I am looking for a composer to collaborate with me on a musical comedy about young Catholics in San Francisco. It is called, The Importance of Being Catholic: A musical comedy with some serious parts. Attached is a draft. There are the lyrics to 15 songs looking for a composer!

It is the story of two traditional Catholic women (identical twins) dating two non-Catholics and the comedy that ensues.  

My name is Fr. James Liebner, SVD and I am the parochial vicar at St Philip’s Church in San Francisco. 

I have written the lyrics to two previous musicals and collaborated with the Italian composer, Aurelio Porfiri, when we taught at St Joseph University in Macau, China.  Both musicals were performed on stage in Macau, and later made into movies with local students from Macau. They are on my Youtube account. 

Look All Around You is a musical on the life of Blessed Mary of the Passion, foundress of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. She was a missionary to India from France. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yCjDF3guhc
The musical begins at 3:35 after a spoken introduction. It has been viewed 13,000 times.

A second musical is A Mother's Heart: A Musical about the Apparition of the Blessed Mother in Fatima, Portugal, 1917.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEzxx6Ygcz4

The musical itself begins at: 7:15 after an introduction by the composer, Aurelio Porfiri.

All the actors in A Mother's Heart are grade school girls (except for a few adults in the musical). The opening scene attempts to show the tension between the celebratory aspect of the preparation of the Feast of the Ascension (May 17, 1917) COME GATHER TOGETHER, and the gloom in a country at war (Portugal entered WWI totally unprepared and had huge losses in a single battle) HOW CAN WE CELEBRATE?  Of course the first apparition takes place a few days before the feast of the Ascension that year, 1917. The visual of some young girls (performed by an all-girls grade school) dressed up as soldiers perhaps was not as frightening enough to convey the tension in the first songs to set the stage for what would follow. 

But back to my reason for writing you,  if you or someone you know might be interested in collaborating with me in such a project, please let me know.

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Sincerely,

Fr James Liebner
love4china@yahoo.com