The Dream Engine
The Dream Engine is the name of a music performance group created by Jim Steinman and Steven Rinkoff, first publicly presented in 2006.
His past work includes composing for the musical Tanz der Vampire, writing lyrics for the musical Whistle Down the Wind, writing all of the music and lyrics on the Meat Loaf albums Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and writing and/or producing material sung by such performers as Celine Dion, Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, Tina Arena, The Sisters of Mercy, Billy Squier and others.
In his December 28, 2006, blog entry, Jim Steinman mentioned Rinkoff's primary leadership role with the group.
Evan has been in many musical theater productions, including Les Misérables, Little Shop of Horrors, Dance of the Vampires (as a backup for Michael Crawford), Hello, Dolly!, Jesus Christ Superstar, Chess and many others.
Most notably, he played the title roles in the original Broadway production of Jekyll & Hyde, continuing for over 600 performances.
On this album, Caswell performed the very first recording of the song "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", which would later become a hit in 1996 with Celine Dion as the vocalist.
She performed "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Loving You's a Dirty Job but Somebody's Gotta Do It", which was a duet with Rob Evan.
In 2005, many of the same people who are involved in TDE (including Rob Evan, Elaine Caswell, Steve Margoshes and others) performed at live shows called Over the Top.
These were held in January 2005 at Joe's Pub in New York City, and then in June 2005 at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut.
Several of these performance shows, both as Over the Top and as The Dream Engine were bootlegged by fans and circulated on the internet, despite this being forbidden by Steven Rinkoff.
Rob Evan has a historical link to this organization, due to having been a recipient of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame Talent Award in 1989.
This is a list of songs TDE has performed at their live shows in 2006: "Is Nothing Sacred", "The Future Ain't What It Used to Be", the instrumental intro called "Great Boleros of Fire", "(It Hurts) Only When I Feel", "Loving You's a Dirty Job But Somebody's Got to Do It", "Safe Sex", "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are", the revised "Braver Than We Are" (alternate titles have been "An American Elegy" and "God's Gone A.W.O.L.
"), "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", "Not Allowed to Love", "Total Eclipse of the Heart", "What Part of My Body Hurts the Most", "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad", "We're Still the Children We Once Were", "Angels Arise", "Speaking in Tongues", "For Crying Out Loud".
The same website has said that the following songs have been recorded (perhaps as a demo only) and are at various stages of completion/consideration: "Not Allowed to Love", "In the Land of the Pig the Butcher is King", "Speaking in Tongues", "Confessions", "Seize the Night", "The Future Ain't What It Used to Be" and others.
The website has mentioned in the past that TDE has recorded to some extent the song "Cry to Heaven", as a vocal quartet.
The project brings new songs, new lyrics, and soaring new voices to the rock operatic imagination of Jim Steinman.
