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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....
Do you read me?? What is readability?
After spending the last 3 years editing and updating my musical “The Golden Cage,” music director Tim Maurice and I are diving into the process of editing another musical of mine, “The Zero Club.” It’s a musical about a troupe of anti-nuclear guerrilla-theater...
Speed Dating with Producers & Writers
I was in NYC just one week ago today for a “Writer-Producer” speed date presented by the “Theater Resources Unlimited” (TruOnline.org) folks. It was GREAT!!! Despite the fact that I locked myself out of my cellphone (I recommend NOT ever doing...
The Golden Cage: Project Update
The last month has been an intense one working on my musical “The Golden Cage.” After a NYC reading earlier this year, I started rewriting the beginning and ending of the show. After NYC reading, I started rewriting the beginning & ending of the show....
PlayActing
PlayActing. It’s how I’ve been writing music since I was a kid. I act it out. I play all the parts, and completely indulge myself in the emotions and physicalization. And now that I’m working on (hopefully final) revisions of “The Golden Cage,” pianist &...
DHC’s PLUCK Harp Cabaret at the Regent Underground
TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Four Shows: Aug. 10 – 13 at the Regent Underground in Arlington, MA 7 Medford Street ~ Arlington, MA CLICK HERE to buy LIVE Ticket NOW! No time to buy now but want to get reminders? Click here to get on the First-to-Know List CLICK HERE to...
The Human Harp Stand ~ Electra’s Lyre
When I pack for tour, I have to get EVERYTHING into two 50-lb bags – and I mean everything … including my instrument. So when the Sensoria Festival invited me to perform a piece from my one-woman musical “Electra’s Lyre” at my April 11th...
