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Michael, I wrote it in the summer of '01 - I remember being at a 4th of July BBQ at a friend's house and raiding his Xmas sheet music in the music room -- and just as we were getting ready to go, then came 9/11.
Most people backed off theatre that fall/winter, if you remember correctly. A lot of Broadway closed -- remember when travel packages included free tix to LION KING or PHANTOM? -- so we went on hiatus and waited.
Fortunately, this particular producer was tenacious, and we began workshopping in the late summer of '02 and the tour went through Nov-Jan '03. I don't know the final numbers, but I know the show paid for itself -- though why there's been no American tour of it since, I don't know. It has a possible ten-week window when it's appropriate, so it might be too expensive to mount for such a short time.
One of my biggest self-criticisms is that the stuff I write plays all too well in Peoria. I'm not edgy by any stretch of the imagination, so the hip, urban crowd tends to not want to get me. AESOP played because it was quirky, not edgy -- and SANTA... man, there was nothing in SANTA that wasn't white-washed within an inch of its life. Even the stuff I didn't think was controversial they made me soften.
Edited by Tom French on 15 July 2009 at 8:12am
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