[Brother Marvin Hinten, S.]

Ladies and gentlemen,

I am going to ask the biggest favor I could ask of anyone at mdn! We are searching for a musical arranger/orchestrator for what is set to be "the biggest musical of all time," Don Claude Devious.

Starring Nik Janev (of Meat Loaf Star Struck fame, if you live in Australia), with book and lyrics by Ryan Letizia and music by Rhode Islander Gibson DelGiudice (moi), D.C. has been in the making for over fourteen years (probably since the librettist was five years of age). We have searched throughout the land, and the ocean, and probably the sky, and everywhere else this ambitious work would require us to go - and we are not stopping!

Anyone interested in being involved in the musical arrangements of this fascinating work, speak to Ryan at either rockfenris2005@yahoo.com or delinquent5@hotmail.com.

Here are some reviews of our vocal-only demos and the script from the powers that be.

DON CLAUDE DEVIOUS (THE DEMOS)

"... This is a work on a heroic scale, masterfully conceived, honestly done, and overflowing with splendid music and apt language." Dinah Johnstone, ABC

"... If Gibson DelGiudice and Ryan Letizia ever realize their production in a theatre or on film, the opera stands to change the entire structure and future of modern music." Chuck Silvester, Folks Renewed Society

"... If you still think that the rock idiom lacks variety and the potential for perpetuation, this is just the work to change your mind. 'Don Claude' makes it apparent that the electronic generation has come artistically of age." Rachel Guthridge, Endeavour: Your Guide to New Australian Theatre

"... DelGiudice and Letizia have fused words and music into such a convincing narrative style that rock may never be quite the same again. DelGiudice's clever sounds and rhythms not only do not drown out Letizia's words, but actually show an awareness of their syllabic structure... 'Don Claude' occupies the same assimilative position in the pop world that Ginastera's 'Don Rodrigo' does in serious opera..." Lawrence Morgan, Australian Goth Weekly

"... Dramatically it speaks, sings and shrieks to the people of today's tormented world. The lyrics of Ryan Letizia are devastating, often impious, and in the revolutionary mood of today's generation." Lloyd Mackenzie, Threepenny Services

"... 'Don Claude Devious'... is nothing short of eloquent. The poetic lyrics are fancy free, the characters made of flesh and blood... DelGiudice's musical eclecticism is awing." Keller Panson & Adrian Ford, LMWTSIYE Cafe (don't ask)

"... The most ambitious rock composition to date... memorable for its bold melodic contours, its multilayered rhythmic structure, and its incisive characterizations... the work is simultaneously satiric, serious, and searchingly pertinent to the present." Ronald Rossi & Marilyn Mavis, Basta Abbastanza Productions

"... It has become an... phenomenon... because the music and lyrics please a variety of tastes..." Elaine Wedding, Four Hundred Gallons, a fringe society that investigates offbeat works of theatre and their writers

"... The variety in the music - from a jabbing intensity to a ravishing loveliness, from monolithic grandness to sophisticated, quirky asymmetries, from sharp-bouncy-bright to swelling and massive - is exciting..." Mike Paradise, Gibichung Group (ex-Four Hundred Gallons)

"... All the best, Don Claude Devious! I couldn't put [it] down." Anthony Callea, Australian Idol runner-up, highest selling single in Australian music history

"... It won't happen over night, but this will happen..." Meat Loaf, third greatest selling rock album of all time

"Congratulations. Can't wait to see what you do...." Ray Errol Fox, co-author with Jim Steinman of The Confidence Man

"I hope I get a chance to see this musical...some day soon." Michael Kunze, author of Elisabeth, Tanz der Vampire and more

"I agree with so much of what you had to say..." Don Black, lyricist for Andrew Lloyd Webber and popular West End musicals

"Good luck..." Jim Rado, writer of Hair

"Good luck with the show." Andrew Lloyd Webber

FOR MORE DETAILS, check the website.

RYAN LETIZIA (delinquent)
GIBSON DelGIUDICE (Brother Marvin Hinten, S.)

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[filmscoreman12]

How is the project turning out?