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Book Review: Writing the Broadway Musical by Aaron Frankel

Jul 23, 2018 | 0 |

‘Making Musicals’ is book writer and lyricist Tom Jones’ intimate introduction to the business that he and composer Harvey Schmidt have been associated with since their first collaboration at the University of Texas in the late 1940’s. ‘Making Musicals’ is a very readable work. Genial wisdom tumbles out of the author like apples from an overturned basket. Jones relates the struggles of other well-known writers with a been-there-done-that sense of kinship. “The best a ‘teacher’ can do,” he states modestly, “Is to point out the problems and possibilities.” And so he does.

In the Books: Writing Music & Lyrics

Jul 21, 2018 | 0 |

Finding a Musical Style: How Do You Find the Right Sound for Your Score?

Book Review: Writing Musical Theatre by Allen Cohen and Steven Rosenhaus

Jun 30, 2018 | 0 |

About midway through their appealing new book ‘Writing Musical Theater,’ authors Allen Cohen and Steven L. Rosenhaus set down three principles for writing an effective theater lyric. It must be concise, comprehensible and specific. That struck me as the perfect way to describe this practical guide for beginning and journeymen writers.

1776

Jun 26, 2018 | 0 |

In some ways, 1776 feels very much like a straight play. Pages and pages go by in between songs, and we’re often listening to well-articulated political arguments. But 1776 is very much a musical. If at times it sounds like light opera, it’s because the composer is trying to convey, musically, a sense of the period in which it’s set.

Pace New Musicals

Jun 25, 2018 | 0 |

Pace New Musicals mission is to nurture the development of new musicals by student, emerging, and established musical theater writers in a safe and encouraging academic environment.