Something heroic is happening on Broadway.  The new musical, "Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark" is being launched at the  Foxwoods Theater, and there's a lesson here for all of us. The show is directed by Broadway phenom Julie Taymor, and has music by Bono and The Edge from U2.  It is already infamous for a [...]

Here's something for your holiday enjoyment, a cool marching band moment that has gone viral on the web! Enjoy!

Need some suggestions for new holiday music?  It's that time of year, when the world falls in love, every song you hear seems to say..."Merry Christmas"....and it's also the time when we often invest in some new music for the season.  I thought I would share with you some of my favorite Christmas CD's in [...]

This post promises to be thoroughly self-congratulatory and may teeter on the verge of being almost pompous, so all readers who usually flee from these types of blog posts should stop reading now and get back to Farmville.  I write this at the great risk of alienating my regular readers and fans, as all three [...]

I have been writing shows for almost 30 years and I can say without a doubt that all of my greatest successes have come when I had the courage to take a risk.  Any time I tried to play it safe, the show ultimately lacked life and originality.  But the times that I "went out [...]

There has been a lot of news lately about young people who are being bullied at school, sometimes leading to tragic results.  It's encouraging that this issue is getting attention and that a discussion is taking place across the nation.  Much needs to be done, and adults needs to step up and do their part [...]

So what happens at a typical rehearsal?  The band director stands up in the tower, overlooking the field, and gives instructions during the rehearsal.  To allow him or her to be heard, there is usually a microphone and sound system of some sort.  This has the distinct advantage of allowing the director to be heard [...]

A recent conversation with my friend, Greg Basham, reminded me of some important guidelines for contest performances which I have written about before but which could be helpful to revisit here today. As you are making plans for the week of rehearsals before your next contest, remember that it is extremely important to work on [...]

One of those things we all do is get our teeth cleaned every 6 months.  When I lived in Atlanta, there was a span of about 3 or 4 years when I saw the same lovely dental hygienist every 6 months.  She always did a nice job on my teeth, but she was not the [...]

The new season of Project Runway recently started and the first designer eliminated left the show because of bad hair.  I'm not talking of the woman's personal hairstyle, which if I remember was quite questionable (some sort of dredlocky thing), but her great sin was the way she "styled" her model.  She had created a [...]