Bout to turn my super loose concept mafia story into a musical cuz i cannot novel it and electro swing pops off and mixing it with high end sounding music and punk sounds so fun.
I have written and staged one myself ‘Twin Flames the musical’ and thankfully it had a successful 8 show run. Amazing experience. Hoping to take it further
Definitely going to bring it further. I’m based in Cork Ireland and will probably stage it in the Everyman Palace theatre Cork next. I’ve rewritten it again 4 times since Christmas because I saw what worked brilliantly when it was staged and saw what more needed work. For starters, It was 3 hours long and I needed to get it down to 2.5 hours ( probably the perfect length for a musical) Mine is quite similar to High Society in terms of characters and themes and culminates in a big wedding scene, but I only discovered this afterwards so I didn’t plagiarise anything. My musical director is Paul Linehan from a well known Cork band called ‘The Frank and Walters’ They had numerous UK hits in the 90s. Paul has done an incredible job on the music- we both agreed from the start that every track had to be instantly catchy and memorable, and world class.
I’m in the planning faze of writing a musical which interweaves stories from a pretty famous horror author (not saying who since I don’t want my idea to be stolen) in a way similar to into the woods. What is your advice on how to interweave stories in a satisfying way? (not sure if it would be considered original or an adaptation since it’s a bit of both)
There are ohhh so many ways this could be done! It would depend on what kind of journey you want to create through the piece, who the central characters are, what types of feelings you want to elicit from the audience throughout, etc. Personally, for something this intricate, I would start with a solid outlining process to create a story flow that I'm excited about, and then allow for experimenting while I actually write a draft. Does that all make sense?
No idea if you would know this as a writer, but I'm just writing a single song in the style of a musical, which I was going to record with a video. I'm probably going to actually sing in the video footage, but put a more produced track of me with better recording quality over it. Do you think I should record the video first to try and reference it while making the audio so I'm not constrained when filming, or the audio first to get it sounding better?
Bout to turn my super loose concept mafia story into a musical cuz i cannot novel it and electro swing pops off and mixing it with high end sounding music and punk sounds so fun.
Oh that's a fascinating concept and combination!
I have written and staged one myself ‘Twin Flames the musical’ and thankfully it had a successful 8 show run. Amazing experience. Hoping to take it further
That's fantastic - congratulations! What's the next step for the show?
Definitely going to bring it further. I’m based in Cork Ireland and will probably stage it in the Everyman Palace theatre Cork next. I’ve rewritten it again 4 times since Christmas because I saw what worked brilliantly when it was staged and saw what more needed work. For starters, It was 3 hours long and I needed to get it down to 2.5 hours ( probably the perfect length for a musical) Mine is quite similar to High Society in terms of characters and themes and culminates in a big wedding scene, but I only discovered this afterwards so I didn’t plagiarise anything. My musical director is Paul Linehan from a well known Cork band called ‘The Frank and Walters’ They had numerous UK hits in the 90s. Paul has done an incredible job on the music- we both agreed from the start that every track had to be instantly catchy and memorable, and world class.
@@kevinfitzsimons41 Sounds like you've got a great plan ahead of you and are well on track! I wish you the best with the next iteration!
@@musicaltheatrewriterguyThanks a million. Really appreciate your words of encouragement
I’m in the planning faze of writing a musical which interweaves stories from a pretty famous horror author (not saying who since I don’t want my idea to be stolen) in a way similar to into the woods. What is your advice on how to interweave stories in a satisfying way? (not sure if it would be considered original or an adaptation since it’s a bit of both)
There are ohhh so many ways this could be done! It would depend on what kind of journey you want to create through the piece, who the central characters are, what types of feelings you want to elicit from the audience throughout, etc. Personally, for something this intricate, I would start with a solid outlining process to create a story flow that I'm excited about, and then allow for experimenting while I actually write a draft. Does that all make sense?
That makes perfect sense! Thank you so much for the advice!
@@beckhamreed141 Happy to help!
No idea if you would know this as a writer, but I'm just writing a single song in the style of a musical, which I was going to record with a video. I'm probably going to actually sing in the video footage, but put a more produced track of me with better recording quality over it. Do you think I should record the video first to try and reference it while making the audio so I'm not constrained when filming, or the audio first to get it sounding better?
I'd say to take the route that sounds more enjoyable to you, whichever lights you up more! There no wrong way to do it!