"Kiss the Air" by Scott Alan

[sleepyguy1717]

Posted: 10/9/08 at 4:47pm

Does anyone know if "Kiss the Air" by Scott Alan is from one of his musicals or was a song composed specifically for Dreaming Wide Awake?

And if not, and I was going to sing it for an audition would I say I'll be sining "Kiss the Air" by Scott Alan from Dreaming Wide Awake, or just leave that last part out?

[sleepyguy1717]

Posted: 10/9/08 at 10:52pm

Anyone know? Anyone?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 10/9/08 at 10:56pm

Let me dig out my cd case....

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 10/9/08 at 10:57pm

if my gayness serves me correctly I think it's from Warmth of the Womb a new show he is writing... or Detour an old one.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 10/9/08 at 11:04pm

According to the liner notes:

Written as a stand alone, but inspired his first musical "Detour". It does not specifically say whether or not it was actually used IN the show.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 10/9/08 at 11:12pm

I think the linear notes themselves strongly imply that it wasn't...

[bwayrunner22]

Posted: 10/9/08 at 11:28pm

From Scott Alan's Youtube account:

"'Kiss the Air' was the first complete song that I ever finished. I wrote this song two weeks into my parents divorce. I wasn't very close with either my mother or father growing up but my mother was hurting and all she wanted was answers. Well, I couldn't give her answers, but I wrote her. I recorded it in a low budget studio and sent it to her with a note saying 'If Dad was man enough, I wish these were the words he would have said to you before he left.'

As strange as it sounds, and as horrible as the divorce was for everyone, this song is what helped connect my mother and I. For the very first time she saw that I wasn't just a dreamer living in a fantasy. "

Kiss the Air on Scott Alan's Youtube account

[sleepyguy1717]

Posted: 10/10/08 at 12:23am

Wow! Thanks! I don't have the actual CD, I got it iTunes. I just wanted to know if it was from an actual musical before I sang it for my audition.