You Are My Song is Book Three in The Carousel Trilogy. The nineteen-fifties. Elvis is wearing "Blue Suede Shoes." Country music reigns supreme at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville. But in a small Tennessee town Jamie Logan - a good-hearted young man with a superb tenor voice - stars in his high school's musical theater production and begins an unlikely, almost magical journey that could take him to the pinnacle of the opera world. The path is far from simple. Jamie just wants to sing. He is ill-prepared for the jealousy, rivalry and politics he encounters on his way. Family crises and even a...

"More Fog, Please" - 31 Years Directing Community and High School Musicals -- is exactly that, memories of over thirty of the eighty musical theater shows Susan Moore Jordan directed from 1984 to 2015. "There's no question where the buck stops in a theater production," Jordan says, but she adds, "There are many people mentioned in these pages, because none of these shows could have happened without them." Each chapter begins with the "Director's Note" that appeared in the printed program for the show, and Jordan informally discusses the productions. She highlights the events - some exciting,...

How I Grew Up is Book One in "The Carousel Trilogy," stories of three friends whose lives were changed by one event when they were high school students. "You'll Never Walk Alone." The words from that song in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel held an especially poignant meaning for Melanie Stewart, who went on stage in the leading role of Julie Jordan mere weeks after her parents were victims of a senseless murder, perpetrated by her own sister's troubled husband. She was just eighteen, a high school senior who dreamed of Hollywood stardom and her first real kiss. With the support of her two...