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