New musical A PEBBLE FOR AARON

[bob8rich]

Posted: 10/12/14 at 6:49am

I have recently been working on writing a new one act musical comedy/drama with composer Rob Eyles, entitled A PEBBLE FOR AARON.

"It's late November in New York's East Village and it's snowing. Ray Green, a Jewish man in his 50s, and Bella, Ray's alcoholic ex-wife, enter Stan's Diner on the morning of what would have been their dead son Aaron's 30th birthday and proceed to exchange a series of barbed, vicious but also comic one-liners while waiting for their breakfast.
What are the ghosts from the past that still tear this couple apart with such a deep sense of hurt?
Why is Ray reading his newspaper upside down?
Why does Aaron's former boyfriend, Joey, come to meet with Bella on this day?
Who placed a new pebble on Aaron's grave?
A Pebble For Aaron – a musical about loss, grief, guilt and insults for breakfast - will answer these questions while making you laugh and cry."

We've just recorded demos of some of the songs with a quite incredible cast - Michael Matus (Ray), Rebecca Lock (Bella) & Shaun McCourt (Joey). I'll post links to the recordings as and when we get them up on soundcloud. Here's the first of them - the wonderful Shaun McCourt singing "Losing Him":
https://soundcloud.com/bobwordsmith/losing-him

Updated On: 10/30/14 at 06:49 AM

[bob8rich]

Posted: 10/20/14 at 11:23am

A second song from A PEBBLE FOR AARON has just been posted on soundcloud - INSULTS FOR BREAKFAST with vocals by Michael Matus (The Return Of The Soldier, The A To Z Of Mrs P, The Sound Of Music, Taboo, Lend Me A Tenor, The Baker's Wife, Martin Guerre, etc) and Rebecca Lock (Mamma Mia, Dear World, Chess, The Phantom Of The Opera, Avenue Q, Mary Poppins, Martin Guerre, etc).

Please take a listen:
https://soundcloud.com/re00029/insults-for-breakfast

[bob8rich]

Posted: 10/22/14 at 4:43am

Here's another song from A PEBBLE FOR AARON - the incredible Michael Matus performing GOOD NEWS:

https://soundcloud.com/bobwordsmith/good-news

[dgjbear]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 4:02pm

Really nice Bob...my favourite so far is Getting Through Today. I wish some of the subsidised theatre should be doing more to promote new stuff like this. I know they need to be commercial but worry that we will get new productions of Sweeney Todd (and I love Sondheim as much as the next gay man) every 3 years forever and new things won't be given a chance. Good luck with it and please update us on its progress

[bob8rich]

Posted: 10/23/14 at 5:06pm

Thanks, dgjbear! So pleased that you like it. And yes, it is such a tough uphill battle to get new musical theatre to the stage. There is SO much fantastic new writing out there but sadly there are only a handful of producers brave enough to support new writing. We are actively pitching this show right now and I will certainly update the Board with any news.

I see you've already got to listen to GETTING THROUGH TODAY before I even got round to posting it on here - so here's the link for anyone else who may like to take a listen. The vocals are by the exquisitely brilliant Rebecca Lock.
https://soundcloud.com/bobwordsmith/getting-through-today

[bob8rich]

Posted: 10/26/14 at 5:02am

Here's the last of the recordings we did in the studio 2 weeks ago - the title song from A PEBBLE FOR AARON, sung by Michael Matus & Rebecca Lock:

https://soundcloud.com/bobwordsmith/a-pebble-for-aaron

[bob8rich]

Posted: 10/30/14 at 7:05am

A PEBBLE FOR AARON now has its own website! Please check it out!

A PEBBLE FOR AARON