sir_quirky_k (![[info]](http://www.iziblog.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sir_quirky_k) wrote,@ 2008-01-16 23:08:00 |
Part 1 of a two-part post: Jealousy -> motivation
Lyndsay, who directs my choir, has been working on something the last year.
She's written a musical theatre adaptation of The Mennyms, a childrens' book by Sylvia Waugh. It's being performed by the musical theatre group, probably in May.
Jealousy doesn't even begin to describe my feelings. I've had dreams of doing much the same - to the point of starting a musical in late 2004, only to abandon those plans three months, two-and-a-half songs and one plot later - and now to see someone else pull it off...
...talk about a way to remind me of my inadequacies.
And, more positively, to work on them. In an earlier post, I mused that 'some substantive collaborative project may also be a good idea'. I was thinking along the lines of writing a musical, but wasn't sure.
I am now.
Current plan is for a three-way team; me writing music and lyrics, someone else for the book, someone else for the orchestrations. By complete coincidence, that was the set-up for Wicked (Stephen Schwartz, Winnie Hollman and William David Brohn respectively)...
It's up to me to get the ball rolling, by devising a plot, and quite possibly starting the book myself. My role, and that of the book writer, will probably become increasingly intertwined. Whether the orchestrator will slip into our roles is unclear, but I for one certainly won't be much use in his/her role (except maybe for ideas).
Lyndsay, who directs my choir, has been working on something the last year.
She's written a musical theatre adaptation of The Mennyms, a childrens' book by Sylvia Waugh. It's being performed by the musical theatre group, probably in May.
Jealousy doesn't even begin to describe my feelings. I've had dreams of doing much the same - to the point of starting a musical in late 2004, only to abandon those plans three months, two-and-a-half songs and one plot later - and now to see someone else pull it off...
...talk about a way to remind me of my inadequacies.
And, more positively, to work on them. In an earlier post, I mused that 'some substantive collaborative project may also be a good idea'. I was thinking along the lines of writing a musical, but wasn't sure.
I am now.
Current plan is for a three-way team; me writing music and lyrics, someone else for the book, someone else for the orchestrations. By complete coincidence, that was the set-up for Wicked (Stephen Schwartz, Winnie Hollman and William David Brohn respectively)...
It's up to me to get the ball rolling, by devising a plot, and quite possibly starting the book myself. My role, and that of the book writer, will probably become increasingly intertwined. Whether the orchestrator will slip into our roles is unclear, but I for one certainly won't be much use in his/her role (except maybe for ideas).
