Ms. Meinwald is back!

May 18, 2012

You all know how talented my wonderful collaborator Julia Meinwald is, right?  Well, in case you need reminding, come on down to the Duplex on Tuesday, May 22 to hear an evening of her songs (some of them written with me!)

NEXT: Now Entering the Crossroads of Theatre presents

THE MUSIC OF JULIA MEINWALD

Featuring Chad Carstarphen (In the Heights), Laura Darrell, Marisa Devetta, F. Michael Haynie (Carrie), Zachary Infante, Alicia Krakauer, Jenni Lawton, Elyssa Brette Mactas, Amanda Savan, Josephine Spada & Mathieu Whitman with Remy Kurs on the piano and David Jolley on drums.

Tickets are $10 with a reservation ($12 at the door) plus a 2 drink minimum.

To make reservations, call The Duplex at (212) 255-5438 or reserve directly on their website.

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The box office is open!

Click here to buy your tickets for the World Premiere production of Pregnancy Pact at the Weston Playhouse!

The show runs Thursday, August 30 through Tuesday, September 11.  Tickets are priced $24 – $58.

Since you’ll be in Vermont already, why not buy a ticket to see the wonderful Susan Haefner in Theresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates, too?

More Weston-related announcements will be coming soon – including our wonderful production team and soon-to-be-assembled-but-certain-to-be-spectacular cast!

And you can find out more about the wonderful Weston Playhouse Theatre Company and their 2012 season (and donate to help with the last leg of recovery from Hurricane Irene) by clicking here.

See you in Vermont!

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This Sunday, a few of Julia’s songs will be featured in the Composer’s Voice Concert Series’ “Women’s History Month: A Celebration (Part II)”, including our song “Things That I Have Lost.”  It’s exciting to be included in a new music concert (not that we don’t love our musical theatre cabarets) and this will be an exciting chance to hear the songs sung in a new way!  Plus, one of my favorite composers (and one of the hardest-working writers I know) Rachel Peters is on the bill, too.  So come on out – it’s free, it’s Sunday, it’s worth it!

Composer’s Voice concert 
Sunday, March 25, 2012 1:00PM
Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
www.janhus.org
351 E 74th St New York, NY 10021-3798
Free Admission
We accept donations of food, clothing, and toiletries for the HOAP

Composer’s Voice Concert Series is an opportunity for contemporary composers to express their musical aesthetic and personal “voice” created in their compositions. Started in 2001, the “Composer’s Voice” concert series has presented over 75 concerts. Composer’s Voice is presenting its 6th concert for 2012 Sunday, March 25, 2012.

As a little preview, here’s Amy Linden’s wonderful rendition:
Things That I Have Lost - Amy Linden (music by Julia Meinwald)

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Auditions! Auditions!

February 21, 2012

Word is out…  Weston is casting!  This is real.

Here is the casting notice from Playbill, for anyone who might want to know.

And in case you didn’t notice, this confirms that the area students will indeed be coming to see Pregnancy Pact on field trips.  I wish my high school health class had included trips to see musicals!  It will be thrilling to hear about the discussions the students have relating to the show…

We can’t wait!

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The real-life(ish) Halle speaks!

February 14, 2012

In the last week or so, a bunch of interviews have been popping up with Shanna Widner, the daughter of Wanda Holloway (better known as the Texas-Cheerleader-Murdering-Mom.)  The case, as you probably remember, was part of the inspiration for Cheer Wars.  It’s been covered by People Magazine, Shanna had a long interview this morning on Good [...]

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Celebrating the American Musical

February 9, 2012

Our good friends at the Weston Playhouse have invited Julia and me to present a few songs from Pregnancy Pact at their upcoming benefit concert.  We’re happy to have our friends Ally Bonino, Emily Walton, and Lauren Worsham singing for us (with Rich Silverstein on piano, naturally.)  It will be a wonderful night celebrating a wonderful [...]

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Pregnancy Pact Premiere!

January 9, 2012

We’re so excited to announce that Pregnancy Pact will once again be knocking up Vermont, only this time as a world premiere production!
Julia and I are thrilled to return to the Weston Playhouse this summer, where the show will run August 30-September 11.  We’ll be closing out a MainStage season that also includes productions of Hound [...]

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CAP21 Writer's Co-op

January 8, 2012

Julia and I will spend the next two weeks writing our hearts out at CAP21‘s annual Writer’s Co-op.  We’ll be joining some of our favorite friends, classmates and collaborators – Karlan Judd & Gena Oppenheim, Julianne Wick Davis, Rachel Jett & Will Aronson, Brett Macias & Caroline Murphy, and Jason Hart & Dmitiri Landrain.
We’ll be [...]

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92Y Tribeca Performance

December 22, 2011

We’ve got videos!  Enjoy the clips below of our lovely ladies performing our set at the 92Y Tribeca’s “Behind the Music-AL” series.  The lovely evening was hosted by Adam Guettel and also included performances of work by Kyle Ewalt & Michael Walker and Michael Walker.
Love Me Better – Ally Bonino
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Penn State NU Musicals

December 15, 2011

Julia and I just took a weekend trip to lovely State College, PA to see the talented students at Penn State University do a staged reading of Pregnancy Pact!  They’d been working on the show for a few weeks and we were so impressed with how they tackled it.  Thanks to Raymond Sage & Rob [...]

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