It’s been more than year since I last updated my web site, so it’s probably about time.

ADRIFT IN MACAO, the musical parody of film noir parody I wrote with Chris Durang, enjoyed a near sold-out run at New York’s Primary Stages last winter. To my delight, we received two Drama Desk nominations,  including the Outstanding Music category. We have a Premier Cast Recording coming out in mid-December , and the first post-New York production opens at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston in early January.

Since the end of the New York run of MACAO, I’ve been hard at work on THE LAST SMOKER IN AMERICA with collaborator Bill Russell. I also composed the score to a PBS documentary, EXILES IN HOLLYWOOD, about the generation of German and Austrian film-makers who came to Hollywood in the Thirties to escape Hitler’s Germany. The irony here is that this group of film-makers was largely responsible for the evolution of film noir. And ADRIFT IN MACAO is a musical that parodies film noir. It seems everything really is inter-connected, as we used to say back in the day.

Anyway, welcome, and thanks for visiting my web site.

The Premier recording of ADRIFT IN MACAO, featuring the New York cast, is now available on LML Music - Buy CD .