Writing a musical

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 5:42pm

All right so here it is-- a friend and I are trying to write a musical. We're good at writing music and stories, but it's lines that escape us.

Any tips?

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 5:46pm

Find a lyricist.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 10:05pm

hey i'm writing a musical myself...we can talk about it!!
ric

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 11:27pm

I just recently finished writing a musical. If you need any help id be glad to. If you care to read my finished script (it still has like spelling errors and stuff though) email me at [e-mail]

And id love to help you if u need it.

[bjivie2]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 11:30pm

What I've been told by many people is to just write. Write, write, write. You can always go back and change or throw stuff away.

One thing that might help is to figure out what you want to happen in a scene and then improvise the scene with your friend. Lots of good stuff can come from spontanaity.

Best of luck!

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 12:15am

i can't wait for my musical to go through!!

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 12:27am

I concur, i think u should just write and see what happens. I did and so far ive gotten nothing but praise from those who have read it.

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 1:32am

I'm trying to get away from cliches, but keep getting sucked back in the black hole.

[Phantom2]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 1:35am

Don't forget to add in a few hot chorus boy parts. Very important to a successful musical.

Updated On: 4/9/05 at 01:35 AM

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 1:46am

Way ahead of you on that one.

Who would have thought otherwise?

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 2:06am

Speaking of chorus might i ask u all something. I wrote a musical and within it there is not really a chrous/ensemble. Like there is for like extras with only a couple lines but as far as the singing and dancing goes there is not one. What do u think of the idea of no ensemble?

edit - and also include a reason y please.

Updated On: 4/9/05 at 02:06 AM

[Phantom2]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 2:08am

Bad idea. The ensemble is the gravy on the pasta. Who wants to eat plain spaghetti? Wow, I'm really in the Italian mood tonight! HAHA

Updated On: 4/9/05 at 02:08 AM

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 2:22am

I've written nine musicals: Nosferatu, Erik the Phantom, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Don Claude Devious, Entertaining for Sputum, Get Inside the Screaming, Greek Mythology, Magnus Miriam and The Greaser. Need any help, drop me a line ([e-mail]). And interested producers...
www.freewebs.com/rockfenris2005. Mwuah!

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 5:39am

If you need help have rockfenris2005 help you. I just finished readin 2 of his scripts and one was so good I want to be the one to put it on broadway but I am a broke 16 year old with no knowlege of hwo to produce. This guy knows what hes doing.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 9:32am

Thank you. And I am proud to be working with you on whst you are doing. Passion of the Stage is (personally) better than anything Ive heard / seen from Broasway / theatre in years.
You have a real talent of your own. Never give up. That goes to everyone. Don't let the critics ever get to you

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 9:35am

And there are plenty of hot chorus boys in Don Claude, heehehe

[ikmbway]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 10:40am

My friend and I are also writing a musical but the thing is she doesn't want anything bad to happen which would make it so much better. We can write the lines but we cant write music at all. We want to have lyk a more hip hop/r&b type music but we cant do it. If you need a writer for lines i agree with johnpopa and find a lyricist.

[camthom]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 11:34am

Find a bookwriter who's family can pay for all the readings and workshops. Then tell all your friends that Carol Burnett is starring in your show and your song is being considered for the Olympics TV broadcast simply from you sending in a CD to NBC. Then when you're all done with that, host a concert series promoting yourself as a legendary songwriter. I hear it works for some people.

Seriously though, ask around at the BMI workshop for lyricists/librettists. They are people who are trained to do what they are doing, as opposed to someone who just has a love for it and feels they deserve the right to be famous for that love.

[Phantom2]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 12:14pm

Glad we are all in agreement regarding the hot chorus boys.

Updated On: 4/9/05 at 12:14 PM

[badkarma719]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 5:54pm

hot Chorus boys are always needed

then if the show does suck the audience has eye candy

hmmm, maybe thats why I thought Little Women sucked so badly no one to look at

[Thenardier]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 5:58pm

Jekyll and Hyde?

Phantom?

Nosferatu...?

[JudasIscariot]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 5:59pm

Hey, I eat plain pasta.

Anyway, I am also interested in writing a musical, I just have a problem comming up with an idea for a musical. I'm actually thinking of a rock/operaish thing, something with plenty of energy. I would really like to do a cross between Jonathan Larson and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

[stylinbohemian]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 9:12pm

hey im currently writting a musical with my friends co writing and composing if u need n e help pm or email me:
[e-mail]

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 1:40am

camthom, I like to think I'm a reasonable guy who can (pretty much) take anything. You have no idea the s-hit that any of us has probably been through. I, nothing personal against you, was very offended with what you had to say there. So offended that it very near destroyed my day - and a lot of people's confidence. How dare you say, from where I'm standing, that we don't have a right to succeed because it's something we love. You are a fool, seriously, for saying that - and you will only be proven wrong. Did Andrew Lloyd Webber or Stephen Sondheim have any of this training? Matter of fact, did anyone who has ever succeeded on Broadway have this training? No, just Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, and they're not even household names - and none of their musicals have been ground-breaking and lasting forever. Most of the people from those workshops arenb't even succeswsful or known. Which then concludes with the fact they are just like us, and hopefully loiving what they are doing.

Just because someone is not a member of an institution or any serious crap doesn't give you the right to be a snob and say that they don't deserve success - and the way you expressed and articulated yourself was one of the most poisonous slanders and attacks I have ever read on the internet. These people haver talent, and a lot of people do, more talent than I have actually (seriously) seen from anyone in ythose petty workshops. You are not worth bothering about. You have no idea what you're talking about, and you have offended a lit of people and I am not going to sit here and allow it to be shoved down my throat when I love what I'm doing, when I am proud of it, when people have said themselves it is capable of a major revolution, and no f-ucking university or institution forced it down my throat. Yout ake your petty little accusations and go to the land where everyone is rich and snobnosed and judgemental. You belong there, in a beautiuful paddeds cell with rich jewellery and camel rears. We are better than you, after what you've said, and I can't believe - still can't believe - you said all thst rubbish which wuull never be true as long as everypne here, and bveyond, is alive. Everyone. Keep wrkng. You wiill get somewhere if you're passionate and convinced enough you will make it - and if other people agree. YOu don;t need these snobs in your life who are born to kick you down. They can rot in their petty little cells

Updated On: 4/11/05 at 01:40 AM

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 1:52am

Updated On: 4/11/05 at 01:52 AM