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Letters To Daddy To Be Performed At NYMF

September 18, 2009 By

Center Stage Productions Cast of Letters To Daddy, Jr Just got great news! The awesome version of Letters To Daddy that was adapted by Jill Jayson of Center Stage Productions in Westport, CT has been invited to be performed at the New York Musical Theater Festival a.k.a. NYMF

In case you don’t know what NYMF is, it is considered the “Sundance Festival” of Musical Theater. Many of the recent TONY award winners have premiered at NYMF. So it’s kind of a BIG deal. No. It is VERY DEFINITELY A BIG DEAL.

As it turns out, I will be part of the show, accompanying on guitar. I’m excited!

Here’s an article from Broadway World with all the details:

LETTERS TO DADDY JR. To Get Special Presentation at Manhattan Movement and Arts Center

Book by Jill Jaysen
Music & Lyrics by Mark Shepard
Conceived and Developed by 4e Productions

Get Tickets To Letters To Daddy, Jr. (a NYMF Special Event)
Seating is Limited so get your tickets Now!

Sunday, October 04 at 1:00 & 4:00 PM

at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center
248 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023
The theater is located between Amsterdam and West End Avenues.
Take the 1, A, B, C & D to 59th Street/ Columbus Circle.

In case you can’t make it into NYC on October 4th for the NYMF performances of Letters To Daddy, Jr., There will also be a Westport CT performance on Saturday Oct 3, at 1 pm & 7 pm

Seabury Center
45 Church Lane, Westport, CT

all tickets to the Westport shows are $15
Call 203 341-9659 for reservations (seating is extremely limited so reserve ASAP!)

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Letters To Daddy Performance Alert

May 8, 2009 By

Letters To Daddy: A MusicalIt's been quietly peculating in the background. I haven't mentioned it in a while but it's been there the whole time...quietly building.

  • 2 years ago, Bill Rodman asked me to write a song for his 11 year old God Daughter Rilee O'Neill.
  • 1 song turned into 12 songs.
  • Then an entire choir of Ugandan teens came and added their voices to several of the tunes.
  • The songs began to link together and support a story.

The first two productions of the musical are premiering in two different locations on the same weekend!

  1. Saturday, June 6th 1:00pm and 7:00pm. Westport CT
    $15.00
    Location: Center Stage at the Seabury Center 45 Church Lane in downtown Westport.
    For reservations and further information, e-mail Jill Jayson at: opedge[at]hotmail.com
    (I'll be at the 7:00 pm show)
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  2. Friday, June 5th at 7:30 pm, Sugar Loaf, NY
    $8.00
    Show Time: 7:30 pm
    Location: Lycian Centre, Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY
    Purchase Tickets To The Sugar Loaf, NY Shows of Letters To Daddy
    .
  3. Sunday June 7th at 5:00 pm, Sugar Loaf NY
    $8.00
    Show Time: 5:00 pm
    Location: Lycian Centre, Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY
    Purchase Tickets To The Sugar Loaf, NY Shows of Letters To Daddy

For those of you who live outside of the New England/New York area there are also stirrings. A college choir in Hong Kong is performing Together We Can Change The World as are school choruses all across the USA.

I look forward to sharing more of this as it develops!

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Lucky

January 19, 2009 By
Lucky Song Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Lucky Song | 2/14/2007 | Song # 361

I kick around town, looking up and down
You know, I know my way around
Feel like I finally belong
I think about you, feeling brand new
And what the two of us could do
I we could sing this song…
If we could sing this...

Refrain
Ooo-eeeee I’m lucky!
Why is it easy today?
Ooo-eeeee I’m lucky!
Won’t you come out and play?

Glad I have eyes, glad I have hands
and a clean shirt and pants
And feet that wanna dance
Glad to be here, free of the fear
Feeling light and crystal clear
Ready to take a chance…
Ready to take a...

Refrain

Life can be fast, as it flies past
And love takes time to grow
Sometimes, I’m at home alone
And all of it’s good, let go of the “shoulds”
And any impossibilities
As your wings catch the breeze!
As your wings catch the...

Refrain

Bridge: Why does it work out much better than you can possibly imagine?

Refrain:

© 2007 Mark Shepard

Commentary: this song is full of the "why" questions that Noah St. John calls "afformations". The deal with your unconscious mind is this, whatever questions you ask youself have 10 times the power of the statements you tell yourself. It's like your unconscious mind is pre-programmed to filter information for you based on the questions you ask. So ask really good questions! Of course my favorite saying is "Why does it work out better than you can possibly imagine? (or WDIWOBTYCPI - pronounced Widdy-Wob-tissipi)

This is the tool in my NLP arsenal I use the most on a day to day basis. There have been plenty of times when I literally chanted "Why does it work out better than I can possibly Imagine" for entire days...

language has power people. So pay attention to what you say to yourself. Or, just play this song over and over again. It works!

p.s. This song compliments a post I made at www.ModernJedi.com on January 12, 2009 called "Good Luck? Bad Luck?"

p.p.s. "Lucky" is featured on the Rilee O'Neill CD "Letters to Daddy"

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