So, for anyone out there who is still reading this but didn't see what I posted on Facebook or Twitter, I've been accepted to NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program for this coming fall.

I'M GOING TO GRAD SCHOOL FOR MAKING SHIT UP TO MUSIC!

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Outlaws: The Ballad of Billy the Kid
Book by Perry Liu, Joe Calarco, and Alastair William King
Music by Alastair William King and Perry Liu
Lyrics by Perry Liu

For lack of a better word, Outlaws is badass. Sure, you could write a musical about Billy the Kid and make it totally ordinary. It might even not suck. But it was ingenious of Liu, King ( Read more... )

Date of a Lifetime
Book and Lyrics by Carl Kissin
Music by Rob Baumgartner, Jr.I fully support any musical with a 70-minute running time. Not that shows shouldn’t be longer, but having the commute that I do back to the suburbs, shorter is generally better. (I can think of only a handful of things I’ve seen in the past fifteen years that should ( Read more... )

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