Posts Tagged ‘W.O. Saunders’
2010!
Things are already taking shape for 2010. I’d just like to take this opportunity to say thank you to a few people who have helped me over the past year: I got a lot of help with documentation and copies of newspapers for my musical, The Independent Man. I’d like to give a special thanks to Chris Meekins, Brian Edwards, and Tom & Mary Cherry for their help in this area.
Lots of things to do this year: finish the recording of the musical, script revisions, hopefully an album or two of new material… who knows?
Please keep in touch and if you’re interested in W.O. Saunders please check out the page here about the musical based on his life. My goal for this year is to get interest and funding to give the musical a staged reading or a workshop performance. If you would like to read the script or listen to the rough score please contact me.
Best,
Brian
First draft of – The Independent Man – done!
The big news this week is that I finished the first draft of my musical, THE INDEPENDENT MAN.
I actually finished the writing over Labor Day weekend (the 30th anniversary of the day I moved to NYC to write musicals).
And by the way, big thanks to Chris Meekins, Brian Edwards and Tom & Mary Cherry for supplying me with books, articles and newspapers about the life of W.O. Saunders.
I’m cleaning up the score, starting on the incidental (underscore) music, and trying to get everything ready so I can have “real” singers perform the songs. Right now, I’m singing all the parts – not ideal.
One thing I have found out by writing this show is this: it’s a lot more work than I ever expected AND, you’ll be surprised how much you can accomplish if you DO work.
This has taken up a major portion of my time this year and there’s still a ton of work to do… and that’s even before the struggle of trying to get people interested and having any kind of staged reading or production. It’s going to be a long haul…but you know what? I love it.
You can read my synopsis under MUSIC-THE INDEPENDENT MAN
Please let me hear from you: brian@brianhobbsmusic.com
