Music & Theatre
Posts about music and theatre topics and performances
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Queen Lucy Monologue
This is one of my favorite comedic monologues, and I thought I’d share the text for you here in case you’d like to use it! This is my 1-minute cut from a scene between Lucy and Linus, from the musical “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” (music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the classic Peanuts characters created by Charles Schultz). Linus, do you know what I intend? I intend to be a queen. When I grow up, I’m going to be the biggest queen there ever was, and I’ll live in a big palace, and when I go out in my coach, all the people will wave at…
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❄️ “Let It Go” ❄️ (Disney’s ‘Frozen’ with CGI Animation)
✨ Is there anything you need to let go of right now? I hope today’s video inspires you to release something that’s bothering you, holding you back, or holding you down! This was tons of fun to make, and I hope you enjoy it! ❄️ Grateful for amazing technology that lets me realize my dream of being an animated character ??? Since I’ve never fully recorded this song before [high belt + how do you even mic this??], I thought Elsa’s first power ballad would be the perfect way to test it out! “Let It Go” is, of course, from Disney’s “Frozen” and was composed by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez and voiced by the incredible Idina…
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Announcement: Countdown ’til Christmas!
Hi, friends! My children’s Countdown ’til Christmas is now live! I’m making daily videos from Dec 1-24 with singing, reading stories, and talking about traditions from around the world. I hope this will spread a little extra cheer to a very unusual holiday season. It would mean so much if you’d share this with the children in your life! I really hope you enjoy them! The direct link to the full Countdown playlist is here: I created a new YouTube channel, Countdown ’til Christmas, for it. It would help me a great deal if you would subscribe! Subscriptions help the channel grow and others to be able to find the…
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Come Away, Death (Shakespeare: Twelfth Night)
My latest original composition for one of Shakespeare’s songs! I hope you enjoy it! The lyrics to this song come from Act II, scene iv, of Twelfth Night (1602). Duke Orsino and Cesario are suffering from unrequited love and ask Feste to sing this song to ease their pain. Shakespeare’s plays include many songs and dances, but these are often excerpted in modern productions (which is something I hope to help change :)). Very few of the original melodies survive, and some of my past work has been to compose music for the lyrics Shakespeare provided, which I really enjoy doing! If you’re planning an upcoming Shakespeare production and are…
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“Home Enough to Me” (Dean & Brush)
Celebrating a very special person in a very special way: it’s my mom’s birthday! I’m so grateful to have her in my life and to be able to be with her in person this year ♥️♥️♥️ We recorded this music video over the weekend: we had planned to go to a pumpkin patch/corn maze, but they were swamped with people. Instead, we ended up making this in the beautiful countryside near those farms (outside of Milton, FL)! It was so much fun and a special memory to do something like this! This video is part of a #10gloChallenge featuring the music of Dean & Brush! This song comes from their musical The…
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Shakespeare Musical Preshow
Today’s #WeeklyWednesday is a throwback to one of the most fun productions I’ve been a part of ? I hope you enjoy this excerpt from the musical pre-show I designed for Coronado Playhouse‘s production of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”! My talented fellow performers and dear friends are Renee Ulloa-McDonald, Carly Pandza, and Danielle Orner (Gallagher) ? ? The songs featured here are: 0:06 “Sumer is icumen in,” a mid-13th century round, written in the Wessex dialect of Middle English. 0:49 “Fair Phyllis,” an English madrigal by John Farmer, published in 1599. 2:11 “Now Is the Month of Maying,” an English ballett (similar to a madrigal) by Thomas Morley, published…
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Composing a new Shakespeare song!
For today’s #WeeklyWednesday, I decided to show you a new song I’m working on composing and recording! I hope you enjoy hearing it and a bit about the process of writing music for Shakespeare’s plays, which I really enjoy doing! I play it twice, at 1:03 and 7:12. This is my fourth or fifth version of “Come Away, Death” from Twelfth Night. You can hear bits of two others below – one of them is kind of a fugue-ish embellishment on this melody: The goal for this new version is to come up with a simple melody that would be singable for most people; the other two versions I’ve written…
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My Fair Lady: Full Performance
For today’s #WeeklyWednesday, I’ve combined all of the edited clips into the full version of my #NYU Master’s recital character study of Eliza Doolittle from Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady” ?? I hope you enjoy watching our 30-minute performance in its entirety! Whether this is your first time viewing it or you’ve already watched my full recital performance – thank you! – I really appreciate your supporting my work! It was so fun to work on this with my incredibly talented colleague-friends! They are: Tyler Dobies as Henry Higgins; Nyla Watson as Col. Pickering; Minque Taylor as Mrs. Higgins and Costermonger; Adelle Blauser as Mrs. Pearce, Mrs. Eynesford-Hill, and Costermonger; and…
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My Fair Lady: Part 10
Today’s #WeeklyWednesday returns us to my #NYU Master’s recital ?? for part ten, the final scene from my character study of Eliza Doolittle from Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady”! This video includes portions from Act II, scene v, continuing the action from last week’s video, where Eliza stands up to Higgins as she chooses her future – and her view of herself, singing “Without You.” If you’ve already watched my full recital performance, I hope you enjoy revisiting it (this time, edited with two camera angles and improved audio); and if you haven’t yet seen it – thanks for watching! If you missed the beginning, check out: I hope you enjoy watching my…
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My Fair Lady: Part 9
Today’s #WeeklyWednesday returns us to my #NYU Master’s recital ?? for part nine of my character study of Eliza Doolittle from Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady”! This video includes portions from Act II, scene v: After being welcomed and bolstered by Mrs. Higgins, Eliza stands up to Higgins as she chooses her future and her view of herself. Stay tuned next week for the conclusion! If you’ve already watched my full recital performance, I hope you enjoy revisiting it (this time, edited with two camera angles and improved audio); and if you haven’t yet seen it – thanks for watching! If you missed the beginning, check out: Stay tuned for the conclusion of…
