Welcome to Ayhan Sahin

We now have our music taken care of! (and we're dangling our prepositions like crazy!) A bit of history with this (with a further, more complete history of the show to come later):

Monty had written many of the songs in 1995-6, and recorded a demo with many of the actors from the original one-act production in '95. What we have today are:

- Monty's original lead sheets
- A recording of the demos
- The original MIDI files

The thing is, after the last rewrite in 2004, some songs were cut, others were trimmed. One song has the leads but no recording. One song has a recording with no leads. Also, none of the leads are ready to be used to teach vocals or to play accompaniment. So what we needed was pretty much transcription, but with a little more orchestration than straight transcribing.

With the helpful guidance of Seth Goldstein at The Splinter Group, I emailed what was essentially a job posting to the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, who included the info in their daily email to students and alums. Less than a day later, I received a call from Ayhan.

We met with him last week, at a Starbucks (as is the industry requirement). We had checked out some of his pieces on his website, and went into the meeting already thinking he may be a good fit with the show's style. He's an excellent guy, and after reading the script and hearing the demo and our musical references, he was excited to be a part of it. And today, he is.

Check out Ayhan's work at his website here. Thanks Ayhan, so glad you're onboard.