Giving Up Later
Acquired Taste Productions
Songs and stories about choices and sacrifices.
SHOW DESCRIPTION
Giving Up Later is the title of one of my songs and only sung once, "giving up later is the cost of today…that’s the price we pay." To me it means, giving up possible futures by the choices we make, sacrificing ourselves for love, offering our "laters" to those we wish would love us, and even very literally how my father's suicide has affected my family. Surrendering our future selves for the sake of others is what every parent and lover has ever done.
ARTIST/COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
Adam Wagner is a 2005 CCM Musical Theater grad. Unable to afford piano lessons, he is self-taught and began to write songs in 2001. In June 2005, he presented an original revue, Don’t Look Down, as part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. The show received the Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Best Alternative Production and a Cincinnati Enquirer Acclaim Award. Traci’s Song premiered in NYC at the MAC/ASCAP Songwriters’ Showcase and Things to Chase: A Composer’s Showcase. Adam attended the Composers Stage Project as part of the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and was regularly mentored by the program’s director, Craig Carnelia. In 2006, he introduced himself as a songwriter to the New York community in An Evening of (mostly) True Songs at the Laurie Beechman Theater, featuring the Broadway talents of Andrea Burns and Justin Bohon. Adam is now making his first attempt to write lyrics in collaboration with his friends, Benjamin Magnuson (book) and Zachary Dietz (music), on a full-scale book musical. As an actor, he can be seen as Phil in the film, TEETH, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
PREVIOUS FRINGES
Cincinnati Fringe
'AND THE FRINGIEST PART IS ...'
In 2005, Cincinnati audiences were the first to hear my songs in public. Don’t Look Down was well-received and award-winning. After three years of rewrites and new stories to tell, Giving Up Later reminds us of our choices and sacrifices by combining funny, heartbreaking musical theater storytelling with young, exciting CCM talent.
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reviews
+ The Enquirer review (June 2, 2008)
+ CityBeat review (June 3, 2008)