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How Opening Numbers Reveal a World or Launch the Story

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Carol de Giere and Stephen Schwartz discuss the importance (and challenge) of constructing successful opening numbers — and offer a few tips!

How Musicals Make the Most of Time: Montage, Backstory, Memories, and Ticking Clocks

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Today’s musicals journey through time with concentrated stories and employ devices like montages, backstory, and ticking clocks to keep audiences engaged.

How Musicals Make the Most of Time – A Conversation with Stephen Schwartz

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Carol de Giere and Stephen Schwartz explore how musicals convey time through backstory, memories, and compressed action.

Book Review: Working on a Song: The Lyrics of HADESTOWN

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Anais Mitchell’s “Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown” gives insights into lyric-writing, book-writing and story-crafting.

Summer Reading Books for Musical Writers in 2020

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Catch up on relevant musical writing books this summer, including ideas for public domain material, how-to books, and books on “the making of a musical.”