For its practitioners, musical theatre is an art, a passion, and a lifelong love. But it's also a complex landscape involving not merely principles of craft about book, music and lyrics, but also principles of collaboration, script/demo presentation, project/production development, venue, business, and - everybody's area of uncertainty - politics. In The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide , award-winning musical dramatist and teacher David Spencer provides a guide-to-the-game that helps you negotiate all those aspects of the business and more. This professional handbook will walk you through: getting your name and your projects into the hands of producers, instead of the rejection pile; choosing the right producer, agent, or director, instead of surrounding yourself with people uninterested in your work and your career - or interested for the wrong reasons; bringing your vision to life through stage-savvy writing, instead of watching it sputter due to flaws in craft; and living a happy, healthy life in musicals, instead of dying a slow, showbiz death. If you're taking your first steps, Spencer's counsel, anecdotes, and instructions will save you years of blindly stumbling about without results. Likewise, if you've been around the block a few times, The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide can rescue you from the kinds of career-stalling traps, bad habits, and false assumptions that lead to dead ends.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Heinemann USA
ISBN-13
9780325007861
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94739597
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide
Author
David Spencer
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Music
Publication Year
2005
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
David Spencer
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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