Personnel

Oingo Boingo

• Danny Elfman
  Danny Elfman
  Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film. Up until 1995, he was the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band Oingo Boingo, a group he formed in 1976...
  
   - lead vocals
  Lead vocalist
  The lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...
  
  
• Steve Bartek
  Steve Bartek
  Steve Bartek, born in Garfield Heights, Ohio on January 30, 1952, is an American guitarist, film composer, conductor and orchestrator.-Early career:...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
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• Richard Gibbs
  Richard Gibbs
  Richard “Ribbs” Gibbs is an American film composer and music producer whose credits include the films Sweet Hearts Dance, Dr...
  
   - keyboards
  Musical keyboard
  A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
  
  
• Kerry Hatch - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Leon Schneiderman - baritone and alto saxophones
• Sam "Sluggo" Phipps - tenor and soprano saxophones
• Dale Turner - trumpet, trombone

Musical

In 2006, Andrew Loschert wrote a musical play entitled Only a Lad. The play was premiered at the 10th Annual New York International Fringe Festival

New York International Fringe Festival

The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, is a Fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America. It takes place over the course of two weeks every August, spread across several neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan, notably the Lower East Side, the...

and ran from August 11 to 27, 2006.

The play takes place in 1984, and is about a young man named Johnny who gets in a fight over a girl named Mary, accidentally killing someone in a drunken rage. His lawyer claims in court that he is not guilty due to mental defect — society made him do it. Despite the defense being accepted in the court, Mary wants Johnny to stand up for what he did and take responsibility.