Cautiously Optimistic, the Music of Scott Evan Davis will feature Boston talent Leigh Barrett, Brad Peloquin and Chelsea Williams as well as Broadway and cabaret's Ellyn Marie Marsh, Nicole Johndrow and Joshua Dixon.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 24th at 8:00pm
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"I predict that
Scott Evan Davis will have a show on Broadway in 10 years time (5 if he makes the right connections). He is a lovely, sweet man and a fine singer who told us the most wonderful stories of how songwriting literally just came to him. If he can write a script as well as he can write music, this IS the Broadway show he should write." -
Sue MatsukiIf you don't believe my praise...how about...
"You're a genius!" -
Kristin ChenowethBelow is a short blurb in Scott's own words on how this project the cabaret show, the CD and now the Broadway show came to be:
"I never thought I would be a composer, let alone a lyricist. I was always an actor and a singer. It's true that I always played the piano, but couldn't think of wanting to anything LESS than writing music. It simply never, ever interested me. My dream was to be on stage. My mentor (as a performer), whom I lived with during the last year of his life while he tried to teach everything he thought I needed to know about theatre, passed away shortly after a blowout fight we had. We never reconciled. It wasn't until I dreamt of him years later where he forgave me, or at least....in the dream he did. Thestrange thing was, while he was hugging me during the dream, he hummed a melody. When I woke up, I went to the piano and played it. That became my first song. I called it Cautiously Optimistic. Every time I tell that story, I am fully aware of how odd it sounds. Now, I have an album coming out called "Cautiously Optimistic" and an evening of my songs by the same title."
