to lose your way before you find you heart Then you go higher and higher and higher … Then you fly … Little by little I’m moving...
Finding the Golden Cage … again
I’ve been up burning the midnight oil, and editing “The Golden Cage” a musical I’ve been working on for over 40 years. Tonight I was editing the audio cuts so they work better with the script. Because, as of last week, I now have a script. Tonight I was...
Blood, gore, humor & romance for Valentine’s Day Weekend
There’s blood, and gore, and humor and romance … and you might want to wear a poncho. But you will definitely have fun at Whole Tone Opera’s “La Zombiata” this Valentine’s Day weekend. How do I know? I went to Whole Tone Opera Company’s Dress Rehearsal...
