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 enlarge | Author: David Spencer
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 295147
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0325007861
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.1413
EAN: 9780325007861
ASIN: 0325007861
Publication Date: July 1, 2005
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The BEST career guide for the Broadway-Bound writer!!! July 25, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just finished this book and all I can say is "WOW". The author knows his stuff and answers so many questions you won't find in your average Music Theater Book. If you want to write musicals, if you're interested in how musicals are written and how careers are sustained, or if you want to flourish in ANY artistic career this is the book for you. As a musical theater writer, I found the articles on Agents and Submissions very helpful, particularly the sections on recording your work and formatting your scripts. There's a lot to digest here and I feel like I'll be coming back to it again and again. I think the secret of the book is that it's written FROM EXPERIENCE. It's got a lot of excellent pointers on trusting your instincts, working with directors, doing your work better and just plain sticking in there. A MUST READ for music theater composers, lyricists, and librettists! A+
Great beginner's guide July 24, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an excellent beginner's guide to the whole scene of writing musicals. Being as short as it is, it can only provide general advice, but it covers a wide range of topics. I found the most useful to be how to handle the interpersonal side of the business --- i.e, getting along with collaborators, choosing directors (VERY valuable sections), working with producers, etc. Also very useful: hints on how and why songs work and how to market your stuff. The sections on writing book and lyrics offer good counselling for some of the emotional hazards along the way, but a good text on playwriting and lyric writing would very much supplement these chapters.
But I would say this should be required reading for anybody interested in writing musicals, reading musicals (you literary managers and dramaturgs take note!), and seeing musicals. Thanks, David, for putting this out.
A MUST-HAVE! So good you'll read it in one fell swoop! July 22, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Anyone wishing to pursue a career in musical theatre should consider this book a staple. It is an indispensible guide that explains basic concepts clearly and thoroughly. It explores all aspects of the business, from the dos and don'ts of collaboration to essential libretto elements to formatting scripts for submissions. However, it also gets into concepts that are lesser known but no less critical to the writing life. For example, especially helpful is the section on writer's block, which asserts that its existence is a result of one of a list of inherent problems with the scene or song. I'm telling you -- you will devour this book; Spencer knows his stuff, and now your work and mine can benefit from his putting it in print.
For anyone serious about writing for the Musical Theatre July 20, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I ordered this book based two things: I knew the writer to be smart and articulate, and second, I'm entering into my first NYC project and was feeling a little insecure. From the first chapter about collaborating, I knew my money -and my time would be well-spent. This stuff is good. It's smart and to the point and quite entertaining (like a good musical). This is the no-nonsense manual for making Musical Theatre.
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