Dan Goggin

Dan Goggin ( born May 31, 1943 in Alma, Michigan, USA ) is an American author, composer and lyricist for musicals.

Biography

Goggin began his career as a singer in the Broadway production of Luther, in the Albert Finney played the lead role. He then toured for five years in a folk duo, The Saxons, by the States before he started the music for the Off- Broadway musical Hark! to compose. After this production Goggin began not only to compose the music for revues, but also to write the text for it. The content of the revues he made contemporary events, trends and people.

Main work

His school days in the Order of the Marywood Dominican Sisters and the positive life experiences as a seminarian in Detroit gave the impetus to a successful greeting postcard series designing with nuns designs. In 1984, he drew from it along with the book author Steve Hayes a cabaret, The Nunsense Story. Goggin revised the piece in 1986 and directed Nunsense again itself For this he received the Outer Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. After the musical The Fantasticks 1960 Nunsense is considered the second most successful off-Broadway production. So far, it has been performed in more than 5000 productions and translations in 21 languages ​​around the world. The German premiere took place in the intimate theater Dusseldorf on December 8, 1989. The Swiss premiere took place in the basement of St. Gallen stage on 31 December 1989

Other works

Goggin then wrote the book and music for A One - Way Ticket To Broadway and Balancing Act, but it has not reached to the success of Nunsense.

Also, a sequel titled Nunsense II: The Second Coming, which was premiered on 20 November 1992 at the Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury CT build ( German première on 22 November 1994), was not the success of the first part.

The subject would not let him go, so he still created the following additional items:

  • Sister Amnesia 's Country Western Nunsense Jamboree (UA December 1, 1995 ); dt.Titel: Sister Amnesias Country & Western Non ( n ) sense
  • Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical ( UA 2 October 1998); German Title: All the nuns again
  • Meshuggah - Nuns: The Ecumenical Nunsense (UA September 6, 2002 )
  • Nunsensations: The Nunsense Vegas Revue ( UA March 4, 2005 )
  • Nunset Boulevard: The Nunsense Hollywood Bowl Show ( UA November 19, 2009 )
  • Sister Robert Anne 's Cabaret Class ( UA July 10, 2009 ); German title: Sister Robert Anne's musical Course

Discography

  • Nunsense, Original Cast (New York ), 1986
  • Nunsense II, Original Cast, 1993
  • Nunsense Jamboree, Original Cast, 1995
  • Nuncrackers, Original Cast, 1999
  • Meshuggah - Nuns! , Original Cast, 2002
  • Nunsense A- Men!, National Cast, 2006
  • Nunsensations! , Original Cast, 2007
  • Nunset Boulevard, Original Cast, 2009
  • Sister Robert Anne 's Cabaret Class, Original Cast, 2009
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