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Stanley Sweil, Play This Way’s Vice President of Licensing and Business Development is looking for a platform to bring more awareness to their brand and products. We just introduced them to our new program called Building A Brand (in addition to the Play Pretty, Play Pals documentary) as a potential strategic offering. We’re currently producing six (6) unique episodes to air on Wealth TV (www.wealthtv.com).

We’ve designated 4 of 6 episodes to highlight clients (i.e. innovative people, brands, companies, products, etc.) to join the show’s premise.

Authors Dr. Ervin Ray Deloney, Dr. Neal Zeigler, and Dr. Daryl McClendon have commissioned the creative publishing expertise of SURRON to create an ebook cover and typesetting design on their latest book called Japan’s Nuclear Crisis: Understanding and Reducing your Radiation Risk.

Deloney Publishing Group is a medical publishing company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company is dedicated to educating both young and old on relevant health topics, through creative formats, utilizing all forms of media; including print, film, television, audio and the internet. The company also provides support for health products and authors in the form of medical write-ups and ghost writing.

The Making of Lil’ Chucky Charley & His Country Bug Friends documentary brought together some of the most gifted musicians, artists, and talent to the New England area to work with SURRON on the children storybook-music CD project.

Ten songs were performed by Ron Surrey with special guest appearances by Watina Barnes, Val Fairley, Jean Michelle Grier, Joshua Jackson, and Chris Horton our pianist and organist extraordinaire.

1. Lil’ Chucky Charley 2. Mr. Boll Weevil 3. Junebug On A String 4. Sweet Potato Pie 5. Catch The Lightning Bug 6. God Loves Common Things 7. The Hen House 8. Doodlebug Baker 9. After The Ugly Bug Ball 10. Daddy Longlegs

Listen to sample streaming clips

And a special shout-out to our Ace Bon Coon (Asa “Ace” Livingston) for bringing the mean bass guitar and a repertoire of bug character voices.

2011 ‘Tony For Young Actors’ Award Recipients Join Play Pal, Play Pretty Project We’re now in full production on the Play Pretty, Play Pals Music CD and documentary project. Our crew filmed the recording session with members of The Lion King cast who have agreed to participate in the program.

1.  KHAIL TOI BRYANT (The Lion King), starred in the movie ‘The Perfect Holiday’
2.  EDEN SANAA DUNCAN-SMITH (The Lion King), 2011 winner of ‘Tony for young actors’
3.  JOSHUA JACKSON (The Lion King)
4.  ALPHONSO JONES, JR. (The Lion King), 2011 winner of ‘Tony for young actors’
5.  JEAN MICHELLE GRIER (The Lion King)

We’re also thinking we should leverage this relationship on a BIGGER level by illustrating the likeness of our former NBA dancer (Camille Jones) and Broadway Stars into the new book project.

Ron Eugene Surrey AKA Little Charles, is currently developing his 2nd children storybook-music CD project called Lil’ Chucky Charley & His Country Bug Friends™, which is based on his life growing up as an 8 year old boy in Macon, GA.

We found these photos of Little Charles with one of his favorite guitars, then added a few bug friendly lyrics to his acoustic sound and let the adventures begin.

Listen to first recording of June Bug On A String

Author Patricia Tomberlin-Hightower has signed a co-production/marketing agreement with SURRON to develop a series of educational products around the Play Pretty, Play Pals books already self-published. Because of the various projects that we’re looking to produce (i.e. Storybook-Music CD, Documentary Film, Animation Series, etc.), the goal is to introduce the program in 3 phases:

Phase 1

Development of 4 new book titles (Teasing, Tattle Tale, Respect For Others, Bullying), which contain 27 new Play Pretty, Play Pals characters (by March 15th, 2011), and production on a music CD project containing 6 original songs (by April 21st, 2011).

Phase 2

Illustrator Shawna Malone, has signed a contract with us to develop the characters and illustrate all four new book titles + a storybook-music CD package. Our plan is to engage and secure funding from a sponsor or investor to support the entire PPPP production, distribution, and marketing program.

Phase 3

Once funding for the PPPP Educational program is partially or fully secured we will work to finish producing the storybook-music CD project, documentary film, website development, and 4 books. God willing…Our goal is to develop the entire program by the end of 2011/Spring 2012.

Dr. Noto, a Pain Management Specialist, really cares about his patients (Pat, Mark, Nurse Morgan, Michele, Val). He never treats them as just another number, but as an individual. His methods to find the least intrusive, most effective treatment regiment for each of his patients has been encouraging and puzzling at times.

What causes chronic pain? How is it diagnosed? How is it treated?

Listen to Mind On Healing original score

The 14th Annual Hollywood Pitch Festival is in LA from July 31st & August 1st and our flight is scheduled for 7:50 PM out of Hartford today. We decided at the last minute to register to attend so that we could pitch the Little Charles screenplay, book, and other projects we’re currently producing.

We get 14 meetings total for both Saturday and Sunday to make a great first impression. Say a prayer for us!

A Tribute to Billie Holiday starring Kathy Sledge is a musical journey of an American icon of her day who rose to become a social phenomenon in the 1950s. Holiday’s soulful, unique singing voice and her ability to boldly turn any material that she confronted into her own music made her a superstar of her time.

Last week as part of the We Are Family TV productions, Kathy Sledge celebrated Billie’s masterpieces, creativity and vivacity, through the channeling of her songs, which are as well known today as they were decades ago.

Travel back with us as we deliver a reincarnation of Lady Day’s poignant voice: A style still considered to be one of the greatest jazz voices of all time.

Last year, we produced 9 LIVE Competitions in NYC for Behind The Chinese 9, which consisted of:

1. International Chinese Classical Dance Competition
2. Chinese International Vocal Competition
3. Chinese International Violin Competition
4. Global Han Couture Design Competition
5. International Chinese Culinary Competition
6. International Chinese Traditional Martial Arts Competition
7. Chinese International Piano Competition
8. Chinese International Photography Competition
9. Chinese International Figure Painting Competition

Each Competition was developed as its own unique story, which can be edited as nine (9) 1/2 hour episodes, a 3 Part Documentary series (1 hour each), and/or a reality TV program pilot. All footage was filmed with multiple HD cameras.

1. The Competitors – A Call To Dance*
2. A Day In The Life of a Bel Canto Vocalist
3. In The Hands of a Master Violinist
4. The Tradition of Han Fu* (also part of Couture Fashion Week Fashion Show at Waldorf Astoria)
5. The Way of Wu With Master Abdul
6. Iron Wok – The Culinary Competition* (preliminaries were held in Taiwan)
7. Behind The Piano With Coco Chen
8. I AM Edward – A Chinese Photographer
9. The Art of Figure Painting Reporting