Tarja To Release 'Dark Christmas' Album & Shares 'Frosty The Snowman'
Tarja is set to release a 'Dark Christmas' album and has shared a rendition of 'Frosty The Snowman.' Watch and listen to the festive track here. With enchanting and captivating renditions of well-known Christmas carols, such as Wham!'s 'Last Christmas,' Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You,' Paul McCartney's 'Wonderful Christmastime.'
Interview: Katie DeShan's Always Having Fun in THE REVUE
Producer/creator Jim Dooley reprises The Revue, his modern musical parody at The Bourbon Room September 17, 2022. In this edition, Rick Batalla takes over the directing reins from Matt Walker with the cast of Katie DeShan, Tiffany Daniels, Isaac Robinson-Smith and Philip McNiven.
I had the chance to throw out a few questions to Katie on her history with The Revue and the Troubies.
THE REVUE Returns With Cabaret Edition At Hollywood's Legendary Bourbon Room, September 17
On September 17th, THE REVUE returns with a Special Cabaret Edition featuring All-New Songs based on favorite movies turned into musicals, including: Top Gun, Caddyshack, The Empire Strikes Back, Aliens, Men in Black, The Princess Bride, There's Something About Mary, Pulp Fiction, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and many more. The new edition will also feature a live band performing in the style of “Rock of Ages”.
BWW Interview: Jim Dooley's THE REVUE Mashes Up Movies Into Musicals
Emmy-winning composer Jim Dooley teams up with Troubies’ founder Matt Walker to world premiere the ‘dynamic plot-concepted’ The Revue at the Colony Theater opening March 17, 2022. Matt directs the cast of himself with Rick Batalla, Katie DeShan, Tiffany Daniels, Isaac Robinson-Smith and Travis Leland. Jim carved some time from rehearsals to explain his novel dynamic plot concept and chat on some highlights of his varied career.
THE REVUE Comes to The Colony This Week
“THE REVUE”, a revolutionary new parody of cinema and theater classics that pokes fun at the very fact that “Not everything should be a musical,” will hit the famed Colony Theatre in Burbank, CA on March 17, 2021.
THE REVUE Comes to the Colony Theater in March
This Spring, pandemic-fatigued audiences will return to the theater with a heightened appetite for farce, satire and whimsy. 'THE REVUE', a revolutionary new parody of cinema and theater classics that pokes fun at the very fact that 'Not everything should be a musical,' will hit the famed Colony Theater in Burbank, CA on March 17, 2021.
LISTEN: Tarja Shares Holiday Track 'Together'
TARJA is officially starting the festive season with the first single of her upcoming live album Christmas Together: Live at Olomouc and Hradec Králové 2019. It arrives November 6 via earMUSIC.
Acclaimed ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop Celebrates 30th Year Of Producing Top-Tier Screen Composers
ASCAP, the world leader in performing rights and advocacy for music creators, today kicks off its renowned annual ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop for an historic 30th year. Mentored by Emmy Award-winning composer Richard Bellis and produced by ASCAP Film & TV executives Michael Todd and Jennifer Harmon, the comprehensive 4-week program in Los Angeles is known in Hollywood circles for grooming some of the film and TV industry's top composers, connecting them with agents, music supervisors, attorneys and A-list Hollywood studio executives. The 12 composer participants for this year's program were revealed today.
STAGE TUBE: Epic Mickey 2 Video Game to Feature Musical Score
Emmy-winning composer Jim Dooley and lyricist Mike Himelstein have written the score (Dooley) and the songs (Dooley & Himelstein) for the first video game musical: Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two. Epic Mickey 2 is the first video game to use songs to drive the story forward, and one of the lead characters (the mad doctor) only communicated via song.
Check out a sneak peek of the innovative new game below!