Tuesday, November 14, 2017
How to make a musical: From page to concept album
WhatsOnStage.com: Good musicals don't just appear, fully-formed, out of the ether. They have to be worked on, crafted, redrafted and thoroughly tested before they can be unleashed on an unsuspecting – and all too often unforgiving – public. This occasional blog aims to lift up the rock of that process and shine a little light on what crawls around underneath.
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So many people, even people I know, say 'I want to write a play! I want to write a musical!', but when faced with the task shrink away from the challenge. this article did a good job at highlighting the reason behind that. Just wanting to write a musical isn't enough. You have to desire it, passionately strive forwards when the going gets thought. You need to have a goal in mind, something to strive for. Even if that goal is to be famous or make a killer set, you need that goal in mind or else you'll turn and skulk away the first wall you hit. It's similar to writing a novel, too, in the sense that once it's done being written you need the passion and drive to sell it at every turn to people who want to know why you deserve it. You have to own the project full heartedly, advocate for it, and in the end that passion will show through as clearly as having no drive does, and will give your show a shine that others may not have.
The creation of musicals are so much more than a play with music or music weaved together through text, its a single moving orchestration that requires much more fluidity than any other genre. I've always been curious as to what comes first, music or text? Are they written together? If so, how does that collaboration work? In all honesty, I've always loved musicals but never put too much thought into the concise of its creation. I love spectacle I love creating a spectacle, but now I'm incredibly curious as to how one writes a spectacle, what they keep in mind when writing, and what comes up later int he process. Lately, with all the musicals that are just famous songs with a plot, or musicals based on cult films or stories, I feel like the creativity is just being marketed to something with an already existent fanbase. Its important and good to know that there still people putting in the work to workshop and create original stories and music.
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