An Original Composition for the Stage Musical
Step into the world of I LOVE MICKEY—click below to hear the theme
Lush with strings, brushed in velvet brass, and kissed by the midnight hush of a long-lost New York, the theme from I Love Mickey is a cinematic homage to the golden era of 1950s nightclub romance.
Inspired by the orchestrations of Nelson Riddle and the wistful lyricism of Henry Mancini, this melody walks the line between love letter and lullaby—echoing through Copacabana shadows, whiskey-lit hotel rooms, and the silent ache of a dancer’s final bow
It doesn’t shout. It sways.
It doesn’t chase. It lingers.
It’s not just music—it’s memory with a melody.
The Conductor in the Yellow Vest
Frank Sinatra didn’t just sing to an orchestra—he commanded it. Between 1946 and 1983, he fully conducted seven albums, and on many occasions, would take over mid-session, shaping the sound with his famously expressive hands. Nelson Riddle, his close collaborator, often spoke of this unconscious conducting—moments when Frank would sculpt a phrase out of the air, and the musicians would follow, no baton needed.
Producer Sonny Burke recalled, “He had the most graceful, expressive hands you could imagine, and the orchestra would obviously follow him like a hawk.” Peggy Lee called him “a marvelously sensitive conductor.” Sinatra, ever wry, described himself as “a frustrated conductor” and joked about commissioning concertos just to lead them.
The man in the yellow vest—seen conducting Tone Poems of Color—wasn’t playacting. He was shaping feeling into form. Just like Riddle. Just like we try to do now.
