Janet Vogt reports in with “interesting” and even good news about the children’s musicals she writes with Mark Friedman. “Green Gables” had a “terrific” run at the Barter Theatre in Virginia earlier this year and earned an enthusiastic letter of recommendation from the artistic director.

First Stages Theatre in Milwaukee produced the one-act “junior” version of “Green Gables” and were so thrilled the theater commissioned Vogt/Friedman to create two more musicals for them, “one based on “The Little Princess, and the other based on the “How I Became a Pirate” books.

Vogt is happily leaving the details of acquiring rights to the theater; she’s hoping for a March 2008 reading in Milwaukee. “My favorite lyric so far is Mark’s – “You can find us at Pirates…dot – ARGHHHHH.”” Johnny Depp would love it.

Jackie Demaline

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