What Is LaChiusa Up To?

[hortonhearsasam]

Posted: 11/4/06 at 5:49pm

Anyone have any clue if he has some new projects up his sleeve? I'm dying to hear more!

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 11/4/06 at 5:49pm

Let me call him and ask.

[musicalkid]

Posted: 11/5/06 at 9:20am

i'm also very interested of any new shows from him.

he seems to just shoot them out one after the other, and yet they're really good material!

[hortonhearsasam]

Posted: 11/6/06 at 1:01am

I guess no one's heard anything?

Please, people, I'm dying to know!

[neomystyk29]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 12:24pm

Also curious. Michael John, are you there?

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 12:26pm

He's adapting La Boheme into a rock operetta.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 12:29pm

What is a LaChiusa?

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 12:30pm

What isn't a LaChiusa?

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 2:23pm

Just being brillant.

[Luckydave14]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 2:34pm

I read somewhere that there is a production of See What I Wanna See in Boston and that he is going to be doing a post-show discussion after an upcoming performance.

[Merrydothe]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 3:05pm

Hes sent me a PM before. Maybe he'll post and let us know what hes up to. I know he checks these boards!

[gustof777]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 3:45pm

i'm gonna give a slightly immature answer and say he's busy being AMAZING!!!
I <3 that man and his brilliant BRILLIANT work! and we all know whatever he comes up with next will be well worth the wait.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 3:46pm

I swear there was something he was working on, like perhaps a commissioned opera, although I couldn't find anything through Google so I might have made that up one night.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 7:15pm

bwaysinger - are you referring to Lincoln Center? They commissioned LaChiusa, Tesori, and Guettel each to write an opera in '09, I think?

Posted: 1/16/07 at 12:43am

Wikipedia mentions: Send (who are you? i love you) (2006)

Idunno if 2006 means it DID get a production sometime last year or hasn't yet though...

[Jazzysuite82]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 9:14am

That was Audra's piece for Houston Grand Opera. That happened almost a year ago and they broadcasted it on the radio in Novemeber. It was lovely.

[mallardo]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 9:15am

"Send (etc.)" sounds like an Internet Musical - which could be a great idea. Two songs from it were included in Hotel C'est L'Amour.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 9:31am

It indeed was a one-woman piece based around an internet love affair.

He recently had, though I can't remember the title, a musical in California, I believe, performed that had quite a bit of past material as well as some new stuff. I think? I remember seeing an article on it a while back.

A truly brilliant man!

Updated On: 1/16/07 at 09:31 AM

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 12:14pm

Hotel C'est L'Amour was the name of his LA Revue.

[regnad kcin]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 12:28pm

He did receive a grant to write a musical for Signature Theatre. http://www.sig-online.org/press_releases/shen_event.pdf

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 1:01pm

How do composers make a living?

[Jazzysuite82]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 1:44pm

Well i know he's on staff at NYU. He's adjunct faculty.

Posted: 1/16/07 at 4:43pm

When was Send aire don the radio? so disappointed I missed it--I remember over a year ago her Seven Deadly Sins concert which I recorded off of the internet--but that's it

ah and here I call myself a fan :)