She's a Rainbow
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For the summer of 2008, I designed sound for Three Musketeers at Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Boulder Colorado, as well as engineered all the shows in the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre.
Listen to music from the show:   |
 Stephen Weitz as Athos battles Bob Buckley playing a Cardinal's Gaurd |
The Opening Fight Scene
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Classical Rock: An approach to Dumas' Three Musketeers
Director Carolyn Howarth took me
by surprise when she said for music she was
thinking classic rock. She told me that when the audience thinks of Athos, Porthos,
Aramis, and d'Artagnan we should imagine Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul
Jones, and John Bonham. The Musketeers of 17th century France were the rock
stars of their age. They partied hard, rebelled, and every kid wanted to be one
when they grew up. I immediately got excited about the project, and The Three
Musketeers became one of the funnest shows I've ever worked on. Over the
course of our several meetings, and listenings, we decided that we would mix
classical versions ("string quartet tribute to...", "symphonic music of...", and
"London Philharmonic plays..." etc.) of some of the great songs of the era with
the original tracks. Over the course of the play we would start with almost
exclusively classical instruments, and add more and more rock elements, and by
the end they would be all the original rock songs. We wanted the audience to,
not initially, but eventually think that they are familiar with the song, and
just about when they have it figured out bring in the elements that they would
surely be familiar with and think, "I knew it!" For the show, in addition to Led
Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, Queen, the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd. I had a
tremendously good time doing the show, I think it turned out really well, and
the audience enjoyed it.
Colorado Shakespeare Festival notes on The Three Musketeers
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