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 10:00AMOkay, 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 06:55AMWriter’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 07:10AMMusical 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 06:48AMHaving 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 07:00AMSo 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 06:58AMThe 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…
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