Escape To Margaritaville

Escape To Margaritaville

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Being Jimmy Buffett fans for all our lives, we were thrilled to be asked to create a musical<br><br>using his catalog of music. Having never written a musical before, we started the process<br><br>of writing the story by re-listening to the songs we knew by heart, but from a totally new<br><br>perspective. We listened for the stories, the characters and the emotions that could be<br><br>extracted from each song. We wanted every song that was going to be sung to have a<br><br>specific meaning and emotional resonance for the character who would perform it. It was<br><br>our hope that the Parrotheads would enjoy these songs in a way they haven t enjoyed them<br><br>in the past, and have deeper, or in some cases, completely different meanings than they<br><br>had previously associated with them. And for those audience members who were not as<br><br>familiar with Jimmy s music, we hoped to craft a story where the songs fit seamlessly into<br><br>the narrative as if they were written after the fact. We were very happy with where we ended<br><br>up with the script, but when we heard what the Music Supervisor Chris Jahnke did with the<br><br>songs, we were blown away. He brought a whole new energy and dimension to the music<br><br>that not only stayed true to the original songs we ve enjoyed our whole lives, but he also<br><br>made us feel like we were hearing the songs for the first time. We can only compare it<br><br>to seeing an old friend in a new light and falling in love all over again. Because of that,<br><br>every time we listen to this album we will be reminded how lucky we were to work with<br><br>Chris Jahnke, one of the kindest, most generous and talented people we ve ever met. <br><br>- Greg Garcia and Mike O Malley