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Monthly Archives: September 2020
TELL-TALE FRIDAY THREESOME
New York State International Film Festival Presents “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” September 25 – October 9 This Friday, my musical adaptation of the the Edgar Allan Poe classic, “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” will start screening on-line … Continue reading
The Awards Speech That Would Have Been
And the PIIF Best Actor winner is … not me. But hey, my acceptance video is cute, so let’s play it anyway! As you might remember… who am I kidding, why would you remember, but I won a Best Actor … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged 2020, annual gala, Awards, Edward Elder, Elmaz Ikovic, Film Festival, indie, International, PIIF, Prague, speech, Tatin Sin, Thank You, video clip
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TRIPLE SOFIE AWARD NOMINEE
“The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” receives three SOFIE Award nominations from The Short Film Awards At 37 minutes, “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” falls within the 40 minute maximum length for short films as established by major film … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News
Tagged Anthony Paul-Cavaretta, Austin Lepri, Award, feature length, Henry Borriello, Jason Chua, Long Short Film, mid-length, musicabre, Nicholas Callais, Nominations, outstanding, short film, Short Film Awards, SOFIE, Stolis Hadjicharalambous, Styling, Technical Work, The Tell-Tale Heart, Todd Maki
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TELL-TALE & ME IN BRAZIL (Virtually)
Daily On-line Screenings of “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” at Rio de Janeiro’s Rock Horror Film Festival Sept 17 – 27 Full schedule of daily screening times below I’ll take part in 6 (count ’em, six!) on-line film panels … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged Brazil, Covid 19, Edgar Allan Poe, Empty Nester, horror, Mandragoras, musicabre, musical, Nimmerlandverrater, No Getting Away, on-line, panel, Rio de Janeiro, Rock Horror Film festival, screening, short film, The Tell-Tale Heart, Wicca Book
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Tell-Tale at the Orlando International Film Festival
Another Chance to Watch “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” The Orlando International Film Festival is the second of four film festivals this month to make my short film “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” available to the viewing public … Continue reading
ANNOUNCING THE NEXT POE MUSICABRE!
While accepting two Tell-Tale awards from Indiedance! So, no more being coy, enough with dropping hints or announcing I will be making an announcement, as I have now and then for many months, let’s just make it official: There will … Continue reading
Diana Rigg and the 3rd Happy Song for Dark Times
I just learned that Diana Rigg passed. Rest in Peace, Diana Rigg. Diana Rigg was probably my first childhood celebrity crush. I likely first loved Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins the way tots love their nannies, but I had my … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Cinema Scope, Live! On Stage, Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News
Tagged Big Band, Bond Girl, Broadway, Diana Rigg, Freud, Game of Thrones, German, Julie Andrews, Laurie Johnson Orchestra, Mary Poppins, Medea, Miss Marple, Mit Schirm Charme und Melone, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Patrick Magee, The Avengers, TV Theme
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So last night I received the JUDY GARLAND AWARD
I could say I’m over the moon… … actually, I’m over the rainbow Last night the Art is Alive Film Festival held its awards ceremony. Just like the festival, it was a virtual affair. Cindy Mich, festival founder, convened a … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged Another Day in Manhattan, Art is Alive, Award, Brandon C. Lay, ceremony, Cindy Mich, Edgar Allan Poe, horror, Judy Garland, Michael Pharis, musicabre, musical, Musical Soundtrack, Oshkosh B'gosh, over the moon, over the rainbow, Sandeep Kumar, short film, Simple as That, Special Interest, Stonewall, That Old Black Magic, The Rock of Gibraltar, The Tell-Tale Heart, Wizard of OZ, Zoom
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INDIEDANCE AWARDS
“The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” wins two awards from Indiedance Film Festival 2020 Yesterday I was informed via a recorded zoom call that Indiedance film Festival 2020 awarded “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” with a Gold Award for … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged 2020, Art is Alive, Award, film, gold, horror, Indiedance, monitor, musicabre, musical, on set, short, Silver, soundtrack, Special Interest, The Tell-Tale Heart, winner
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TELL-TALE TONIGHT!
SOMETHING THAT’S THRILLING SOMETHING THAT’S CHILLING SOMETHING TO STILL YOUR HEART A MUSICABRE TONIGHT! 8:15PM EST – ON-LINE SCREENING OF THE TELL-TALE HEART – A MUSICABRE FOLLOWED BY A Q&A WITH YOURS TRULY! HOSTED BY ART IS ALIVE FILM FESTIVAL … Continue reading
Art is Alive Actor Workshop
Thursday, Sep 3 – 6pm – 7pm CDT (7pm – 8pm EST) Silverspot Cinema (Brookfield, WI) 320 Market Street, Brookfield, WI 53045 I will be taking part in an Actor Workshop with the actor Michael Gentile, moderated by Cindy Mich, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Live! On Stage, Notes in the News
Tagged actor, Art is Alive, Brookfield, Cindy Mich, Cinema, Film Festival, Michael Gentile, Milwaukee, panel, round table, Silverspot, workshop
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Notes from a Composer 