Category: News

[Updates are at the bottom of this post!] Summer has poured out and spread over Manhattan like pancake syrup. I sit at the piano in a sublet apartment on the Upper West Side with the air conditioner blasting in vain. I am trying to write a song about a football game. I have spent the…

I’m back! For just a second, really. We start rehearsals for the Broadway production of “13” on August 4, with a sensational cast and an amazing band, and previews start at the Jacobs Theater on September 16 with an opening date of October 5! So I’ve been told. You can’t buy tickets yet because everything…

Daisy Prince has directed a gorgeous production of John Bucchino’s revue. Lots of wonderful songs and five wonderful singers, and I did three vocal arrangements (two of which are on the PS Classics CD, one of which is new for this production). Philip Brandes’s review here. It’s Only Life Rubicon Theater, Ventura CA Brimming with…

What’s new, Buenos Aires? I’m on a flight from New York to Los Angeles, the eighth cross-country flight I’ve taken so far in 2008. While I don’t much enjoy the flying, this time in the air tends to be mercifully free of distractions. Generally, I’ve spent that time literally staring into space, just grateful to…

I was having a big night last night. While Lauren Kennedy and I were in New York, rocking Birdland with The Last Five Years, my show “13” was kicking ass all over Los Angeles. Genuinely wonderful news, as reported by Ken Jones here. L.A. Drama Critics Embrace 13, Stephen Adly Guirgis and Zanna, Don’t! in…