For Jamestown Revival, penning music for ‘The Outsiders’ on Broadway ‘made us better songwriters’

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The duo from outside of Houston are up for two Tony Awards this Sunday.

S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age novel “The Outsiders” has had a few adaptations – probably the most memorable is the 1983 movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Its most recent adaptation, a broadway musical,

But they were looking for a band that was not from the theater world. And I think our name came across the desk and they reached out to us and wanted to know if we could write a couple songs on spec just to see what it would sound like. Then they were like, “this is what we’re looking for; this is what we want.” And that was one of the last songs in the musical. It’s the song that Johnny sings in his letter to Ponyboy. And that was the very first song we wrote for it.

You know, what she did, it works, obviously. It’s tried and true, and it’s proven. We had a roadmap and a true north right in front of us. So that’s what we used.There’s so many great little phrases or lines or little tentpole moments that allowed us to sort of pinpoint when we were brainstorming or mapping where we wanted songs, and there’s so many great phrases to pull from that ended up being sort of the spark behind the song.

Right now, at the present moment, how much is the show a part of your lives? Or have you moved on to other creative endeavors, by and large?We actually got in the studio for Jamestown Revival stuff last week, which was really fun, and it just highlighted how much we’ve actually missed doing that.

 

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