Rick Knight Nominated
for GLAMA Award

Rick Knight is a self-taught keyboardist and composer, born in Tampa. He grew up listening to pop music from The Beatles to Barbra Streisand and began playing piano by ear at age 10 emulating the styles of Carole King, Steely Dan and the Carpenters. He performed in local bands and plays through his teens and twenties. The Rainbow Room is loosely based on experiences Rick had as a moonlighting cabaret singer in Southern California during the late eighties.

In 1996, he took a five month sabbatical, during which the play and the first four musical numbers came to fruition. All fourteen songs on the CD were composed, arranged, and performed by Rick with guest vocalists Tom Ochoa (Chaz) and Robin Minnerly (Sonia).

In the realm of musical theater, he most admires the work of Alan Menken, and Stephen Sondheim and their collaborators. Choosing a semi-autobiographical backdrop for his first play, Rick attempts to convey life passages and to bring the personal feelings of what it means to be gay to a place where they can be observed and understood.

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Rick Knight

The Goal and Mission

It is our desire to create an artistic endeavor of impeccable quality and provide a full spectrum of audience appeal. This show will have crossover draw to theater going audiences of all sexual orientations. We intend to create a theatrical masterpiece that will resound in the hearts of the audience creating new understanding of brotherly love and healing among divergent groups.


About the Play ~ About the Songs ~ Order Rick Knight's CD ~ Lyrics

Read the GLAMA Press Release

Rick Knight is currently living in New York

 


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