{"id":5927,"date":"2013-12-12T12:17:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T18:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=5927"},"modified":"2013-12-12T12:22:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T18:22:01","slug":"upcoming-musicals-and-writing-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/upcoming-musicals-and-writing-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Musicals and Writing Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the run of my latest musical, &#8220;PAN&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.panmusical.com\/\">http:\/\/www.PanMusical.com<\/a>), I&#8217;ve escaped to Europe and the Bahamas to perform, reflect and work on new projects. I love the different musical influences, especially Rome, Italy and Greece where I stumbled upon a concept for a new musical theater work that is dark and engaging.<\/p>\n<p>Now in the Bahamas, I can&#8217;t really say that the musical influences\u00a0of the tropical islands apply to my projects much, unless you need Reggae or club dance music ideas. But it&#8217;s good for relaxing and I&#8217;ve enjoyed the beaches and tropical locations with my compadres including Nassau, Belize, Grand Cayman, Cozumel, Honduras and Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>So, to current projects: Yes, it&#8217;s true that I am working on a musical adaptation of Shakespeare&#8217;s Romeo and Juliet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know Romeo and Juliet has been done to death and the comment has even been made in the press that &#8220;it&#8217;s time to just let the lovers sleep in peace for a while.&#8221; But, without giving too much away, I can tell you that my treatment of the bard&#8217;s Romeo and Juliet, according to my knowledge and research, has the possibility of being a world first. A world first in almost five hundred years since RJ was first written and performed. So I will leave it at that until I am ready to go public with my bold statements.<\/p>\n<p>In other projects: the fall 2013 premiere of my &#8220;PAN the musical&#8221; was a resounding success with audiences. My revisions for that work are very few and the orchestrations, which were performed live, also have very little revision &#8211; so, in short, PAN the musical will be available to theater groups in early 2014 with complete script and orchestrations for a 7 piece band.<\/p>\n<p>My 2012 premiere work, &#8220;Witches the musical&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.witchesmusical.com\/\">http:\/\/www.WitchesMusical.com<\/a>), still needs it&#8217;s revisions completed. Yes, I&#8217;ve been hesitant on revisions for Witches because it&#8217;s a very intricate theater piece and very close to my heart because of the historical aspect and narrative. I would estimate that &#8220;Witches!&#8221; will be ready in the middle of 2014, but of course I said the same thing last year!<\/p>\n<p>I have also sketched out some other musical theater ideas for future performance including a thriller musical, a historical political piece (it&#8217;s much more interesting than that boring moniker infers), an adult comedy for small fringe cast, and a religious historical work. Also currently working on a collaboration but I won&#8217;t say anything about that because it wouldn&#8217;t be fair to the other writer.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading for those interested. I know that I have a small but extremely supportive group for my new theater works. Rest assured, I will give my all to each and every project I accept. It&#8217;s a thrill and a worthy use of time. Long live the vanguards of live musical theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the run of my latest musical, &#8220;PAN&#8221; (http:\/\/www.PanMusical.com), I&#8217;ve escaped to Europe and the Bahamas to perform, reflect and work on new projects. I love the different musical influences, especially Rome, Italy and Greece where I stumbled upon a concept for a new musical theater work that is dark and engaging. 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