Many people are fans of musical theater; my co-producer wife and I have been sitting in audiences for decades. But how much time have you spent thinking through how musical theater actually works, from the inside. and from my perspective, where do I start? There always seems to be a trade-off between innovation (or rather, making mistakes that turn out … Read More

Yes, these are actually skills that people spend years studying to get good at. In my case, beyond the basics of composition and music theory, I didn’t have a music degree or a lifetime of music arranging experience. But I did have time. After I decided to write the musical, I spent this time ordering books from Amazon, combing through … Read More

I had read the Esther story in the bible a number of times, and was always fascinated by a few of what I thought were unique attributes: I did understand that if I wanted to bring the story into the present day, I needed to do a fair amount of research on the original story – something that I had … Read More