Oh L'Amour :: The Erasure Musical

Seven years ago today - whoa.

Had to take a look at B-Sides recently for a re-write of the show and came upon this fantastic song I'd never heard. Shout out to Onge's website archive which was MOST helpful.

Erasure - Over the rainbow My favourite Erasure B-Side EVER!!!From the 'Chorus' Single, released June 17th, 1991.Written by: Clarke/BellPublished by: Musical Moments Ltd/Minotaur Music...

Holds a lovely spot in Act II

Erasure - Love To Hate You (Official HD Video) Official HD music video for “Love To Hate You” by Erasure. ‘Love To Hate You’ was the second single, from Erasure’s Number 1 album ‘Chorus’.Originally releas...

‘It’s the songs that count’: Erasure’s Andy Bell on being out in the 80s, living with HIV and falling from fashion Alongside Vince Clarke, the electropop pioneer has produced some brilliantly catchy and enduring songs. As the group releases a new album, the singer reflects on what happens when the hits dry up – and why he still loves performing live

Congrats to OG OLM team member Mark Saltzman as his ROMEO & BERNADETTE migrates to Off-Broadway (finally)!

Meet the Cast and Creative Team of Off-Broadway's Romeo & Bernadette The new musical begins performances at Theater 555 May 3.

Ethan L Phong sharing some OLM love today!

Congrats to Ethan L Phong on his new gig!

Aladdin's Adam Jacobs Will Be King of Siam in Drury Lane's The King and I Alan Paul will direct a cast that also includes Betsy Morgan, Christine Bunuan, Paulina Yeung, and Ethan Le Phong.

Well. the final Indiegogo perks arrived yesterday. Angelo Warner at Estoy Merchandise came up with the poster binding and found a Manhattan vendor to print copies of the script with unique autographed title pages. Vince and Andy signed them in Glasgow while on tour and they were shipped to me while in London last October. I'll add my signature before these ship to the lucky recipients. Perk distribution took much longer than expected - so a hearty thank you to those who have patiently waited so long on the last stragglers! Cover art by Frank Svengsouk. Logo design by Chesley Nassaney

For all of you who donated at the Indiegogo level where a signed book is your "perk"...these pictures are from the printer today. Vince and Andy signed the cover pages on their UK tour and Richard shipped them to our hotel while I was in London last month. They'll ship to me for my signature and then we will ship these out ASAP in January. Thanks SO much for your patience.

I had forgotten that AUG 29 was written on the tickets which were an IndieGogo campaign perk. Although the fundraising didn't result in a full blown production, it did allow us to record all the tracks to include with the book when attracting producers to the project. Mitchell, Alexander and Josh knocked it out of the park. Then, yesterday, August 29th, I was able to send those tracks to Andy & Vince for them to hear for the first time!! So a significant date after all!!! THANK YOU for all the kind support (via Matt, too!) yesterday. More fun news coming soon via the IndieGogo account page.

All the tracks are in their last round of mix notes. I've been listening to the show numbers for the last few days now and I am amazed as to what Mitchell, Alexander and Josh accomplished. Thanks, too, to Shaunté, Patrick, Ethan, Sam and Lyle for bringing their incredible talents to Erasure's songs...as well as the dozen or so other singers and musicians that stopped by and recorded...all resulting in some pretty great stuff. A million kisses of gratitude all around.

Prepping mugs for shipping this week! UK, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Chile, Norway, Canada and about a dozen states in the US...these mugs are going places.

The OLM table read a year ago today was the last time I saw most of the people in the room. What was supposed to precede a new live performance of the show actually was the starting point for a year of Zoom auditions, IndieGogo campaign, plans and revisions of plans, studio recordings one actor at a time and tireless editing and mixing by Mitch, Alex and Josh. It's been a ride, for sure, but the best is yet to come.

Perks are finally arriving and that means shipping will begin soon. Thanks, everyone, for your patience!

Frank Svensgsouk's final artwork is in and I couldn't be more pleased. On to the printers!

Happy Holidays, everyone! For those of you awaiting perks from the IndieGogo campaign, they will be shipping out in January. Like everywhere else, things moving much slower these days (including me LOL), but items ARE coming! Thank you for your patience!

Thanks to hard work of the talented trio of Mitch Kaplan, Alexander Burke and Josh Harris, the first mixes are beginning to surface. So great to hear the voices from that sweltering week of recordings!

Working on perks and the Playbill content this afternoon and compiled the list of folks who donated to OH L'AMOUR. Until then;

Alexander Hogy, Martin Lanceley, Monica Longe, June Martin, Brian Henderson, Jamie S. Rich, Caroline Anderson, Gerry Feltmann, AllisonKirschenmann, Janet Quinonez, Vanessa Reigel, Alan Wallace, Clarissa Jacobson, Jorge Saul Sampieri Dominguex, Michael C. Cohen, Andrew Smith, Martin Quinton, Matthew Valencia, Mark Stubbs, Azat Nurmagambetov, David Goldstein, Janelle Sheetz, Rozsnyai Edit, Scott Snyder, Ronnie Gunning, Jeremy Thompson, Barton Dewing, Graeme Watson, Erik Kruse, James Paventi, Nick Oswald, David Cromer, Kimberly Stewart, Timothy Johns, Marie Roberts, Andrew Slade, Robert Smith, Janna Snyder, David B. Zachritz, Lily Gwyer, Kathleen Shanley, Beth Polsky, Raymond Eng, Tom Coulthurst, Chadwick Benefield, Dwayne Wyrwas, Terry Mason-Williams, Michael Klein, Kai Hermannsen, Jana Severin, Julie Dixon, Phil Briggs, Tim Plavic, Markus Bitsch, Mark Pugh, Caitlin dos Santos, Jane Cave, Jennifer Weinberg, John Andrews, Greg White, Harris Doran, Alison Robertson, Leefa Roe, Karla Rodriguez, Becky Damoth, Kendra Clark, Eric Werner, Greg Schwartz, Chuck Osborn, Trent Deckard, Chris Carpenter, Kurt Maurer, Steve Stroot, Pascal Costanza, Brett Greenstein, Steve Dobbins, Michael LaCorte, Gayle Romero, Sergio Martin, Santi Trilla, Nicola Barnett, Vaidas Morkevicius, Chloe Corcoran, Mark Sandland, Viktoria Szetlak-Moinar, Darren Mitchell, Harlan Gulko, James Stubblefield, Richard Hagerty, Diane Kami, Mark Williams, Mikki Levi, Maggie Adams, Troy Titus-Barrow, Lars Madsen, Jason Levin, Jeffrey Fischer-Smith, Anna Gerard, Diane Severson, Lisa Gall, James Durazio, Sharōn Ronen, Steve Spigarelli, Mark Saltzman, Tory Underwood, Michael Beckelheimer, Julie Bennett, Tom Saltarelli, Beau Genot, Uri Fleming, Ronnie Gunning, Simon Watchorn, Natasha Howard, Aaron Meyer, Tracy Gray, Ty Bradford, Chad Sandrini, Craig Wilburn, Alex Baskin, Wendy Fleming, Paul Jarman, Ryan Seaton, Joe Bauer, Jose Santiago, Vincent Garcia, Andrew Wright, Allan Tudzin, Sean Collins, Juliette Marshall, Catherine Foote, David Albrecht, Rick Andreoli, Richard Blaimert, Juan Estrada, Ian Johnson, Karl Harman, Sean Slyer, ‘Mzbizar’, Daniel Riordon, Michelle Miller, Jessica Pennington Quinn, Laurel Lucas Clark, Hank Williams, Joshua A. Kinman, Sian Evans, Alana Cosentino, Greg Stewart, Robert Severson, Harmony Who, Kerry Hirschberg, Timothy Milius, Shannon Keever, James Van Beek, Katherine Kane, Christopher Pomeroy, William Hurtt, Onil Chilbas, Richard Kennair, Jeff Krol, Greg Turner, Hersin Magante, Nick Williams, Paul Jarman, Megan K. Clarke, Denise Corcoran, Daniel Lavoie, Andy Thomas, Mark Torres, Darryl Mia, John Daro, Dan Lavoie, Alan Cook, Eileen Lloyd, Heather Mickler, Linda Valdes, Tina Baker, Douglas Ross.

Here's an update!

We recorded lead vocals for all 24 songs in the show over 7 days here in LA. Some really amazing work! So proud of what our five singers accomplished working with MD Mitch Kaplan, DIR Michael Shepperd and sound recording artist Alexander Burke! Got goosebumps more than once! Ethan returned home to Atlanta, Shaunte is off shooting a TV show. Sam, Patrick and Lyle are working hard on their own projects. Next up, we will record choral voices for all the bigger numbers and then start the process of mixing and editing.

I'm producing the "perks" and will update that process through Indiegogo. We're on target to meet our end of year delivery (COVID notwithstanding)!

As we were unable to shoot the show as planned due to in sufficient funding, the November streaming event has been postponed. As soon as we can put something together that we can proud of, we'll do it.

The new recordings will definitely help theatrical producers envision OH L'AMOUR on stage, which is our ultimate goal. I can't yet say if/how those can legally be shared publicly, but I promise to do what I can to that end and will update here on that effort.

Thanks to everyone who donated and made that possible! Without you, we would have never made it this far.

“Just A Little Love.” ’s last recording session with us. Been a glorious (if not hot) five days witnessing this incredible talent. Add kindness and generosity and I can say without a doubt “I believe there are angels calling!”

And now,
A Little Respect

“Fingers & Thumbs” is coming out so so great!!!!

A shattered heart in love’s debris!

“I Could Fall in Love With You,” Donut Friend

“Don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone!”