A Quick Musical Update

11/12/2023

Welcome! The next part of our show’s development continues in the recording studio, as we captured the vocal talents of Kimi Galang Villegas and Nicole Stanley. We look forward to sharing those demos with you in the upcoming weeks!

Kimi Galang Villegas singing the role of Shoshanna.

Nicole Stanley singing the role of Jac.

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And here’s our piece, “Kindred Spirit,” as the character Kat is trying to contact a lost soul. (Performed by Valerie Golobic.)

Music as a Show's Language

10/01/2023

Welcome! To understand our next step, we need to go back a little and convey some previous parts of the show’s development. We’ll start with the music.

One could say that the language of any musical exists in the show’s script. After all, a libretto or musical play’s language exists in the dialogue. But in the case of musicals, it also exists with song, and sometimes dance.

So when we were seeking the rights to adapt the book in 2018, we “pitched” or “auditioned” what we felt was the DNA of the show: three songs. (These can be found on the Songs tab in the menu.) When we were granted the rights, we then spent the next few years developing the work with more music until it was fully realized into the form it is today, a full script and 18 songs.

And something else.

The musical demos were very much a part of the development process as well. The orchestration has been on the composer’s mind since day one, keeping the texture of the musical world that the characters inhabit.

So things went from page:

To musical page:

To a fully-realized, orchestrated demo:

In our next installment, more about the show’s development and how music plays an important part.