26 Musical Theatre Books, Librettos, and Biographies You can Borrow for FREE (save $468)
As a musical theatre writer, your craft is both an art and a science. You need to have a strong...
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As a musical theatre writer, your craft is both an art and a science. You need to have a strong...
Read MoreHere are 10 contemporary, modern-day musicals set in US locations outside of New York.
Read MoreCarol de Giere and Stephen Schwartz discuss the importance (and challenge) of constructing successful opening numbers — and offer a few tips!
Read MoreToday’s musicals journey through time with concentrated stories and employ devices like montages, backstory, and ticking clocks to keep audiences engaged.
Read MoreCarol de Giere and Stephen Schwartz explore how musicals convey time through backstory, memories, and compressed action.
Read MoreAnais Mitchell’s “Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown” gives insights into lyric-writing, book-writing and story-crafting.
Read MoreCatch 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.”
Read MoreThe most famous songs from Funny Girl, “People” and “Don’t Rain On My Parade,” are unusual in that they’re stunningly successful, and yet they contain elements that are “wrong” in a strict definition of the term.
Read MoreIt would be a mistake to dismiss Little Shop of Horrors as camp, because it is written with more attention to the intricacies of construction than most serious musicals. In a sense, it’s the last purely funny musical comedy to have stood the test of time; its endurance due, in part, to its solid architecture.
Read MoreMost writers know they have to tackle certain structural must-haves, but there is one in particular that tends to be the most elusive: The Opening Number.
Read MoreA Chorus Line follows many protagonists and so must quickly introduce them in ways that delineate them and make us root for them individually.
Read MoreUsing the Four Seasons catalogue, Jersey Boys tells a good, solid story with style, drama, and emotion. It uses the music as it should be used – as diegetic songs being performed by The Four Seasons. For those who fondly remember those songs, the musical probably is a nostalgic reminder of days gone by; but, even if you’re not a Four Seasons fan, Jersey Boys still is a genuine crowd pleaser and an enormously entertaining evening of well done musical theater.
Read MoreOne of the undisputed masterpieces of musical theatre, West Side Story began as an idea called East Side Story. Director/choreographer Jerome Robbins and composer Leonard Bernstein wanted to set Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in modern dress, dealing with contemporary prejudices.
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