Well, hello! And welcome to the 'Sleepaway Camp The Musical' Blog!

We're hoping to share all our experiences about bringing our musical to the Big Time... or really at this point to the Any Time. One step at a time, right?

Just to give you out there in the internet some background, we have been working on this musical on and off for about 6 years at this point. Andrew Heringer, Rob Bean and myself (name-o' Fredrick Wolf Molitch, nice to meetcha!) all taught at a summer camp together. I would bring the movie 'Sleepaway Camp' in for a group of the staff to watch after the campers all went to sleep. Eventually talk of it being great material for a musical turned into us putting together a couple of songs which grew into the full show.

Through those years we all lived in different states up and down the West coast, so it was rare that the three of us could sit down in the same room and work on it. Finally after a number of little vacations together, we had a working script.

We waited a long time to get a reading of it together but just last week we had our first glimpse of it in a bare-bones concert reading of the script and music in Sacramento, CA. Graham Sobelman arranged the music for us and put together an amazing cast of singers for four preformances at the WM Geery Theatre. The book was added to and things were cut, plus we came out of the weekend with two new musical numbers! Yes, yes... I know you're impressed.

I was blown out of the water by how professional and legit this musical had become! The audience reaction was overwhelmingly positive and all of us on the creative side of things started seeing a much bigger scope for Sleepaway Camp The Musical. People were really flipping for this show!

The next step now is working with the rights holders for the Sleepaway Camp films, who we're in contact with and, from all I've heard, seem very excited about the project and keeping Sleepaway Camp alive in pop culture. We'll keep you updated with info and pics of the work so far! Thanks for the interest!