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Thursday, March 24, 2016

How Not to Hate Your Survival Job by Kate Thomas

Survival jobs. I mean until we reach that Lin-Manuel-Stephen-Schwartz hybrid of greatness, most of us MT writers are largely dependent on a day job or side hustle to sustain ourselves. It’…

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 10:00AM
Friday, February 19, 2016

How To Survive a Fight With Your Collaborator by Kate Thomas

Okay, so. This may seem like an awkward thing to say, but you don’t have to like your writing partner all the dang time. In fact, I think it’s impossible to. You’re making …

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 06:55AM
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

5 Tips to Tackle Writer’s Block by Kate Thomas

Writer’s block. It’s the worst. It’s haunting, it’s emotionally complicated, and it fills us with crippling self-doubt. It’s a tricky beast that comes for us all at…

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 07:10AM
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

8 Musical Theatre Songs to Inspire Song and Structure by Kate Thomas

Musical Theatre writing is tricky business, and as writers, we are always searching for inspiration in terms of song and structure. Structure. I had to say that one again, because quite fran…

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 06:48AM
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

7 “Top 40” Songs for Your Audition Book by Kate Thomas

Having witnessed my fair share of musical theatre auditions, I've come to realize that it's a lot harder to choose a contemporary pop song to present than we may assume. I see a lot …

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 07:00AM
Thursday, December 17, 2015

“No One Is Alone”: The 5 Stages of Rejection as a Musical Theatre Writer by Kate Thomas

So we're in a business filled with rejection. Shocker, right? I know, I told you something you absolutely didn’t know. You're welcome. Look, nobody likes rejection. Especially …

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 06:58AM
Monday, November 30, 2015

Consider Rewriting. No, Seriously. by Kate Thomas

The process of rewriting in musical theatre (or anything for that matter) is a tedious one. You finish a draft of this monster you’ve been crafting for however long, you’re super…

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 09:10AM
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