Roger Wainwright Music Directory
The Roger Wainwright Music Directory is not a single staged production but a music archive — the catalog of original songs, orchestrations, and recordings that Roger Wainwright composed for the musicals he and Ken Bradbury created together. Ken wrote and directed the shows; Wainwright wrote the music, and the directory is named and cataloged for the composer. It centers on David; You and I, a sung-through musical retelling of the David story, and also holds music for Camp Sunshine, the Just Imagine / Imagine material, and a Doo-Wop set, along with standalone arrangements and orchestrations.
The archive gathers finished tracks, rehearsal vocals, and instrumental orchestrations side by side — polished mixes alongside raw working files such as an opening violin take and finale vocals. Together they trace how the songs grew from melody lines into fully scored numbers across recording sessions of roughly 2007 and 2008.
Productions Represented
- David; You and I — a sung-through musical on King David, with seventeen numbered, titled tracks plus a radio ad and a separate eight-track orchestrations folder.
- Just Imagine / Imagine — the Just Imagine set, a revised Imagine version, and a separate finale-vocals session.
- Camp Sunshine — a recorded set of numbered tracks.
- Doo-Wop — including "Stand Up" and an Act I finale stomp.
Songs
Songs catalogued across the archive:
- Not a Good Sign
- Show Me the King
- You and I
- Bathsheba
- Where Do I Go
- Lullaby for Solomon
- War War War
- Enough Is Enough
- It's So Great to Be King
- Hard Roads
- So Spectacular
- If I Were the Judge
- Do You Know
- I Believe
- Show Me the Way
- It's Time
- We Can Fly
- Live Your Dream
- Plain Folks
- Night in Paradise
- Daisy
- National Anthem
- Just Imagine (Finale)
- Just Imagine (ballad, Jess vocal)
- Stand Up
- Act I Finale Stomp
- Shine On
- Do You Love Me
- Dogwood Boy theme
- The Bystanders
- Chapin violin opening
Cast
- Donn Stephens — worked vocals with others at the David; You and I rehearsal.
Beyond this, the named cast of the individual productions is not recovered in the archive.
Production Notes
- Music composed by Roger Wainwright. Ken Bradbury wrote and directed the shows the music was written for — blocking, scene direction, and casting at the JTG office rehearsals.
- The definitive title from the archive's
metadata.jsonis exactly "Roger Wainwright Music Directory"; the metadata note states it "appears to be Roger Wainwright's music archive directory rather than a specific show production." - The archive contains 79 audio files in MP3, WAV, and WMA formats across seven subdirectories: Camp Sunshine, David- You and I, David...orchestrations..8, Doo-Wop, Imagine..revised, Just Imagine, and Just Imagine finale vocals.
- The David- You and I production has 17 numbered, titled tracks plus a radio ad and a separate 8-track orchestrations folder.
- Standalone files at the directory root: "Shine On," "Do You Love Me," "Dogwood Boy" theme, "The Bystanders," a Chapin violin opening, and three Imagine tracks.
- A parallel copy of the same archive lives in Ken's iTunes library organized under artist "Roger Wainwright," with albums Camp Sunshine, Camp Sunshine Gloria's song, David_ You and I, David...orchestrations..8, Genesis, Imagine..revised, Just Imagine, and Just Imagine finale vocals — corroborating that the directory is cataloged as Roger Wainwright's music for Ken's shows.
- Recording/photo window: 2007–2008. The cover photo, comp roger.jpg, is dated August 8, 2007.
- A first-person JTG memory by Roger Wainwright recounts the first rehearsal night of David; You and I at the JTG office — watching Ken block a scene, hearing Donn Stephens working vocals with others, and seeing young performers learning the choreography from a CD. The semicolon spelling "David; You and I" appears in both that memory and the placard in the cover photo; the archive folder uses "David- You and I."
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