I'm in the process
of looking for composers for a few musicals I have in development.
You know what I've
discovered?
When the root word
of Musical is MUSIC . . . it's a big freekin' decision!
Music is why
people see musicals. Simple as that. It's what makes them unique.
And how many
celebrity lyricists do you know? How many celebrity book writers do you
know?
Even when shows
fail, good music can still live on your iPod long after the investors have
claimed the losses on their tax returns (Parade, anyone?). Thousands of people know the words
to "Meadowlark" from The Baker's Wife, but I don't ever hear people humming the dialogue
from Act II, scene iii. (And how many of you even knew it was from The
Baker's Wife?)
Yep, it's a big
one. So I'm going to take my time and make sure I get my roots just
right. Because these roots show all the time. Even when your dye
job costs $10 million dollars.
You know what
else?
There are beautiful little known scores by George Antheil for TRANSATLANTIC, pieces by Louis Morreau Gottschalk from New Orleans, and John Adams even made me tolerate NIXON IN CHINA, and Stphen Foster can still wow a crowd.
Verdi composed great music to awful texts, and Puccini composed thrilling music to melodramatic weepers that still makes fortunes in different RENT(ed) guises no less.
Wagner transcends his trashy texts over and over again
Posted by: dp quinn | March 29, 2010 at 08:57 PM