“From Boots to Broadway: How Army Veteran Ryan Smith Transformed His Life Into a Captivating Musical Journey”
Ryan Smith
So, in the writing process, we actually wrote the whole thing before we ended up crowdfunding it because I wanted to have everything in place before we did it. I worked with Nathan Hurley. He’s currently the lead singer of Fox Royale. If you haven’t heard them, they’re kind of an up-and-coming kind of a pop rock band. They were at the time in another band called Guys on a Bus. So, he and I worked together. I kind of told him my idea. He loved it and I’m sure I did it completely the wrong way. I kind of had a really general overview of what I wanted my story to be. And then I just kind of worked through chronologically. I didn’t jump around to different spots. I just started in the beginning, worked my way through, and I just knew, okay, so here’s a spot where I need a song. And so I would talk to Nathan and I’d say, okay, well, here’s where we are in the script. We need to get to this point A to point B where this next part stops. We need a song to cover that ground. The song needs to be about this topic. And he and I would kind of workshop back and forth about the lyrics. And then once we kind of felt good about it, then he would go off and write the music. So, I think the music for this film, as a result, feels very conversational in a lot of ways, as opposed to some other musicals you might watch.
Post Comment