"CREATIVE HORIZONS": PARTNERS: MICHAEL L. RICCIARDI and JOHN D. NUGENT: Home
Welcome to Creative Horizons. We can create original songs, musicals or provide full arrangements and lead sheets for any musical composition. We can perform choral arranging and full transposition services. Whether your needs are pit band or full orchestra, Creative Horizons can provide any service your musical agenda calls for. Our current musicals available are "THE TRAVELING COMPANION" based on the classic fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, "THE GHOST WHO SAVED BROADWAY" a tribute to vaudeville and the BROADWAY of the past with an original story by Michael L. Ricciardi. Our Christmas musicals include "A MOMENT WITH MISTER "C" (in which we meet a Santa Claus a little different than we remember him) and "THE INVITATION" (a classic story about a man who was once a hero, but gave up everything to preserve Christmas) Over SIX HUNDRED SONGS exist in our musical catalog and that list can be seen at the ASCAP site( www.ascap.com) on the ACE DATA BASE. We can provide instrumentalists and Mr. Doran can provide amazing organ accompanyment for any wedding or funeral. Contact us today. We accept mail at 6717 Fulton Avenue Suite #1 Van Nuys California 91401. Michael can by contacted through this web site or at songwriter2day@aol.com. Mr. Tim Doran can be reached at timcdoran@aol.com. Our newest musical "SEVENLY" (co- wriiten with JOHN D. NUGENT) is now ready for readings. Other musicals being developed include "THE RUNAWAY HEART" "THE WILD SWANS" (based on yet another Hans Christian Andersen story) and a rewrite of "SKYLARK" "BROADWAY ANGELS" and "YOUNG MCDONALD" will soon be available. Just in the starting stages is "THE SHADOW OF FREEDOM" a musical telling of the one American who voted his conscience and saved our country--perhaps single-handedly. His name was Edmund G. Ross, junior senator from the state of Kansas who was featured in John Kennedy's Pulitizer Prize winning novel "Profiles in Courage". The year was 1868: the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States. His only crime was keeping alive the philosophy and the Reconstruction of this nation by Abraham Lincoln. three songs and twenty pages of libretto have been completed. Also in the planning stages is VALENTINE a miusical telling of the great saint whose name is synonimous with the great February holiday! A new catalog is available for schools and college theatre departments to examine. Our artists include BILL LEWIS, DAVID MEINKE and ADAM SIMMONS. Our recording studio is SMOOTH SOUNDS in Van Nuys, Ca. 91601. Mr. Robert Roth is our engineer.
LITTLE BIT OF BROADWAY TAKING SHAPE - July 26, 2008
Work continues on the new musical for CREATIVE HORIZONS. It's a small cast, simple set musical called "A LITLE BIT OF BROADWAY" and the writing on the libretto is almost finished while the score continues to progress as well. Songs from this musical include "OPPORTUNITY" . "THAT'S THE WAY THE COOKIES CRUMBLE", "WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND and "THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF BROADWAY IN ALL OF US". The story concerns a famous "Tin Pan Alley" songwriter named Chester Moore who was a contemporary of Irving Berlin , Al Sherman and Jerome Kern. He's never had the opportunity to write a Broadway show. Months before his own demise, Chester is given a chance to write the finale song for a troubled musical. It makes the show a smash and the songwriter is so delighted that he changes his will to bequeth the rights to his many songs to the performers of this show. Theirs is the opportunity of a lifetime. They get to be the writers, the actors and the producers of a musical biography of one of the greatest song writers who ever lived. Exciting theatre at its best! More news later! This will be an exciting show!
HUNTINGTON OUTDOOR AMPETHEATRE EXPRESS INTEREST IN TWO SHOWS - July 25, 2008
Huntington Outdoor Theatre in West Virginia has expressed an interest in two of our shows. The first is "The Traveling Companion" based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen and the other is "The Runaway Heart: which tells the story of Jenny Lancer-- the girl who's left six bridegrooms at the altar in the same small Georgia town. It is up to Professor Time, Professor Fate and Lady Luck to teach her the lesson she needs to learn. More details later.
KNOCK KNOCK ON HEAVEN'S DOOR - July 18, 2008
Creative Horizons has begun work on another musical property this time it's KNOCK, KNOCK ON HEAVEN'S DOOR"-- a musical revue that relates just what might have happened as some of the famously notorious of world history tried to talk their way into heaven. Book, music and lyrics will be by Michael Ricciardi and John D. Nugent. The first song "You Wouldn't Believe" is now completed.