{"id":3571,"date":"2021-02-26T00:52:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T08:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hinote.it\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2021-03-12T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T17:51:10","slug":"hinote-live-4-with-drew-gasparini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hinote.it\/blog\/hinote-live-4-with-drew-gasparini\/","title":{"rendered":"HiNOTE LiVE #4 with Drew Gasparini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hinote.it\/drewgasparini\/\">Request a personalized video message from Drew Gasparini HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Award-winning Broadway composer and singer\/songwriter Drew Gasparini joins us this week! We discuss writing the Broadway adaptation of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playbill.com\/article\/a-musical-adaptation-of-the-karate-kid-is-in-the-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Karate Kid<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, his new podcast \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/broadwaypodcastnetwork.com\/podcast\/now-were-talking-with-drew-gasparini\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now We\u2019re Talking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d and staying driven during a pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s been overwhelming to the point of tears that I\u2019m privileged enough to have this job,\u201d Gasparini shares about his large contributions to\u00a0Broadway adaptation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playbill.com\/article\/a-musical-adaptation-of-the-karate-kid-is-in-the-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>The Karate Kid<\/i><\/a>\u00a0 &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you drill toward the heart, that\u2019s what\u2019s gonna make a good musical.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gasparini has been working closely alongside <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Mark_Kamen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robert Mark Kamen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, screenwriter of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Karate_Kid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Karate Kid<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He was flown out to Okinawa, Japan to learn directly from Japanese composers and gain more cultural insight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We talk about the toll that the pandemic is taking on the theatre industry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs a writer, I am doing my best to make sure that there is a mountain of material so that when theatres open up, I can say &#8211; producers, directors, actors &#8211; HERE! Take it, make something!&#8221; Gasparini explains. &#8220;I try to create whenever I feel the inspiration to do so during these scary times to make sure that there is a Renaissance at the end of this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gasparini currently hosts a podcast \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/broadwaypodcastnetwork.com\/podcast\/now-were-talking-with-drew-gasparini\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now We\u2019re Talking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d where he learns quirks about his Broadway colleagues that \u201cyou wouldn\u2019t find on Google.\u201d Tune in to hear about their hopes, dreams &#8211; and pet peeves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CLxFAJgHIJD\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> + <a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/48JcWp7Q1Y\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Request a personalized video message from Drew Gasparini HERE. Award-winning Broadway composer and singer\/songwriter Drew Gasparini joins us this week! We discuss writing the Broadway adaptation of The Karate Kid, his new podcast \u201cNow We\u2019re Talking,\u201d and staying driven during a pandemic. \u201cIt\u2019s been overwhelming to the point of tears that I\u2019m privileged enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":3614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinote.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinote.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinote.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinote.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinote.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hinote.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinote.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinote.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinote.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}