A guest blog entry from Michael Shaieb, writer of The Astonishing Return of... The Protagonists! to be presented at this year's Festival of New Musicals.
About fifteen years ago when I
graduated from the NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing program, I was faced
with the reality of what I would do for a living. I had some recording
equipment and thought that perhaps I could start a recording studio. When I met
my partner, Brent Lord, who had the technical knowledge, we formed a company
which later became FatLab Music. We specialized in recording demos for music
theatre writers and performers.
When I began writing The
Protagonists with my collaborator, Kevin del Aguila, the question was how
do we record our show to convey the different stylistic choices we created for
our world. The Protagonists contains a world of
