Saving Romance

If you want something to happen in the theatre business you really have to want it bad and you have to love it and never give up. It sounds like a total cliche, but it's absolutely true. I'm sure that sometimes things just magically line up, but I doubt that happens much.

My partners and I have been trying to get another project off the ground for a few years now... we've had a few really great ideas, and we've had many ways of looking at it. Only now does it look like maybe we're actually getting somewhere. There are a couple things cooking. With any luck, maybe... just MAYBE... one of them will actually happen.

This blog got off to a false start, the earlier notes from last year are from one of the projects that didn't happen. I'm leaving it there as a reminder. And I'm keeping the title of the blog the same. It's still appropriate. "The Play's the Thing." It's true.

The focus of this blog is the project that is now slowly coming to life. It's a musical adaptation of the 1991 British film "Hear My Song": a fictional account of a young nightclub owner who tries to save a failing music hall and his relationship with his girlfriend by convincing the famous Irish singer Josef Locke to come back to England from tax exile to perform at his club.

The lead character is on a mission to save romance, and, in a way, we're on the same mission. To save the romance... the fantasy... the dream... of making a contribution to the musical theatre.