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CURRENT THEATRE WEST MUSIC PROJECTS PRODUCER WRITER David and the cast of the 2008 Chestnut Production's "Waiting in the Wings" has been named one of the best productions of 2008 and has tied for best ensemble performance by on-line critic Don Grigware. |
David P. Johnson
Reviews of Sally Spectre and an article from broadwayworld.com. |
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Prize Winner Honorable Mention Second Place Winner Sally Spectre the Musical... "As a composer Johnson has full command of the musical idiom of horror and his score abounds with whole tone scales and glowering diminished sevenths. His songs are clever and musically sophisticated" Trevor
Thomas "The characters are funny and lovable and the music is exceptional. But the most outstanding element is the tale’s point of view. Mr. Johnson has created a very original piece, a subject that hasn’t been explored, as far as I know." Janet
Miller "I think that Sally Spectre: The Musical has the potential to be a work that could comfortably rub shoulders with other gothic fantasies like Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, or The Addams Family." Matt Atchity "The production stills reminded us of Beetlejuice, and we wondered how writer David P. Johnson could turn a story about a little girl with a hatchet embedded in her skull into a musical. But as weird as it sounds, the storyline, the acting and the direction by Chelsea Sutton worked fantastically..." Christine N. Ziemba
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