News From
Misha's Studio
May 2008
Feature Films
Spring 41 *In the Studio*
.Inspired by short stories from Ida Fink (screenplay by Motti Lerner), Israel's first Oscar-nominated director, Uri Barbash, brings to life the heroine Clara, as she looks back 30 years to the horrors, humiliations and compromising positions she and her young husband (played by Joseph Fiennes) and children experience hiding from the Nazis in Poland, compelled to take shelter in the house of a lonely, romantic woman who tears the family apart in the name of survival. The first ever Israeli-Polish co-production, the film is set against the awakening of the Polish Spring.
Directed by Uri Barbash
Music by Misha Segal
Dylan Cash (Chaz in Opposite Day) holds his
Outstanding Young Ensemble in a New Medium award for The Polar Express
Opposite Day *In the Studio*
Two children learn a valuable lesson when on a trip out of town with their grandparents, they boldly claim that kids would do a much better job of ruling the world than adults. The children get their chance, when a near mad scientist inadvertently includes them in an experiment gone terribly wrong.*
Directed by R. Michael Givens
Music by Misha Segal
Sofya Skya at the Annual Hollywood
Hero Award Gala; photo courtesy of dailyceleb.com
During a rescue operation in Iraq, Special Forces member Max Forester (Mark Dacascos) is devastated when Sasha (Sofya Skya), his squad mate and fiance, goes missing.*
Directed by Bill Cole
Music by Misha Segal
Not an FBI surveillance shot of
Director Lance Kawas
True story of how the FBI brought down one of Detroit's heaviest mobsters. Executive Producer, Mark Bierlein, based the screenplay on the book by former FBI agent, Phil Kerby, With Honor and Purpose. Shooting has begun in Michigan.
Directed by Lance Kawas
Music by Misha Segal
The two chefs of Good Intentions
Heating Up with Good Intentions
*In the Studio*
Once again, Misha joins with Oscar-nominated director, Uri Barbash, for this series of 12 episodes. Good Intentions centers around two female chefs, Palestinian and Israeli, co-hosting a cooking show despite intense opposition from their respective communities. (Food Network, please direct all inquiries to Misha Segal Productions.)
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Directed by Uri Barbash
Music by Misha Segal
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Kate del Castillo
Photo: Michael Grecco
Heating Up the Web
Misha will be scoring the new web series from producer Carlos Sotomayor, starring Kate del Castillo. Shooting begins in June.
Produced by Carlos Sotomayor
Music by Misha Segal
Official poster
Lies My Father Told Me
A few years ago, Misha was involved as composer in the Westwood Playhouse Theatre reading of Ted Allan's Oscar-nominated screenplay, Lies My Father Told Me, directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Martin Landau and Jack Klugman.
We are pleased to announce Misha has created a team of four partners to produce Lies My Father Told Me as a Broadway musical; Misha is joined by Julie Allan (Ted Allan's daughter), Edmund Gaynes and Alan Roberts.**
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Edmund Gaynes: Off-Broadway Producer ("The Rise of Dorothy Hale," "Picon Pie," "Chaim's Love Song," Einstein"), runs four N.Y. theaters including The Theatres At 45 Bleecker St., now showing Ethan Coen's play "Almost An Evening" starring F. Murray Abraham.
Alan Roberts: Librettist, is an indie film producer-writer-editor ("Fighting Words," "Grand Theft Parsons," "Deterrence") and has performed on Broadway ("Gypsy," "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"). Alan has directed and choreographed for the UCLA Musical Comedy Workshop and The Long Beach Civic Light Opera.
Misha hugs Mama
Love Your Mama
This year, Mother's Day is Sunday, May 11.
We know how much you love your mama...so much that you'd send her, undisputably, one of the top romantic composers of our day to deliver a private concert of music so gentle, calming and profound that afterwards listeners feel they've taken a long vacation, no? Giving her Misha's Female CDs is the next best thing to having him show up at your favorite mother's door; don't delay....
Buy her Misha's solo piano collection, Female, comprised of music he played for his mother, Elisabeth.
Proof Female would be a most treasured gift.
Listen to samples of...
Female | Female: Part II | Female: Part III
Order Female now for Mother's Day.
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Christine's Kidnap, from Phantom of the Opera
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Manuscripts
If you're the aficionado who loves to peruse a score with your fingertips as well as your ears, you may be interested in purchasing a copy of one of Misha's complete manuscripts detailing his original music— from the days when music was written with a pencil on paper.
Most requested of these handwritten scores are Phantom of the Opera and The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking. For both projects, Misha conducted the 80-piece Budapest Symphony Orchestra. But feel free to request the manuscripts of any of Misha's scores, and if we've got it in the vault, we'll be happy to copy it for you.
Don Juan Triumphant
Due to the numerous requests for the sheet music to Misha's arietta Don Juan Triumphant, it is now available in PDF.*Opposite Day and Shadows in Paradise captions courtesy of Baseline Studio Systems.
© 2008 Misha Segal Productions
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