Alan Sanborn writes the scripts, lyrics and tunes for the shows as well as designing the productions, building the sets (with help) and starring in each show!
Tim and Tom Zehnder have created the orchestrations, performed the music and sung back-ups for the following shows: Hallowe'en Hysteria (1990) and The Ballad of Jack of the Lantern (1995).
Tim Zehnder has also created the orchestrations, and performed the music for The Ghosts Come Out on Hallowe'en (1993), The Witch's Daughter (1994) and co-performed these tasks with Chet Misner for The Crowning of the New Witch Queen (1996).
Mark Borne orchestrated and performed the score for A Hallowe'en Carol (1991).
Bob Hull orchestrated and performed the score for Return to Monster Street (1997.)
Henry Lim has orchestrated and performed the music for The Eve of All Hallows (1999), 2000 Years of Hallowe'en (2000), Under a Pumpkin Moon (2001), What Hallowe'en Means To Me (2002), All Hallows Eve (2005) and The (Unauthorized) Legend of Sleepy Hollow (2006).
Jeremy Johnson orchestrated, conducted, and played on the songs for A Murder on Monster Street (2003) and orchestrated and performed the music for The Skeleton Dance (2004).
Cast Members over the years, along with Alan Sanborn, have included: Cindy Adams, Blake Arnold, Sandi Avoian, Richard Baltin, Richard Becker, Sage Barry, Patty Bobik, Laura Boedeker, Susie Brody, Wendy Brooks, Hal Cartrett, Lupa Chang, Simon Chernin, Rick Davis, Angel Dibonventura, Julie Esposito, Ian Fagan, Wendy Fonarow, Garrett Fox, Stan Fujii, Deborah Gerber, Jay Gerber, Bill Goodwin, Ginger Goss, Brian Gray, Audrey Harris, Bruce Heinsius, Paula Hightower, Bailey Spencer-Jackson, Clynell Jackson, Sheinera Jackson, Susan Keller, Karen Koenig, Noah Korda, Ron Lennstrom, Bonita Lessmann, George Lindsey Jr., Patrick Maherin, Mark Mazur, Max Mendez, Chet Misner, Laura Zehnder Misner, Jeff Moore, Kris Mukhurjee, Alec Niver, Vicki O'Melveny, Michael Perrick, Tom Robinson, Janet Sanborn, Lenita Sanborn, Graydon Schlicter, Carl Schuster, Dov Schwarz, Niles Schwarz, Susie Shannon, Bret Shefter, Alan Simpson, Laurie Simpson, Greg Smith, Sherry St. Pierre, Paul Straughn, Paul Subotic, Debbie Valenta, Rand Vossler, Warren Weitzenhoffer, Morgan Wessler, Scott Whitesell, Holly Wickenhagen, Lee Wilson, Robb Wolford, and Doug Workman. Many more appeared in the pre-1990 non-musical shows and countless more have helped build sets and run tech over the years.
Influences
Stephen Sondheim, Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Stephen Schwartz, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Bobby Boris Pickett.
Sounds Like
I like to think we sound like ourselves but the music ranges from folk to rock to Celtic to grand orchestral, but always with a strong Hallowe'en sensibility. If it had been offered as an option, I'd have classified it simply as "Hallowe'en Music"! It's always a little spooky and it always references that grandest of all nights, Hallowe'en!
Alan Sanborn and The All Hallows Players have been performing live original musical shows each Hallowe'en since 1990! Very soon, this will become the temporary default site for their album, Hallowe'en Hysteria and Other All Hallows Frolics, which was released last Hallowe'en.
Alan Sanborn has been haunting The Sanborn House in Westwood each Hallowe'en since 1975 but in 1990, the haunting of the local trick-or-treaters became a musical venture and The All Hallows Players were born!
The shows range from single songs such as Hallowe'en Hysteria and The Ballad of Jack of the Lantern to mini-musicals running anywhere from 20 to 50 minutes such as A Hallowe'en Carol, A Murder on Monster Street, and The (Unauthorized) Legend of Sleepy Hollow!
Seven of the single songs and one mini-musical have been compiled on the album, Hallowe'en Hysteria and Other All Hallows Frolics, along with a few bonus tracks!
Very soon you'll be able to buy this album from the site but, for now, if you're interested, just send us a message and we'll make the transaction!
Here are some photos taken by Bruce Heinsius of our most recent show, The (Unauthorized) Legend of Sleepy Hollow from 2006. We'll being adding more photos and videos from this and other shows soon!
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