Still at St Sauveur La Vallee
We had a great week with Bobby Harling continuing the process of turning his movie, SOAPDISH, into a musical. It’s easy to get distracted by the weather and food down here, but we did manage to write two songs – TIT FOR TAT and THE START OF SOMETHING REALLY BIG (which we may rename as there are other songs out there with a very similar title) – the original title for our song was I’M HOPING THEY CAN USE AN EXTRA EXTRA, but we felt it gave the gag away, as it is sung by a line-up of young hopefuls auditioning as ‘Extras’ for a daytime soap opera – we’ll see what the producer thinks. We also made a start on a song which will be the title song for the soap opera within the show called THE SUN ALSO SETS. George wrote a great tune, so it’s now down to me to mess it up with words!
Last week we had a friend down who loves gardening and she helped us beat the garden into shape (taking care to avoid the wild orchids) – George loves a good strim and I planted some new shrubs. We also got the sit-on lawnmower out of mothballs for the first tentative cut of the year (avoiding the wild orchids!)
We both come back to London for a couple of days at the end of next week to judge The Stiles And Drewe Award (I know, it makes it sound as if we died) for an up-and-coming songwriter. For anyone interested, it is part of the Sondheim Society’s annual event to award a young performer. Our part of the competition is to present a prize for the best new song – chosen from many entries submitted by members of Mercury Musical Developments. It takes place at 3.30pm at The Playhouse where La Cage Aux Folles is playing.
Oh, one last thing…the mixing on the Peter Pan CD is complete, George now has to ‘Master’ it before it goes to manufacture. So long as the CD booklet publication comes together in time, we are still aiming for a June 20th release. It’s sounding great.
Au revoir pour le moment!
Ants
