Green Light Moments 💚🚥
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Green Light Moments 💚🚥

Green Light Moments are when the Universe tells us we’re on the right path. Not for a minute since we began creating the Musical SNIPPED! have I had a second thought about the endeavor. And on the morning of our first staged performance I got a sign from the Universe … a Green Light Moment if there ever was one ... that life was saying "yes." 💚🚦

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SNIPPED!
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SNIPPED!

After 2 table readings we’re finally preparing for our first “Staged Reading” of our Musical with legitimate actors and singers who will bring our songs and story to life. It’s a test. Will they laugh? With they cry? Will they leave the theater happy that they came? We’re ready to find out.

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Kill Your Darlings
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Kill Your Darlings

We hunkered down today and decided to experiment with a non-structured song. We resisted our pop sensibilities and incorporated many different unrepeated sections — a quantum leap out of our comfort zone. We might have to write three versions of the same song before we feel like we hit the mark. There’ll be elements in the versions we scrap that are wonderful and will never see the light of day. It’s been said that writers must “kill their darlings” — get rid of the most precious and especially self-indulgent passages for the greater good of the literary work. Like that. Not easy but necessary. And painful! 💔

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Confessions.