Paul Tosh presents ◆ A Premium Solo Show ◆ tosh42.com
How to Kill the Narcissist
Intimate · Artistic · For Sophisticated AudiencesThe Work
Therapeutic, dramatic performance art — a lyrical journey or monologue & melody: looping piano and song.
This work is personal and cathartic — but in delivery becomes universal. The perspective broadens. I find myself more careful for the audience's sake than I ever am for my own. I still want to be honest, and inspire — but because of the privilege of doing so this way, getting to explore ideas in a way that makes a connection, you come to know and inspire yourself better, and more gently. It is an alchemy that feels like it comes from above.
See It For Yourself
A short preview of the show — the tone, the presence, the dramatic arc in miniature.
Show Poster
What You Will Hear
Each performance weaves together original composition, literary adaptation, dramatic storytelling, words of wisdom, and communal song into a single unbroken arc. Nothing is incidental. Every choice serves the theme.
Original Song Cycle — The Paper Gun Operetta
Words of Wisdom — Allegorical Allusions from the Gemara
Stories from the Road
Songs from Song Is The Play
Full Performances
Complete songs from the Paper Gun repertoire — each one its own small drama.
What People Say
"I especially like the substantive intellectual meaning that you weave into your music. You remind me of the inspiring Shlomo Carlebach ע״ש."Rabbi Daniel Lapin — RabbiDanielLapin.com
"It's Beatles, it's U2, it's Bob Dylan, Lenny Kravitz and Billy Joel, it's jazz — you write this style and that style — you have obviously been influenced by all the songs you have been playing through the years. The world would welcome something like this now with open arms. The songs are timeless. It's an album like Sgt. Pepper."Orna Wellman — Drama and English teacher, Canada — instagram.com/ornawellman
"Really good solid organic original material — it has to be experienced live. They're not simple in terms of structure nor in terms of emotional content."Miguel Cavazos — Session drummer, LA
"I can't believe the level of artistry you're bringing to the people in these residential homes. I bet they'd never seen anything like it before."Joe Tepperman — Author & theater writer
"Light, serious, fun. Paul's songs are alive — you have to live with them. Paul also sets the standard when it comes to camaraderie and healthy artistic sharing."Mesoud Benasuly — Session bass player, New York City
"I think I've listened to that song a hundred times — but that might be the first time I've actually heard it."Video testimonial — audience member
"Last night made me feel like the pre-WWII era of the arts in society! Loved it."Libby Fox (hostess) — Charleston home concert — swampfoxdockandmarine.com
"A poetic call to presence — reminding us that the pursuit itself is the purpose, and that love, more than anything, is the foundation of it all. So much fun to watch Paul's creative brain at work… a true pleasure."Amy Kirshtein — at Libby & Daniel's home concert
"This is as different a performance as anything I've seen in the Listening Room Network. It's really more performance art than musical performance — as much poetry as it is music. His piano playing is just exceptional."Listening Room Network — Audition Review, August 2025
From the audience —
For Whom & Where
This is not background music. It is not a dinner show. It is a performance that asks something of its audience — and gives a great deal more in return.
The Audience
The Venues
Investment
$2,500 Discounts available — circumstances considered.All-inclusive · Travel · Accommodation · Sound
Paul travels in a custom self-contained performance camper, making him available for venues across the entire United States and Canada — with no hotel riders, no staging requirements, and no hidden costs.
About the Performer
Born in Scotland. Formed in Europe. Seasoned across a decade of performances for senior communities on the American East Coast. Paul Tosh is a therapeutic musical performer whose work refuses the easy distinction between entertainment and art.
His signature approach — Song Is The Play — treats every performance as a piece of theatre: looping piano, dramatic song, and the kind of presence that makes a familiar melody feel heard for the first time. Paper Gun is his most personal and fully realised work to date: a show about damage, clarity, and the quiet violence of the truth.
Paul's celebrated concert show — Billy Joel, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Sinatra, Neil Diamond, and originals, performed as theatrical prose with looping piano.
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