I Finished the First Draft
by Michael B. Druxman on 08/25/12
August 27, 2012
First, there is a new DVD review (PIRANHA 3DD) up on the Best Bets on DVD site, accessible via the link in the Introduction section of this page.
This past week I finished the first draft of my new play in THE HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS series. It's the first one I've written since the mid-1990s.
The last several pages "wrote themselves" a lot quicker than I expected. I've even done some polishing since then, and the manuscript is now in the hands of a trusted friend and professional for her input.
Unlike my other plays in this series, the new one is a TWO-Person play, rather than a monologue. It even has music.
However, unlike JOLSON and CHEVALIER, all of the songs I'm using are in the public domain. Copyright holders, for the most part, have been very nice to me on those older shows, but I really don't want to deal with music licensing any longer. It's too time consuming and complicated. Thus, public domain.
The title of the new play is NELSON AND JEANETTE.
And, with that information, if you can't guess the identities of the subjects, then you're probably not going to read it anyway.
:-)
In any event, I had fun writing it. Assuming that my friend's notes don't trigger a major rewrite, I'll probably make the script available in both paperback and on Kindle within the next month or two.
You have a creative week.
Michael
