INTERVIEW: BONNIE GLEICHER BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO I’ve only met the talented composer/lyricist Bonnie Gleicher once on a Skype session to discuss her ongoing musical The Little Things, and now months later she’s completed her fourth musical Addy & Uno. In addition to Gleicher (music/lyrics), the new musical is a collaboration with Nava R. Silton, Ph.D. (book), […]

REVIEW: BORN FOR THIS BY RYAN M LUÉVANO Opening The Broad Stage’s 2017-18 is the new musical, Born for This, a show that could be more aptly named: “BeBe Winans’ Life in Concert,” as the autobiographical musical gives more the impression of a concert rather than a dramatic musical. That being said, the highlight of Born […]

REVIEW: TURBULENCE! BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Robot Teammate has returned to this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival with their latest original musical Turbulence! and they’ve hit the mark once again. When it comes to original Fringe musicals, Robot Teammate sets the standard, and the standard is high. Turbulence! is a perfect example of the group’s ingenuity for […]

REVIEW: COMIC-CON THE MUSICAL BY RYAN M. LUEVANO Writing a new musical is a long journey and most musicals rarely make it to a staged production, at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival the musical Comic-Con the Musical made it. Creators Laura Watkins and Nicholas David Brandt have brought L.A. audiences a close to first full version […]

INTERVIEW: LAURA WILEY BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Pianist, producer and composer Laura Wiley, the mind behind last year’s fringe festival parody Winter Is Coming brings us a hilarious new crossover parody musical Buffy Kills Edward: A Musical Romp. On the 20th anniversary of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this new musical answers the question: what would happen if the cast of Buffy […]

INTERVIEW: EMILY DECKER BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Emily Decker, musical theater veteran, and improv performer with a Master’s in Social Work, brings her original musical Trixie: The Musical to this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival. This world premiere takes therapy and mental illness to the stage in a positive light featuring a book and lyrics by Emily Decker and music co-written with […]

INTERVIEW: PAMELA EBERHARDT AND DAN TESTA BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO What do you call life after high school? Creators Dan Testa and Pamela Eberhardt call this: 13th Grade, which is the title of their new musical premiering at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival. This new musical is a new 90’s musical comedy in the vein […]

INTERVIEW: KAT PRIMEAU BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Last year Robot Teammate delighted audiences with their original musical Thug Tunnel which also won an award for “Outstanding Songwriting” at the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Now Robot Teammate’s new musical has skyrocketed out of the ground and into space to bring us Turbulence! Much like many of the groups works […]

INTERVIEW: ERIK BLAIR AND DANIEL SUGIMOTO BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO They Played Productions debuts its first live project; a serious adult musical about werewolves that explores obsession, our need for choices…and the rage within, this musical is Nothing Bad: A Werewolf Rock Musical. The show tells story of Perfection, California, where everything is exactly that—perfect. But when […]

INTERVIEW: LAURA WATKINS AND NICHOLAS BRANDT BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO I remember seeing Comic-Co the Musical at the 2016 ASCAP/Dreamworks Musical Theater Workshop with Stephen Schwartz at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Here’s a link Tin Pan L.A.’s recap of the 2016 workshop the includes Comic-Con the Musical: Full Article). The musical even then, in its […]