Theater In which I get very critical about MUSICALS YOU MAY KNOW AND LOVE MELISANDE is going very well, thank you. Scoring the Queen's song; telling Larry that each note needs both a musical and a dramaturgical reason to exist. The example and/or standard is of course INTO THE WOODS, and if you don't believe me you can watch
Theater Why Tim Minchin's MATILDA makes Miss Trunchbull the hero I am going to write more about the process through which I am adapting E. Nesbit's short story "Melisande: or, Long and Short Division" into a musical, but before we get to that – well, first, I have to continue adapting it, and second, I want to