Gearing Up For The Old Globe - The Whisper House Blog

Grammy and Tony award-winning songwriter and composer Duncan Sheik returns with his new album WHISPER HOUSE, which hit stores on January 27 from Sony Music. WHISPER HOUSE marks Sheik's first solo album since 2006's critically-acclaimed White Limousine and comes on the heels of the success of Spring Awakening. WHISPER HOUSE, which will have its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre in January 2010, is a collaboration with up-and-coming young playwright Kyle Jarrow, already an Obie winner for A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant. Masterworks Broadway is excited to bring you Kyle's WHISPER HOUSE Blog!

It’s been a busy couple months and I got caught up in a bunch of other projects. Plus, I’ve moved three times in the past four months. Seriously. That’s New York life for you.

Anyway, now I’m back to writing the WHISPER HOUSE blog. And I’ll keep on writing it through rehearsals for the world premiere production of WHISPER HOUSE, at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. It opens on January 20, and we couldn’t be more excited. I’ll also be bringing a small video camera to San Diego with me (one of those little flip-camera thingies) so I’ll be shooting some rehearsal footage etc while there too.

There’s lots of news since I last wrote. We have a cast! They’re not yet formally announced as they haven’t all signed their contracts yet. But as soon as all that business stuff is set, I’ll announce their names here. A phenomenally talented crew. Also, we’ve been working with a new director, the super smart (and, I must say, very well-dressed) Peter Askin—director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Trumbo, Privilege, the film Company Man, and John Leguizamo’s many solo shows among other credits.

[Side note: in terms of stylishness of everyday dress, I would rank Duncan, myself, and Peter as follows…
1. Duncan
2. Peter
3. Me
This ranking is probably not important to anyone in the entire world. But I thought it was worth mentioning.]

In other actually relevant news, the rough draft designs for WHISPER HOUSE are in, and are looking great. The designers are all massively talented people: Michael Schweikardt is doing set design, Jenny Mannis is doing the costumes, Matt Richards is doing lights. Meanwhile, I’m starting with some revisions, preparing the script for the first day of rehearsals in mid-December.

So I’ll keep you posted on all that, and more, in the coming weeks…
Happy fall!

- Kyle