A Self-Proclaimed Dreamer

Galavant has to be one of my favorite musical comedy series of all time. The music is great, the comedy is hilarious, and the music is GREAT. ABC took a risk on this series back in 2015 and again a year later with a second season, despite the first season not getting nearly as many views as it deserved. The reason for the network's trust of the series comes from the songwriter of the show, Alan Menken. I've always said that people should know Menken's name, and even if you don't know who he is, I can guarantee that you've heard something written by him. Alan Menkin is responsible for the music from Little Shop of Horrors , Newsies, plus most of the Disney films since 1989, when The Little Mermaid came out. Menkin wrote for Hercules, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Tangled, and was originally tapped to write for Disney's film based on Hans Christian Anderson's tale of "The Ice Queen," which eventually became Frozen , and which he di...

Hi everyone,  My name is Jonathan Bowers and this is a new experiment for me. I've been trying to learn more about myself in these past few months, but I don't know how to do that. I'm going to be honest, I meant to start a blog or a Youtube channel a long time before now (Still planning the Youtube channel, and writing scripts for that), but it's taken a long time to actually do anything about it and I couldn't think of a name for a long time. I decided to go with "A Self-Proclaimed Dreamer" because I have a lot of ideas, thoughts, and other things, but I don't share them with anyone, they just live in my head (and laptop), so no one else would really call me much of a dreamer unless I know them super well. That's part of what this is about, I guess, sharing my thoughts with others. That means opinions, ideas for writing, and excitement about various different upcoming projects are all on the table. Upcoming projects is a phrase which here means,...