Charlie Sohne makes most of his money teaching musical theatre, not from royalties on his song "Boy Can Dance On Air." He relies on freelance gigs like playing piano and music-directing to build connections with singers and orchestrators, which leads to more work.
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Most of the hours I'm not trying to make money doing something, I'm working on our stuff, right? In some aspect of it. And like, just because that's the nature of, you know, we're not— I can't survive off of, off of the royalties from Boy Can Dance On Air. Boy Can Dance On Air is not supporting my lifestyle right now, believe it or not. Every once in a while we make $4 on a piece of sheet music. Oh, that's really lovely. That's always nice. I eat lunch this week.
The best thing for me has been teaching, and it's about musical theater, is great.
And I have been really fortunate because I play piano for things and I music direct musical theater, which is kind of an amazing combination because I get to meet a lot of people that I can ask to sing our songs.
Yeah, it's been super useful.
You know, and meet music directors and meet orchestrators and stuff that way, and people who I'm I'm so grateful to know them, and that's how I met them was through the freelancing. So it's great, and it kind of feeds into— it all feeds into itself.
