Perhaps Airborne Toxic Event can be the house band.
Joe recently friended my band on myspace, with no knowledge of the unfogged connection. It was funny.
Wow. Good for him. That's awesome. When do we get to crash the cast party?
What 1 said. That's excellent news.
Oh, that's so great. Congratulations! Huge smiles all around.
Hooray!
I sat there for several slow moments thinking that the show was an adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel. But it isn't. Hooray!
I'm happy and proud for Joe. Hurrah!
I've seen this show, or at least a previous incarnation of it. Who wants to bask in my reflected glory?
Way to go, Joe.
But it isn't. Hooray!
Oh, if that's the case, then Hooray! from me, too.
I was not relishing the notion of a DeLillo musical.
Dude, check out this poster for the new James Bond movie. I mean, WTF??? I can NOT believe they let them show that in a poster!
I was not relishing the notion of a DeLillo musical.
(And congratulations to Joe, of course!)
I was going to link to this song from the musical, which I'm still waiting for Lou Dobbs or similar to hear and adopt earnestly, not realizing its source.
19: No, no, we're collaborating. Like an old married couple.
This is, indeed, excellent news. Felicitations!
If Jo-D needs some musician understudies, I should think that FL, ttaM, and I would be willing to step forward, though I doubt any of us holds a union card for the Local 802. Perhaps it's just the opportunity we've been waiting for to petition for membership.
21 - Meaning you say something and then I but right in.
25 - Thanks for uploading it, Ben! Now we have a good mp3 version up -- EVEN BETTER FOR DOBBSING.
The links in 15, 16, and 20 are all very good and important.
...and holy shit! The Gaede twins! How come no one ever told me about those little darlings?
re: 22
Yes! Does it pay well? Will there be screaming fans?
The one time I did a theatre 'pit band' gig [for the Threepenny Opera] I made the mistake of doing it essentially for free.
30: In my experience, pit-band gigs pay shit, but I live in union-hatin', right-to-work land. I've always presumed the NYC-Broadway scene pays decent coin, but you do have to join up, which I've never looked into.
re: 31
This was a mostly student production [although in a big theatre and in front of a sell-out audience] so I don't think anyone except the full-time theatre staff got paid. I did it for the experience.
I wouldn't do it again. Turns out Weill's music is bloody hard to sight-read and a lot more practice/rehearsal was needed than I anticipated. It did sound great, though.
A couple of friends [here in the UK] have done semi-pro 'pit' gigs and I think it pays OK.
Dudes. Thank you guys so much.
It's not exactly ideal; I have mixed feelings toward this one, and the current draft doesn't even contain a whole lot of my work. But, this producer is crazy interested in it, and I have no doubt he's going to try and get it up in some form. And, I'm pretty sure my songs are all in there. I'm not positive, though, since Ryan and I aren't really involved in this production (odd as that might seem, since we created the show).
Excellent news! Wouldn't ttaM's energies be better spent putting a European company together to take it into the West End?
Congratulations, hope it does work out.
Blanche and Eva prove themselves to be masters of the most terrifying and unstoppable form of Fascism in today's culture: Top Forty pop.
Who could disagree?
The Gaede twins! How come no one ever told me about those little darlings?
I tried, Wrongshore. But did you listen? No, you did not.
39. wtf fuck with the comment thread on that, apo?
Yay Jody!
So what do we do to introduce this song to Lou Dobbs? Where do we send the robots?
I've always presumed the NYC-Broadway scene pays decent coin,
I just heard some interviews on NPR with musicians from the B'way Phantom of the Opera orchestra. I think they said they make about $1200 a week when they play all the shows, and are only required to play half. So the theatre work subsidizes more adventurous music for a lot of them. How long has that show been running? Some of them had been there from the start. They study languages or do Sudoku until it's their turn to play.
I think they said they make about $1200 a week when they play all the shows, and are only required to play half.
I once did some work for a major concert venue. One of the big problems they had was deliberate absenteeism. The scam went like this: if a musician was sick, the venue had to hire someone for the substitute's list for about 2X the normal performance fee, in addition to paying sick pay to the regular musician. The musician who called in sick would often "helpfully" suggest a substitute of his/her own acquaintance. In reality, the substitute had a regular position in another orchestra 50 miles away, and was sicking out from his/her own performance on the same night. So the two musicians would effectively switch places, and each would earn 3X the normal wage.
43: I wish that worked for graphic design.
BTW, check out the comment thread on the youtube link in 20.
I wonder if the actresses who played the little Nazi girls will spend the rest of their lives fighting off Nazi admirers, being confronted by angry liberals, and being asked what went through their minds during the events in the musical, and so on.
I mean, this is America, where reality is #2.
Blanche and Eva prove themselves to be masters of the most terrifying and unstoppable form of Fascism in today's culture: Top Forty pop.
It's like fascism made of ... candy! Mm. Sweet, sweet, fascism.
(OT: Is Bush getting hammered at the Olympics or is he just being his usual idiotic self?)
Congrats, Joe!
Judging from the YouTube comments, lots of people aren't getting it.
Congrats, Joe!
The guy really, really looks plowed to me. There were 8 or 10 pictures of him being goofy, plus two of him falling down.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. Alcoholism is the very least of Bush's problems.
In at least one picture, daughter Not-Jenna looks disgusted and embarassed. Nothing fazes Pickles, though. Her Joker smile never leaves her face.
APA encouraged to finally come out against professional involvement in torture.
Free idea for a futuristic short story: a historian in 2708, whose specialty is the burgeoning field of pre-apocalyptic history, is studying the little-known period of the early 21st century. Because so few records from the period survive, the field is riven by historiographical controversies about the events leading up to the cataclismic near-extinction of humankind. The protagonist of the story serindipitously discovers the archive of his dreams: a perfectly preserved digital storage medium (most were erased during the Great Electromagnetic Firestorm) containing the entire contents of youtube, including millions of text entries associated with the videos. The story ends with the protagonist humiliating his professional rival by discrediting his rival's (to us plausible sounding) theory on the basis of wildly misinterpreted evidence from the youtube comments section.
Why hasn't the only blog that matters updated the Yglesias link?
Because nobody clicks the links here?
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Wobegonian bathing beauties of 90 years ago.
All locals, of whom I have met one, but at that time Wobegon was a destination resort for Minneapolis high society. The 90-year-old daughter of one of these women approved of the picture.
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score by Joe Drymala with additional songs by Ben Cohn and Sean McDaniel, Rick Crom, Glen Kelly, Laurence O'Keefe, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and Eric Svejcar.
That's a whole lot of additional songs.
Way to go Joe!!
Years ago I offered to get one of his shows produced locally and he was holding out for Broadway. I am so tickled pink that he has made it!! He has helped me behind the scenes with some theatre stuff and he deserves every success! Now I'm wishing I got him to sign my script along with Jeff McCarthy of Urinetown fame. Maybe there is still time.
Threadjack:
I'll put up a post when I get home, or if someone else beats me to it that's good too. Chopper's going to be in NY Tuesday evening, and suggests a meetup. Because I am nothing if not in a rut, I think Fresh Salt would be a good place, but anyone else who's going to show up who has a better idea should pipe up.
"I am in nothing if not a rut" would be more felicitous.
I am nothing if not in a rut
That's a curious choice of timing to meet up with your imaginary friends from the Internets.
Further to 59: especially when you're married to a guy named "Buck".
Jackmormon!
Hey, JMo, how does one reach you by e-mail?
No, no, Tuesday a week from today.
Congratulations Joe!
I will always cherish the memory of you calling me a little bitch.
57: I'll go ahead and main-page it, LB.
Is there any chance Joe can stop by here so we can gush or give him grief or whatever?
I'm a good gusher and grief giver.
Hey, JMo, how does one reach you by e-mail?
Why, one simply puts my real first name and real last name in front of "gmail.com." Alternatively, you could give me your email address, and I'll contact you.
I'm a good gusher
They have medications for that.
