THE SHIP OF STOLEN DREAMS - A NEW MUSICAL

To all musical theatre fans...

I'm pitching a new musical I've written about the voyage of the St. Louis in 1939. I'd love everyone out there to take a look at the project and tell me what you think and PLEASE spread the word to every Broadway fan you know!! I'd really love to create some support for this project and draw attention to producers.

You can see everything to do with the show, music, book, and design at my website... check it out!


http://www.shipofstolendreams.com


I'd love to hear your constructive criticisms!

Keep supporting new Broadway musicals! All the best!

Updated On: 1/17/08 at 07:02 PM

Especially my horribly off-pitch singing right?! lol...

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm well aware of the lacklustre quality of the demos, and wish there was something I could do but I'm living the epitome of the "starving artist" life right now and just don't have the resources at the moment. I've had to pull every favour I could with my friends to get everything you see on that website produced. Also, I'm currently located in a city with extremly limited resources in theatre and singing. I'm saving my pennies to make a move to a bigger city in the fall and hopefully will gain the resources I need to improve upon these tracks. Stay tuned in the fall, and hopefully I'll get those up.

I had never heard about this piece of history, but the story sounds heartwrenching and interesting. The designs look stunning, and are very well presented (although this would be a VERY expensive show to produce from the looks of it). The orchestrations to the first song are really great (it sounds like film scoring). I will most certainly check out the other music samples and read more about the project...

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Wal, it was not a critism. I thnk its a great idea.

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WOW . . . I love the intro music. It's the only song I have listened to so far, but great job!

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Wow--I'm pretty impressed so far!

I haven't read the libretto or listened to the clips yet, but the web design is outstanding.

i love the idea and the premis. the opening number gives me chills and it very much represents the time period and mood. great layout and design, too! i would love to see this produced. a lot better than a lot of that crap out there.

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I really like what I've seen and heard so far. The only problem is that you'll have a hard time finding producers unless you can find better vocalists. Go out in your community theatre. I'm sure you can find some people who are great singers to record the demo without having to pay them excessively.

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I'm surprised people do not know about this as there was a pretty good movie done about it.
I'll listen to it later as I have to go out.

I do think you need to rethink the title.........whether things have similar names isn't a reason for yours to do that. You should want the name alone to stand out and generate interest....and if I just heard the name, and nothing more I'd also think Titanic. This moment in history deserves it's own name.

Also, as we have seen many times, Holocaust era things go through cycles for the main gentile public, they're in, then out for awhile......so always have this ready to show, as when you are ready to go, no one else may be.

As a Jew I hate saying that, but it's true.

I wish I could remember the name of the movie....it was good!

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I thought your website was designed really well, the designs are really pretty. The music sounds really great, especially the first one. Good luck getting it produced!

Hey Elphaba... The movie was "Voyage of the Damned" produced in 1976 with big names of the era like Faye Dunnaway, Max Von Sydow, Orson Welles, etc... I've done my best to avoid the movie at all costs, because I don't want to associate my project with it so I haven't watched it in years. If you go to the links page on the website I think there's a link to amazon.com where you can buy the movie/ book.

I explain on the main page of the website why the show is called "Ship of Dreams" and not "Voyage of the Damned" or "The Ship that Shamed the World" (As the newspapers of the era dubbed it.) I'd love to find a better title, but have been pondering over it for many years... I just can't find anything with quite the ring to it that "Ship of Dreams" has and the meaning... There's "Ship of Hope" but it doesn't really roll off the tongue.

Also, I don't know if any one noticed, but if you look closely at the show logo at the top of the website you'll see two stylized S's bookending the title. (Some people say it's the KISS logo S's. lol) They're the logo of the Nazi SS... This is to symbolize how their "Ship of Dreams" is bookended by evil just as the actualy voyage was all a manipulation and lie. So I'd really love (If I changed the title someday) to find one that I can do that same little trick with.

I agree about the title......The name commonly refers to the "Titanic", and you probably don't want anyone to think of THAT musical when thinking of your own!!!!!!