Carmel Dean’s third Broadway song blog

Australia’s Carmel Dean has been living and working on Broadway for the last ten years as an arranger, musical director and composer.

A graduate of the Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts, Dean has been working  hard to produce a regular ‘song blog’ which features Broadway stars singing her new material.

Project Song Blog #3 – My House

Song blog #3 features Chip Zien singing ‘My House’ composed by Carmel Dean with lyrics by  fellow Australian (and NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program alumni) Anna K. Jacobs.

Chip (whom I’ve now seen perform in several musicals and plays here in New York) is innately funny, has great instincts and I knew he would be able to bring his natural charm and self-deprecating humor to the song. I was lucky enough to have been introduced to him several years ago, so when I contacted him about ‘My House’ I was thrilled when he agreed to sing it. He not only exceeded my expectations for the song, but in hearing his voice, I instantly remembered lying on my childhood bedroom floor, being taken on a magnificent musical journey through fairy tales and beyond, hoping that someday I could be a part of that world. My inner teenage musical theatre nerd is still squealing with delight.  Carmel Dean