5. Most of all: get out of the way. Support the text. Smooth over the rough edges where it’s needed but don’t broadcast the fact you’ve done it. Don’t try to be clever. No one likes cleverness for the sake of being clever.
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4. You’ve found your voice (or maybe you stole it). Great! But that doesn’t mean all your songs should should sound the same. There are thousands of great composers you can steal from!
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3. Edit mercilessly. Cut every single gram of fat. You may think the four-chord progression you lifted from Hamilton is the best thing next to Seasons of Love. Sure, everyone borrows. But six verses of the same thing without variation is a bit much.
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2. Setting all the songs in the same or closely-related keys—especially at the expense of your singers—is a dead giveaway of your personal limitations as a performer. You should never get in the way of your own music.
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1. Write for the actor’s voice, not your instrument. Invest some time to understand what this means. Ask for help if you need it.
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Unsolicited advice to inexperienced composers of musical theater:
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Today I listened to an audition where the vocalist—who claimed to be a tenor—sang Nessun Dorma in E Major. If you know, you know. 😬🎹
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Handsome boy Copper.
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I can’t snuggle enough with you Daddy!
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Scout sitting on a white rug.
Copper, on the couch, leaning his head on a doggie bed.
Copper and Scout sitting next to each other on the rug.
Say hello to Copper and Scout, our new babies from Beagle Freedom Project! #endanimaltesting
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