music and tales
Ask me what book i’m reading. Go ahead. Ask. Hard Times: The Adult Musical in 1970s New York City by Elizabeth Wollman, as if the title of this post wasn’t a dead give away. It is awesome and you should […]
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, […]
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 […]
If you were to ask me what my favorite musical of the past 20 years is, my answer is hands down immediate. Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog is one of my favorite things EVER. EVER. When i was stuck on how to […]
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 […]
I’m actually done musically with Act 3 and now working on vocal melodies and lyrics. I, of course, am not actually signing any of the material, but i sing all the lines on the scratch tracks so the vocalists will […]
The short novel ‘Goodbye To Berlin’ by Christopher Isherwood, usually published together with his other short novel ‘Mr. Norris Changes Trains’ as The Berlin Stories, is one of the most celebrated books written about the Weimar era, that classic explosion […]
Today we’re going to look at another show which i wrote sometime back, The Fallen. It’s a very different animal than the Steampunk Opera, but it too is a theater piece. It’s performed by 2 singers, 10 dancers and features […]
I sit here in a tine old, village house in the mountains of southern Serbia madly composing away. My wife has taken our beautiful little toddler to Belgrade in order for me to work uninterupted. I rise each morning, eat, […]
I am starting this blog in order to declare my intention to make a Steampunk Opera and to document the process. Hi. My name is Paul Shapera and I make music under the name Mocha Lab. I will be posting […]