Over the past year, I have been consuming a lot of podcasts from the American Theatre Wing because they have an entire range of free and highly valuable interviews with some of the greatest practitioners ever on Broadway. It’s an incredible learning experience just hearing these masters of Broadway dispense their pearls of wisdom. I [...]
Archive for the ‘Lyrics’ Category
Sondheim On Lyrics
Monday, 22 August, 2011
A Tale Of Two NDP Songs
Wednesday, 6 July, 2011
The Lady Gaga Massacre Let’s get the tough one out of the way first. This is a new NDP song called the “Fun Pack Song”, set to the tune of “Bad Romance”, and it has been making its rounds lately. It’s at 47k + views already. All you need to know is that it currently has [...]
Alan Jay Lerner’s “The Street Where I Live”
Tuesday, 7 June, 2011
I was at the library recently and stumbled on this book called “The Street Where I Live”, which is a book written by Alan Jay Lerner chronicling his Broadway exploits, with specific regard to his experiences working on the shows “My Fair Lady”, “Camelot” and “Gigi”. And I then obviously borrowed it. Alan Jay Lerner [...]
If This Town Is Just An Apple, Then Let Me Take A Bite…
Tuesday, 14 July, 2009
I mentioned a few posts ago that “Human Nature” by Michael Jackson is a strangely haunting song. And it’s starting to grow a lot on me the last few days. I’m fascinated by it. I need to get my hands on the CD. By the way, just as an aside…I think this song has got [...]
NDP Song (Plus Songwriting Process)
Monday, 7 July, 2008
I am currently working on a new National Day song to be presented at this month’s Songcraft session. Have been working on it for exactly one week now, but it’s still incomplete. It’s posing quite a few problems, but I kinda like what I have at the moment so I’ll continue working on it. It’s [...]
