Musical Theater Song Craft Master Guide

The formula for creating a great musical is tried and true and should not be discarded in some ostentatious attempt to be different or overtly "experimental", an all too familiar angle many composers try. Strategies and techniques endure in storytelling and stagecraft for good reason...they work. Nevertheless, innovations in the way a musical is produced are absolutely possible. But it is in the way in which a composer shapes and hand crafts each traditional stage and compositional element ...