When a friend told Marco Lucchesi he was writing a musical about Rasputin, Lucchesi instantly replied, “Rasputin? I’ll do you one better: I’ll do the Elephant Man.” As he uttered those words, the melody and lyrics for a song popped into his head, and he sang, “Oh, you might not…
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It’s official: Stephen Sondheim is the all-time greatest writer of musicals. Okay, this is from a straw poll of only two people, but the pair in question, performer/director Nancye Hayes and director Stuart Maunder, are musical theatre royalty. Dare to suggest that Sondheim was the only creator of musicals to…
It was the owner of a tiny Japanese record shop who finally turned Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s career around. This was in 2015 when Ryota Masuka emailed to ask the transgendered singer/songwriter if he still had any copies of his 1986 cassette-only album Keyboard Fantasies. Glenn-Copeland – Glenn to his friends –…