A musical already exists of this that played off broadway (at Playhouse 91 I think) in the 80s called Yours, Anne written by Enid Futterman & Michael Cohen. They subsequently turned it into a concert work/oratorio-like thing and I believe Andrea Marcovicci recorded that as "I Am Anne Frank".
I did not see it as it was before my time, but the score is quite lovely. It's a very tasteful, plaintive telling of the events, nowhere near as garish as calling it Anne Fr
Eddie has written only 4 songs for King Kong, the rest are taken care of by Marius DeVries and whatever else stuck from the previous incarnations. I think he'll have a busy couple of months but it's not like he's written two massive works that will need his constant attention. Also, both shows have music depts. and they usually do all the heavy lifting anyway.
I'm excited to see both shows-- Perfect wrote a fairly witty and tuneful if slightly sophomoric,
I'm excited about A Strange Loop-- Michael R. Jackson is one of the more exciting & original young writers working in musical theater right now, and I'm thrilled PH is giving him a major production.
The Flowers for Algernon cast album has horrible sound quality and either bad playing or bad orchestrations. It's a weird score/show to begin with and on the whole you can tell there's something attractive in there, but lord, it just sounds dated and the band sounds real tired.
also the Little Fish album is disappointing. The entire cast loses their pitches en masse in the opening number (2:00-2:33) and just sound exhausted. It's a very interesting sco
I hear it's happening at a regional theater (where it would make sense, given its subject matter) in the next season. BUT who ever knows about these things.
there is a workshop happening in Toronto right now, with a book by Craig Lucas, Jason Howland adapting Stephen Foster tunes with new lyrics by Nathan Tysen; Moises Kaufman is directing and Bill T. Jones is choreographing.
