Patterns That Form

Through the grass
Through the trees
Through the valley
Through the stream
I ran away

Through the grass
Through the trees
Through the valley
Through the stream
I cried

And the grass
was supposed to be green that day
The day you said you would come by
But I stand here waiting, wishing, hoping
For you

And this tree lay here as it did last year
It swayed in the air to the beat of the wind
And I felt like you were here

This valley lay deep and still
And I remember we ran through
Just the two of us
Just the two of us
In love for the first time

the stream we always crossed by your house
We held hands while running away
The two of us were so in love
The two of us were so in love
Yes, the two of us were so in love
The two of us were so in love
We Sang
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la

Through the grass
Through the trees
Through the valley
Through the stream
I ran away

Through the grass
Through the trees
Through the valley
Through the stream
I cried

This life was our start
Till death we did part
And I
I'll always love you


(It has the feeling of the music from Juno along with a touch from Iron & Wine. If I have time, I might record it soon)

The Cradle Will Rock.

The fall musical this year has a huge cast and is already underway. We had our first rehearsal yesterday and will be set to perform two weekends in October. I believe we will be doing a total of six shows. There was a movie released about 10 years ago about how the play came to be and why it was so controversial.

It seems that everyone involved with theatre or has a slight interest should check out this show or the movie. It was a giant stepping stone for theatre in the 1930s and we probably wouldn't have the quality of theatre we would have now if it wasn't for Marc Blitzstein. I was casted the roll of 'Steve' and also casted as a member of the chorus. He is a young adult that helps out with his father's drugstore, but tends to be more realistic with the events that are happening around him while his father is the idealist. It is a small role, but seems to be a great one that will help improve my awareness in this new world of theatre. It shall be exciting. I might even be looking into several auditions that are in downtown Spokane. 'Urinetown' is coming through along with Sondheims 'A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum'. Thank you Spokane for being a city.

Musical Blogspot.

This is the first post on the new musical blogspot.

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This will be the home for shared ideas of a musical that I am writing. With the title of this blog, it truly will be a work in progress not knowing when or how long this will take. I'm not sure how much time I will able to write this fall semester, but I'm getting ideas together for a story that I want to tell. I realize I can't do this alone. This is when you come in. I need suggestions/ideas/thoughts from you in order for my scattered thoughts to fall in to place and to make sense of the story in my head. You can come with me on this journey if you would like to. You can give suggestions or you can just stick around to see how these ideas will progress. More information will come. I'm still seeing if this will work out on a blog. The next post will hopefully be a rough outline of a story or of ideas that I have. And as for the title of this musical, we will find out together what should be most appropriate.

If you would like permission to access this blog or even become an author of this blog. Just let me know at anytime during this journey.

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The link is as follows: http://workinprogressmusical.blogspot.com/

Just send me your email through here, facebook or my email: traviswicklund@gmail.com

Starting To Write.

Wow. I've never thought I would do this. I have ideas for a musical in mind and started writing some melodies, characters, setting, theme, etc. I don't know when a final rough draft will be finished, but I have started at the very least. If you would like to know details of what I have so far, just let me know. I am thinking of starting a new blogspot with progress and shared ideas from others. We shall see where this goes and how much time I will be able to have to work on it while at school in Spokane.

Houses.

I chuckled and shook my head.

Silly McCain.

Fun.

Good news. Nate Reuss, the singer of 'The Format', has started a new band with the guitarist of 'Steel Train', Jack Antonoff and Andrew Dost of 'Anathallo'. They will be recording their debut album in September and it will be expected to be released in February of 09'. They currently have one demo track up on their MySpace. Check it out! http://www.myspace.com/fun

To Write/Compose.

These thoughts that have been going on in my head don't want to leave and I don't think that they will leave anytime soon. When I tend to sit down at the piano, I don't always work on my repertoire, I tend to write and create music of my own. Hours can go by just playing the same basic melody while finding the perfect accompaniment with the new sound. These thoughts of creating music is all I do now. It seems that this music I feel like creating isn't that of a folk song or an alternative rock ballade. It is different than that. I want to create a story through song, through a play. I've been thinking of ideas and books that could go perfectly in the musical setting, but have yet to find the perfect match that goes with the music I am writing. Musicals have been so diverse now that I feel like I can dive into it with no problem at all. In high school, I had the thoughts of writing an orchestration to a song just because it felt like I needed and wanted to write in order for my mind to grow. It was performed at the last concert of the year. I am having the same yearning thoughts to create a musical and I don't feel like these thoughts will leave until I get more ideas underway. But then again, I might never want these thoughts to leave. As for now, I will practice more piano in hopes that the melody will find me and find words to go with it.