Richard Skipper Celebrates Help is On The Way with David Friedman
13In today’s complex and challenging world, we often find ourselves facing problems for which there seem to be no answers. In this practical and inspirational book, songwriter and author David Friedman explores the idea that there are ALWAYS answers, and they often come in ways we don’t expect, if only we are willing to be open to the possibilities. In 1990, David wrote the song, Help is on the Way, in response to the AIDS crisis. First sung by Nancy LaMott, it has since become the theme song for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, and has helped raise millions of dollars for charitable and humanitarian causes around the world. Each chapter in the book is a line from the song, and is filled with stories, essays, anecdotes, quotations and practical advice. So whatever challenges you may be facing today, pick up this book, and know that Help is on the Way.
From We Can Be Kind to Listen To My Heart, Help Is On The Way, We Live on Borrowed Time, Trust The Wind, I'll Be Here With You and hundreds more, David Friedman has written songs of inspiration, love and hope that take on new emotional meaning in these challenging times. With 5 Broadway shows, his own Off Broadway Show , 8 Disney Films, 3 television series and recordings by such artists as Diana Ross, Barry Manilow and Nancy LaMott to his credit, David has, in recent years, come to realize that his true mission in life is to help heal and enlighten people in whatever ways he can. With this in mind, David recently wrote a book entitled The Thought Exchange – A Practical Method of Moving Beyond "Positive Thinking" and spends a great deal of time travelling around the country lecturing, giving concerts and teaching Thought Exchange principles in workshops and private sessions.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
With multi-platinum recordings, Broadway shows, Disney Animated Films, Television scores and a teaching and lecturing career that spans the nation, David Friedman is truly someone who has made a major mark in all areas of show business.
From We Can Be Kind to Listen to My Heart, Help is on the Way, We Live on Borrowed Time, Trust The Wind and I'll Be Here With You, David has written songs of inspiration, love and hope that take on new emotional meaning in these challenging times.
After spending several years conducting musicals on Broadway, including Grease, Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Song and Dance, David went to Hollywood where he was the Conductor and Vocal Arranger on such Disney classics as Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. This led to David's writing music and lyrics for Disney's Aladdin and the King of Thieves, scoring three animated television series (Happy Ness, Sky Dancers & Dragon Flyz) and the film Trick, and a 13 year stint as Music Supervisor and Vocal Arranger of Broadway's Beauty & The Beast.
Most recently, David has been writing musicals for Broadway. His show Chasing Nicolette, written with Peter Kellogg, has had three highly successful productions, at The Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut, The Prince Theater in Philadelphia and the Village Theatre in Seattle, and won the Barrymore Award in Philadelphia for best music. It is slated to open on Broadway next season.
After a critically acclaimed production in Seattle, David’s show Stunt Girl, about the life of Nellie Bly, also written with Peter Kellogg, was just presented at a staged reading in New York and is now preparing for an out of town run before a Broadway opening.
A new Kellogg/Friedman show, Lincoln in Love, about the early life of Abraham Lincoln, written for the Bi-Centennial of Lincoln’s birth, had its first reading at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. and is currently being developed at the Village Theatre in Seattle.
And a fourth show by the Kellogg/Friedman team, Desperate Measures, a country and western version of Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, was an award winner at the New York Musical Theater Festival, has been successfully produced in theaters around the country.
David’s Christmas Oratorio King Island Christmas, written with Deborah Brevoort, has had over 40 productions around the world, and continues to be a Christmas staple in community, regional and professional theaters across the country.
As a record producer, David started his own company, MIDDER Music Records, and wrote for and produced all of the late, great Nancy LaMott's CD's, including the recently released Nancy LaMott - Live at Tavern on the Green. A new Nancy LaMott double CD entitled Ask Me Again, hit the Top 20 Billboard Jazz Chart, and a new DVD of 25 of Nancy’s performances has also become a best-seller. Next, MIDDER will be releasing a 4-DVD set of Nancy’s live cabaret performances, and both a movie and a book on her life are in development.
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