TAKING TWO STEPS FORWARD: Much has happened since I last wrote!

Hey there!
Yes, I know it's been a while.  But great things sometimes take a bit to brew!  Much has happened since my last post.

First, let's talk about Marvin. 

You know, the crazy queen who lied and ripped off my sweet husband, my sister, our friend and myself...along with several others that I found out about after the fact.  Well, he's hiding out and laying low.  We know he was recently still in Vegas from reports of his being on a gay dating site.  Thank you to all the friends who keep me in the "Marvin loop."  I'm sure he'll get his karmic due sooner than later.







As for the musical, well, it is coming along beautifully.  We replaced Marvin with the amazingly talented, Jimmy Emerson.

We also got a top drag queen from the "Divas" show, Andrew Ryan, to professionally apply drag makeup to Tony Torres.  Although a veteran singer/actor/dancer, Tony had never done drag before.
                                                                               
He was quite concerned over it until he saw how beautiful he looked with the right hair, makeup and costume.  (See the picture of Tony as himself on the left and as the drag queen on the right.)

We are fortunate that Jimmy Emerson hosts a drag show in a small bar on Friday nights, so it gave us a place to woodshed some of the musical numbers from the show.

Here's another picture of Tony performing a number as a sort of a "Vampire Cher."  The song is called "Eternally" and it takes place on Halloween in the musical.

Tony was incredible!  It's as if he was born to do this part!

And Jimmy did a little strip in a saloon song called "Take A Good Look, Honey!"  What a character!




Here are a few pictures of his infamous number.

I had to take a short break away from working on the play due to some personal reasons.  But during that time, I got the idea to write an audio e-Book of the story based on the play, along with all the songs!  So, I've been working on that and it is really the perfect next step to getting this project off and running.  It's financially easier to produce an audio book and it will also give me a CD of the songs along with a hard copy book to sell as marketing items after the play.  I plan on raising funds for this e-Book on one of the web sites like "Kickstarter."  We'll be giving away e-Books, CDs and other fun items in exchange for donations.  We'll even give a few donors an acknowledgement in the foreward of the book itself.

Meanwhile, we garnered a remarkable fashion designer to make all the costumes!  His name is Mark Roscoe and he such a talent!  You can check out some of his designs at:

www.MarkRoscoeDesign.com

Mark just designed a new gown for the queen diva, Frank Marino.  It will be going in his show, "Divas" shortly.  We'll show you a picture of that gown and give you updates in the next post.

I thank you for taking this journey with me, and I look forward to sharing some more wonderful things with you very soon.

Always,

Heidi