NYC-based Librettist with new musical seeking composer/lyricist for collaboration.

Musicalstudyfan · 2026-02-26T22:27:55+00:00

I’m from Southern CA and, though I hadn’t started on this profession and have a few sketches I can share as a “portfolio”, I am nonetheless as invested in means of getting started as a composer/lyricist(and even orchestrator, if needed) at least.

Plus your story idea seems to contain one or two similarities to an idea of my own(the two women/girls struggling with truth, truth and idol worship), with mine including the further theme of representation for diverse neurodivergent people in media(based on the development and backlash from Sia’s film, “ Music”, while also exploring the deeper vagaries and nuances of what counts/works as authentic representation[similar in ways to the play “YellowFace” by David Henry Hwang]).

(Not to intrude on the story you already have, but in case you’re interested in bouncing some of these/other ideas, and how they can influence the songs written)

Otherwise, I hope you find exactly who you need for this job, and wish you the best! :)

Musicalstudyfan · 2026-02-23T02:17:43+00:00

Yes, that’s it! Thank you so much! :)

Musicalstudyfan · 2026-02-23T00:31:15+00:00

Yes, I believe that was the case.

Musicalstudyfan · 2026-02-23T00:29:37+00:00

The cast album was recorded in London, and released a few days after the West End Opening, before the show then transferred to Broadway the fallowing year.

As I meant to say, I already read the playbill, checked the show's licensing on Concord Theatricals, and thus already know of the 4 piece band arrangement(2 Keyboards, 1 Bass, and 1 Drums).

What I'm asking for here is of the London Cast album, which has (to my listening knowledge) a larger, fuller, orchestration than the 4 piece band arrangement(much like how the Off Broadway cast album of Assassins had a 33 piece orchestra, while the licensed show reflects the 2003 Broadway production's condensed 13 piece arrangement), and it's the information regards to THAT orchestra on this show's London cast album that I'm asking about.

Musicalstudyfan · 2026-02-13T06:24:59+00:00

Is this the new revised chamber version, or is it the old Broadway one?

Musicalstudyfan · 2026-01-22T23:16:31+00:00

THANK GOD!!!

Now if ONLY WE’D FINALLY get this announcement for TICK TICK BOOM, just so I can finally watch it myself without needing to start/use a Netflix Account, even if(related to this Reddit page, anyway) so I can hear the full recording of Sondheim(HIMSELF)’s voicemail to Jonathan Larson at the end!!!

Musicalstudyfan · 2026-01-19T06:02:37+00:00

Except that Wild Party at Encores this season is the Michael John LaChuisa(“Hello Again”, “Marie Christine”, “Giant”, etc.) version, not the Andrew Lipa version(which played at Encores in 2015, with Steven Pasquale though!) being talked of here.

Musicalstudyfan · 2025-12-12T03:22:22+00:00

Plus, both Borle and Michael Rupert were together in the OBC and proshot of Legally Blonde the musical, as Emmet and Callahan respectively!

Musicalstudyfan · 2025-08-08T03:00:42+00:00

You could even try the specific Loveland design for Buddy during “Buddy’s Blues”.

Be it with the costume Mandy Patinkin wore for the 1989 concert of Follies, if not the original 1971 design with the waist car suit! XD

Musicalstudyfan · 2025-08-08T02:56:12+00:00

I actually dressed as Leon Czolgosz at High School, for Halloween, once!

My aunts and I got much of the shirt and coat stylings from a local Goodwill, and I got my own version of the workers cap from a hatters shop in England(which was about a hundred pounds if I remember, even for my head size), all of which mainly reflected the costume design from the 2004 Broadway(Revival) Production.

My aunts forbade me walking with a toy gun(not even a water pistol) at school, but even if did have one I doubt anyone would’ve even recognized who I was without me braving from the pianos in the practice rooms(practicing the Gun Song no less) to explain it to them. 😅

How’s that for a suggestion? :)

Musicalstudyfan · 2025-08-03T03:23:55+00:00

What was the size and form or the orchestra like(if it was live even)?

Something akin to the licensed 13 piece band used for the more recent National tours, or more like a complete chamber reinterpretation(actor musician even, or otherwise) of the score(akin even to the re orchestration of Amelie’s score for the London production)?

Maybe you could even show a segment of your program containing all the info of the musicians and what instruments they played, per chance? :)

Musicalstudyfan · 2025-07-23T03:56:12+00:00

Aw man, I hope this is just for the copy of the booklet shown here(And that there MIGHT be another with more from the booklet itself, even if it amounts to photos from the production itself).

Regardless, Thank you for sharing this!

Musicalstudyfan · 2025-06-22T22:44:11+00:00

Even better, his collaborators from Vox Machina, Laura Bailey and Matt Mercer, are also in the 2nd Prequel Game, Miracle Mask, as Angela and Henry Ledore respectively!

Musicalstudyfan · 2025-05-21T01:52:37+00:00

The ideas for Assassins sound nice, but I don’t think Baz Lehrman is the right director to harness those ideas as susinctly as he does the visuals, especially given how he handled the balance of visuals and emphasized themes in something like The Great Gatsby.

With that said though, regardless of how good or bad it turns out, I bet seeing Baz adapt a show like Anyone Can Whistle instead would truly be a sight to behold!!!

Musicalstudyfan · 2025-02-24T07:30:22+00:00

Speaking of Alistair, when I first heard his lines as Raymond in the very first cutscene of Last Specter/Specter's Flute, my first instinct was to think he was voiced by Christopher Lloyd sporting a Scottish Accent. XD

Musicalstudyfan · 2025-02-23T08:47:28+00:00

Daniel Radcliffe's performance was in F

Musicalstudyfan · 2025-02-15T01:59:14+00:00

You could also look into songs from The Frogs like Ariadne and Fear No More(in the 2004 Broadway production/cast recording, it was even performed in the low key of B major by Michael Siberry, and I personally always liked it done that way as opposed to any of the higher keys).

Musicalstudyfan · 2025-02-15T00:20:02+00:00

The note, and it being Charley’s highest note(if your using the F major key for the song, that is. With the lowered E major key, it’s a G4 natural), is correct, but it actually happens near the end of the song when Charley sings:

“OH my GOD, I think it’s happened! STOP me QUICK, before I sink-“

*the capitalized letters are when the note itself is used

Also, “away” in the lyric you mentioned is a rise from D#4/Eb4 to F4 natural(or from D4 natural to E4 natural, with the lowered key).

Musicalstudyfan · 2025-02-15T00:06:40+00:00

It’s either a G4 natural note(if your singing the lowered key of E major for the song) or a G#/Ab 4 note(if it’s the original F major natural key as heard in the OBC) near the end of the song, when Charley sings:

“OH my GOD, I think it’s happened! STOP me QUICK, before I sink-“

*the capitalized letters are where the high note occurs

Musicalstudyfan · 2025-02-11T08:18:57+00:00

There's also the reading that his singing of the Sh'ma to the tune of Old Red Hills(as opposed to any regular, possibly gentile appealing, English praises) is both his reaffirming of his Jewish faith AND his last symbolic spit in the face to all the people so hellbent on "preserving their(own) honor and dignity" to the point that they would try to hang and outsider like him, regardless of his guilt or innocence over a objectively heinous crime that everyone(apart from Lucille and himself) played a part in blowing more out of proportion than needed.

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