With the particularly tragic deaths of Katherine Short, Bobby Carradine, Eric Dane, James Van Der Beek, and Catherine O'Hara, I'd like to share a scene and song from #POEthemusical titled #LettingGo.
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#HappyBirthdayPoe #EdgarAllanPoe #EdgarAPoe #PoetheMusical
Today is #Poe's 217th birthday. His 200th went unnoticed because of President Obama's inauguration. I wrote a musical to honor Poe and clear his name. Help me get it to #Broadway. #InMyHeart #TellTaleHeart
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#HappyBirthdayPoe #EdgarAPoe #PoetheMusical 🎭
Today is Eddy's 217th birthday. His 200th went unnoticed because of @barackobama.bsky.social's inauguration. I wrote a musical to honor Poe & clear his name. Help me get it to #Broadway! #TaskOfAMartyrsMotto #Poe
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Continuing my celebration of #EdgarPoe.
Did you know that Eddy's final work before his death, "Eureka" (1848), was a predecessor to the Big Bang Theory? He hoped to be known for it more than his short stories or #TheRaven. #Eureka #POEthemusical #Nevermore
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Could ChatGPT write this scene along with carefully-crafted music and lyrics, play the piano, produce, and direct a theatrical homage to #EdgarPoe? Absolutely not.
#InMyHeart #POEtheMusical #HireHumans
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It took me 30 years to write three iterations of #POEthemusical. It was at least two years of deep research. Then writing book, music, and lyrics by myself. I am confident that AI would never write anything 1/100th as good.
#MemoriesOfYou #POEthemusical This song is halfway through the second Act. Edgar mourns at his wife Virginia's grave. Her mother (his Aunt Maria) consoles him. I love this ballad and the economy of the dialogue. (I wrote book, music, lyrics, and play the piano.)
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#TheRaven #POEthemusical A staged reading of my musical with local performers at an Oregon college.
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Photograph of two women on either side of a bust of Edgar Allan Poe in the Poe museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Today my best friend/soul sister Donna would be 70 yrs old. She left this world in 2020 after battling Lupus & MS for decades. She was my co-pilot for many adventures, my cheerleader, confidant, and more. If it weren't for Donna, I wouldn't have pursued cabaret singing or finishing #POEthemusical.
Screenshot from song titled "Letting Go" in "POE the musical" in which Maria sings the phrase, "All your hope is torn asunder." Actress on the left portrayed Virginia Clemm Poe. Her hair is up in a bun and a blanket is draped across her shoulders. Actress on the right portrayed her mother Maria Clemm. She is an older woman wearing eyeglasses and a blue shawl.
"Like a tide that pulls you under
all your hope is torn asunder."
#POEthemusical #LettingGo
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Based on your word of the day posts, you might appreciate the first 3.5 minutes of this scene I wrote. #PoeTheMusical
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#MemoriesOfYou was one of the first songs I wrote for #POEthemusical. Years ago I sang it in my cabaret show and a critic complimented it in his review. I'm incredibly proud of the lyric and melody. (That's me on piano.) Before I die, I must get #Poe to #Broadway.
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#HappyBirthdayEddy #POEthemusical #EdgarAllanPoe
I am particularly proud of this mother-daughter duet in Act Two, titled "Letting Go." I hope you'll give it a listen.
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Except that Eddy was neither cold nor distant.
#TheTellTaleHeart #EdgarAllanPoe #HappyBirthdayEddy #POEthemusical
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#TheRaven #POEsky
#POEthemusical
#HappyBirthdayEddy
#broadway #nevermore
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Sad that the Baltimore Ravens lost the game on Poe's birthday. #TheRaven #POEthemusical
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#POEthemusical The song title, "The Task of a Martyr's Motto," is my nod to Eddy's famous short story, "The Cask of Amontillado."
There's also a musical nod to "Oliver!"
In musical theater, this is a "list song."
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#PitOfDespair #POEthemusical #EdgarAllanPoe #HappyBirthdayEddy #ThePitAndThePendulum
I wrote the book, music, lyrics, played the piano, produced, directed, and more.
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Happy 216th Birthday to Edgar Poe, born this day in 1809.
As a POE scholar, I'm determined to clear Eddy's name and set the record straight about who he was (vs myths created by Rufus Griswold), if only someone would invest in bringing #POEthemusical to #Broadway!
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#YouAndI is the wedding vows/song for #EdgarAllanPoe and Virginia Clemm in #POEthemusical. 🪦
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#MemoriesOfYou One of the best things that came out of #POEthemusical was meeting my beautiful talented friend Kathleen Lundquist who portrayed Maria Poe Clemm, #EdgarAllanPoe's aunt & mother-in-law.
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#MurdersAreRued "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the 1st detective story. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle credited #EdgarAllanPoe's Inspector Dupin as the inspiration for #SherlockHolmes. #StarTrek jokes as Poe also wrote sci-fi. #Hamilton joke, too. #POEtheMusical
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#PitofDespair Middle of Act Two. Edgar's wife Virginia has been dying slowly over five years. This song is, of course, an homage to "The Pit and the Pendulum."
#POEthemusical 🪦 #EdgarAllanPoe
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#FalloftheHouseofPoe, I used Donizetti's aria from Lucia diLammermoor because in the opera she's in love with Edgardo of Ravenswood. I added original material for Edgar & Maria to prepare for the end of Act One. #POEthemusical 🪦 The song begins at 5:48.
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Let's try again. #HappyBirthdayEddy
Edgar A. Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston. He created the detective genre, mastered horror short stories, and wrote about the "Big Bang" in 1848 with "Eureka." And I wrote #POEthemusical. #Nevermore #TheRaven
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#HappyBirthdayEdgarPoe #TheRaven #Eureka #PitandPendulum #AnnabelLee 🪦
On January 19, 1809, Edgar Poe was born in #Boston to actor parents David & Eliza.
I wrote #POEthemusical to clear Eddy's name after Griswold tainted his reputation for centuries.
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