Musical stories in fantastical worlds
CLICK HERE TO BUY NOW Welcome everyone to the grand premiere of the entire album The Dolls Of New Albion, A Steampunk Opera. This 90 minute, 4 Act slightly demented musical story features the immense vocal talents of Lauren Osborn, […]
The Sultan’s Elephant is a show, specifically a piece of marionette street theater featuring a giant mechanical elephant. It was created in 2004 by the French theater company Royal de Luxe to commemorate the centenary of Jules Verne’s death and commissioned by […]
In continuing our recent discussion about the Penny Dreadfuls that populated the Victorian era, it’s worth pointing out that almost all of the popular characters who once defined the era, Spring Heeled Jack, Varney the Vampire, Dick Turpin, Ching Ching, […]
While i grew up with musicals, at a certain point after loving them to death, i started to hate them with a passion. Trying to reconcile this leads to the type of musical i write. It also means, especially now […]
Well this is quite interesting. So yet ANOTHER steampunk opera has arisen (there is already a second one in addition to mine, Queen Victoria’s Floating Garden of Secrets and Natural Wonders. I’ve posted on it before but if you can also […]
This is how to do it. In my discussing this whole “beef up Priscilla thing” i thought i’d show a video that exemplifies how to do what i wish to do…. perfectly. In a video which combines all 3 ‘Cinderella After […]
On a periphery from evil clowns, we’re going to feature the closest thing to an evil clown character i’ve made. Today’s track is from another show i wrote and toured in the States (It’s actually slowly gearing up for another […]
In 1908, 31 years before the movie The Wizard Of Oz, when the Oz books were fresh and the Harry Potter of their day, an astonishing multimedia show involving live actors, film and hand tilted magic lantern slides toured the […]
One old genre of theater i am absolutely fascinated with is the old Italian and French Commedia Dell’arte, where travelling theater troupes went town to town performing improvisational comedy plays before the crowds. Instead of the written comedies of the Greek and […]
The past week’s discussion on Tragedy was definitely more for me than for you. Most of what i learned and ruminated on were not put down in these posts, as i would research, write and only afterwards, at night, really […]