THREE SHOW DAY

When you are prolific and have lots of shows and are lucky (luck?!) enough to have productions of those shows you have to learn to juggle. Today I juggled three. Tomorrow rehearsals begin for Rock Odyssey in Miami for the second time this year. What an amazing turn of events. This show was commissioned 7 years ago for the brand new Walden Family Playhouse in Denver, run by Walden Media. The company treated the commission like a film script. I did several treatments, drafts, collaborated with a wonderful composer/lyricist (I only did the book but "guided" the songs) via phone, email and smoke signals and ultimately it was the first of two seasons of original family musicals they presented (I was commissioned to do another called Merlin's Apprentice) and for that one I did only lyrics! So now after the rights reverted to the authors, suddenly Rock Odyssey is a big hit with all the Dade Country 5th Graders! Now they want a ten year deal to do it all over. Ten years! Well, we shall see...Anyway, it's nice to be wanted...now if I can only get them to do Saturday Night at Grossinger's for the Jewish fifth graders...after all, it's Miami!