So many thoughts about musicals and songwriting these days, but because I’ve been busy with preparations for my church’s musical concert, I’ve not had any time to pen them down. I managed to get my Alan Jay Lerner book renewed recently, and I have been completely drawn into the book. I’m now at the part [...]
Archive for the ‘Broadway’ Category
Musicals And Stuff
Saturday, 18 June, 2011
Alan Jay Lerner’s “The Street Where I Live”
Tuesday, 7 June, 2011
I was at the library recently and stumbled on this book called “The Street Where I Live”, which is a book written by Alan Jay Lerner chronicling his Broadway exploits, with specific regard to his experiences working on the shows “My Fair Lady”, “Camelot” and “Gigi”. And I then obviously borrowed it. Alan Jay Lerner [...]
Review: Disney’s “The Lion King”
Sunday, 27 March, 2011
Event: The Lion King Venue: Sands Theater at Marina Bay Sands Run: 3rd Mar – 31st May 2011 A Spectacular Beyond Words For all the supposed failings of Julie Taymor as director of the beleaguered Spider-man musical, one can never take away from her her crowning achievement that is the Disney musical “The Lion King”, [...]
The Beleaguered Spidey Musical
Sunday, 13 March, 2011
I have been keeping close tabs on the news pertaining to the high-profile (potential) trainwreck of a $65 million production that is the musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark”. This is the most expensive Broadway musical ever made, and also features music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge. Back in August last year, I [...]
Jerry Bock Dies
Thursday, 4 November, 2010
Heard this piece of news on the BBC this morning. The composer of one of the greatest musicals of all time has passed away. Farewell, Mr Bock.
Stephen Sondheim Podcast
Sunday, 14 March, 2010
A fantastic interview with Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim that I discovered recently. Downstage Center – Stephen Sondheim I can’t recommend this highly enough. It’s highly informative, and I’ve listened through it twice. Now I’m not exactly the biggest fan of Sondheim, but I was fascinated by his insights and sharing, and learnt a great deal [...]
Tell Me On A Sunday
Thursday, 4 February, 2010
One of my favourite Lloyd Webber songs. But the version I like best is the CD recording by Sarah Brightman (from “The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection”)…it’s just that I couldn’t find that exact version on YouTube. I love this song for a number of reasons. Firstly, great tune and chords. I could play it a [...]
“The Musical From The Inside Out”
Monday, 1 February, 2010
I just finished this book entitled “The Musical from the Inside Out” by Stephen Citron a few days ago. It took me awhile to finish it, cos I’m a slow reader, but I’m glad I finally did. Now I’ve read my fair share of books on musicals over the years, and I’ve got to say [...]
iSing The Musicals
Saturday, 19 December, 2009
I was very pleased and honoured to be a part of the ensemble at “iSing The Musicals” at the Esplanade Library recently. Basically Desmond asked if I could take on the piano duties and I hesitated a bit before agreeing to it, cos I wasn’t very confident of my piano abilities. But I agreed to [...]
Harmony In Songs
Friday, 18 December, 2009
I’m currently reading this book called “The Musical From the Inside Out” by Stephen Citron which I picked up from PageOne bookstore recently, and I’m enjoying it very much. (It doesn’t hurt to read too many books!) It makes many good and interesting points, and is filled with fascinating anecdotes on Broadway. One part I [...]
