Mar 7, 2012 | News
I’m performing in this new musical from Stephen Sislen, Ben Winters and Andrea Lepcio, which tells the story of the Watergate scandal like you’ve never heard it before!
Featuring a starry cast including Lorna Luft (PROMISES, PROMISES) and Stephen Bogardus (FALSETTOS), music directed by Vadim Feichtner (SPELLING BEE).
Jan 17, 2012 | News
I’m singing Sam Carner and Derek Gregor’s stellar song “Out of the Bay” from their musical UNLOCK’D (among other of their pieces) at this concert of their music at the Duplex, alongside Jose Llana (SPELLING BEE, FLOWER DRUM SONG), my longtime bud Amy Justman (COMPANY, WHITE CHRISTMAS), Kara Lindsay (NEWSIES) and other greats!
Hear more of these guys’ great material here!
Nov 3, 2011 | News
The inimitable Sara Wordsworth knocks it out of the park with “A Singer Prepares” at this showcase representing the most recent greatest hits of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop! Directed by Igor Goldin, accompanied by Jeff Blumenkrantz.
One of my most popular songs, you can check it out in the Song Store!
Oct 19, 2011 | News
I’m returning to the role of Marcus Moscowicz in MURDER FOR TWO, now a long-running hit at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre!
Sep 19, 2011 | News
My wonderful year as a 2010-2011 Dramatists Guild Fellow culminates in this showcase at Playwrights Horizons, where all 10 of us Fellows will present excerpts from the work we’ve developed over the year, under the tutelage of Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Andrea Lepcio, and many brilliant guest artists (including Stephen Sondheim)!
I’m presenting material from my new show MY LIFE IS A MUSICAL, performed by myself along with Emily Padgett (ROCK OF AGES), Kristine Reese Tighe (WICKED), Natalie Charle Ellis (9 TO 5), Billy Tighe (LA CAGE AUX FOLLES), Nick Dalton (LEGALLY BLONDE), and Alex Wyse (LYSISTRATA JONES).
My astoundingly talented fellow Fellows (playwrights and musical theater writers) are: Masi Asare, Chisa Hutchinson, Anna Jacobs, Peter Lerman, Bill Nelson, Kristen Palmer, Ayanna Saulsberry, Ken Urban & Stefanie Zadravec.
An exciting finish to a wonderful year — look for new material from this show soon on my Writing page and in my Song Store!
Jun 19, 2011 | News
I join forces with Juilliard-trained playwright Adam Szymkowicz, writing music for his lyrics in his “clown noir” play CLOWN BAR, which has a one-night-only performance in Rising Phoenix Rep’s Cino Nights series. Performed in an actual bar, the play tells the story of Happy, a clown-turned-cop who goes back into the seedy den of clown crime to settle an old score …
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CLOWN BAR
by Adam Szymkowicz
directed by Kip Fagan
Lyrics by Adam Szymkowicz and Adam Overett
Music by Adam Overett
with Alex Anfanger, Brett Aresco, Stephen Bel Davies, Sam Breslin Wright, Jamie Effros, Jessy Hodges, Beth Hoyt, Jessica Pohly, Dominic Spillane, and Stephen Stout
Long ago Happy left the Clown Bar and the organized clown crime world to work for the good guys. Now his junkie brother Timmy has been murdered, and Happy returns to his old life to ask a few questions. Can he go home again without getting sucked into the seedy clown underbelly of vice and violence? And will he survive the gun toting clowns who used to be his friends? Or Blinky, the lady clown he left behind?
ONE NIGHT ONLY: Sunday, June 19 at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Seventh Street Small Stage