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I’ll tell you what I hear. I hear my band in college, with a big Earth, Wind & Fire-style horn section, playing a riff that I eventually turned into “The River Won’t Flow.” 1988, I was eighteen years old, that’s thirty-seven years ago. I was dating one of the backup singers, I can still hear…

I have played a few concerts in my life where I felt something shift, like every concert afterward would be informed by what had happened onstage that night. The general structure of my concerts doesn’t change much from show to show, but over the course of these last thirty years of performances, there are nights…

I got asked if I would come watch a run-through of a new musical because the producers were considering replacing the musical director and wondered if I would be open to taking over. The catch was that the show was going into tech in three days, in Miami of all places, and – not to…

The world I travel in is filled with gay men and women, trans people, and folks who inhabit basically every millimeter of the gender-and-sexuality spectrum. They are my collaborators, my friends, my family, my supporters, my inspirations, and the bedrock of the theater community. And right now they live in a country that is trying…

It seems unlikely, I know, but I lived in Los Angeles for almost a decade and I really loved it, and one of the things I loved was my relationship with some of the local theater companies. In 2005, right after I got to town, the Rubicon Theater Company in Ventura did a really thrilling…