JRBlog

In any composer’s official biography, by which I mean the self-written essay which is included in the Playbill or inside the press kit or on the website.

I’ve spent the last four days writing the opening number to Honeymoon In Vegas.

I’m in the house today making rehearsal tapes for the cast members of the really exciting production of Songs for a New World that we’re doing next month, and it put me in mind of the origins of some of this material.

Soon after I got to New York, I passed by the Broadhurst Theater and noticed that a new play by Neil Simon was opening.

This week marks the first time since May of 2001 that I’ve had a new show go into rehearsal for a production.

I get a lot of requests for clarifications in the texts and scores of my shows, and more rarely I get e-mails asking for changes in a lyric or a key, but every once in a while, I get a letter like the one below, one which suggests an improvement for one of my shows and permission to implement it.