Hello friends,

I'm proud to announce that my off-broadway debut (The New Hopeville Comics) has officially opened. It is a new rock-opera set in the town of Hopeville, and getting quite the buzz. We've been jammed packed and sold-out the last several preview shows, and a well deserved standing ovation followed by a champagne toast last night.

I'm ( Read more... )

Currently in rehearsals for Thoroughly Modern Millie as one of the Chinese "henchmen" characters (Bun Foo), and I get to speak in complete Cantonese and sing in Madarin! It's crazy funny.

It's playing at the Gallery Players, where many Broadway veterans made their start, so that's pretty sweet. :) And the hype that the event is generating in NYC is ( Read more... )

If you happen to be in the Metro New York area, please come see me play Peter, in a unique re-telling of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, set to children's text and musical theatre form. Playing Saturdays and Sundays (noon and 2pm) from now until November 9th! $20, $50 (premium front row and signed playbills!), or ask to be put on my list for the ( Read more... )

It's been quite a significant amount of time since I've written in this livejournal. I do frequent the site... it's actually STILL set to my homepage, but I've moved into a realm of professional work where I no longer feel as if my personal life should be as public as it was back in college ( Read more... )

i'll be in town this week ( Read more... )

check out the media link on my website. web.mac.com/jayparanada

this tour rocks my life.

so i'm in phoenix arizona. i met up with a friend who left PLU the end of our freshman year, one of my best friends at the time, joel ( Read more... )

i wonder if i'll ever find him. or him find me, rather.

I dont get many things right the first time
In fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
Brought me here

And where was I before the day
That I first saw your lovely face?
Now I see it everyday
And I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

rehearsals for JBJ start this morning at 10AM at Chelsea Studios. I can't believe I'm 2 weeks out from tour. It's surreal, but I have to make sure I have my housing settled in before I head out. It's the one last piece of stress going thru my mind right now ( Read more... )