REQUESTING A FAVOR

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Back in 2004, Irvine High School staged the condensed version of a musical I had written entitled Americans All, and also took it on the road to several middle schools to perform it during assembly periods. And Vanguard University of Southern California performed the full-length version on their regular season. This show was meant to help mentor our young people, and it was well received. For example, I included something that I used during some real juvenile delinquency cases where I would ask the subjects if they thought the friends they hung out with would be successful ten years from now. Most of the time the subjects said they didn’t think so. Then my follow-up statement was: “Well, don’t you realize that if you continue hanging out with them you probably won’t be successful either. So let me tell you a secret in life: you show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.” Americans All is laden with lessons like that. And I have more recently written a musical entitled Convention: the Birth of America, which is about our 1787 Constitutional Convention. I am truly proud of this show and have a full script as well as a cd of the songs. But it has never been performed.

Now that I am getting up there in years and am looking back upon parts of my life, the thing that is most important to me that remains undone is to have these musicals widely performed . Accordingly, I am requesting a favor for each of you to go to my website, which is www.JudgeJimGray.com, click on my two shows and watch Americans All and/or listen to the songs of Convention: the Birth of America. I think you will enjoy them. And then I am requesting all of you who have contacts with any schools or theater groups which present live musicals that you help me by contacting people in those institutions and familiarizing them with these two shows. I am offering them to be performed without any royalties, because I just want them to be enjoyed. And if any group is truly interested in the shows I would consider donating the royalties to that institution. So thank you for your consideration and if we find some homes for these shows, I believe that literally everyone will benefit!

(Sign at an Optometrist’s Office: “If you don’t see what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the right place . . .”)

Judge Jim Gray (Ret.) Superior Court of Orange County, California 2012 Libertarian Candidate for Vice President

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