The excitement builds!

I really love working with university students. Not only are they talented, and optimistic about the business (aka "not cynical") but they have an infectious enthusiasm for musical theater!

My experience at Sheridan College in Toronto was fabulous, and now I am having another positive experience working with the students at OCU Bass School of Music in Oklahoma City.

Dan Meagher is the producer of this concert to be presented at 7pm on April 23 at the Petree Recital Hall (which I just found out sits about 500 people, my biggest audience yet!) on the OCU campus, and from my very first e-mail exchange with him, have been nothing but impressed at his professionalism and enthusiasm.

I received an e-mail from Dan telling me he had heard great things about my show and wanted to know if I would please submit it to their "Stripped" project.

Exsqueeze me? You're asking me nicely to please submit my work to you? You mean I don't have to beg, and whine and scheme, and beg, to get you to listen to my work? You want to??? What a great feeling! Of course I said yes. And when I was a little slow to get the materials in, he followed up. Yes, HE FOLLOWED UP!

And from what I've heard from Dan, it sounds like they are really marketing this event and doing PR -- see my Talkin' Broadway post. Kudos!

Since then I met through e-mail Roy Lightner, the director of the PLANE CRAZY part of the show. Again he loved the show and was really excited to get a chance to work on it. I love this guy!

Then last night I got another very enthusiastic e-mail from a woman "Shauna Hagan" who has been cast in PLANE CRAZY and she had listened to the music and wanted to thank me for submitting my show to them.

You get so much rejection in this biz, that when people consistently thank you for writing your show, and sharing it with them, it is positively heady stuff!

Sometimes it is hard to keep that joy and excitement, to remember why you got into the biz in the first place. The people at OCU are making it a whole lot easier! Thanks guys!

A news story about the New Musicals Project has been added to the OCU Bass School of Music website here.

Also, this past weekend, OCU opened their new $38MM music school facility -- the most technologically advanced, state-of-the-art music school facility in the nation. Click this link to read more and click this link to check out the Web cam.

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