ASCAP Musical Theatre Festival with Stephen Schwartz: Call Me From The Grave was handpicked by Stephen Schwartz to be a part of the ASCAP/Universal Studios Musical Theatre Workshop in July of 2023.
Off-Broadway: CALL ME FROM THE GRAVE Concert-Reading Presentation at The Theater Center. “The music will make you want to move and sing as we follow Robert's rollercoaster of a life."
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center:Call Me From The Grave was recently named a Finalist for the Eugene O’Neill 2021 National Music Theater Conference. “We are honored to put our enthusiastic support behind this writer and their ongoing contributions to the American Theater.”
Yale Alumni Magazine:“…Last summer, Charlie and Eric Krebs, the show’s guitarist, did some research: they traveled the Mississippi Blues Trail. They drove Charlie’s mother’s old minivan from one tiny one-room museum to another, listening to stories and studying relics…When they came back, Charlie and John held auditions for band and cast members. The result was one of the best musicals I’ve ever heard—and I’ve been to that other Broadway…”
Yale Alumni Magazine (part 2): “Last May, I wrote in this space about Call Me from the Grave, a student-written, student-performed, all-black blues musical at Yale that was one of the best musicals I’ve ever seen. (I counted: I’ve seen about a hundred musicals. Call Me is in my top five.)”
