The ABCs of Writing Musicals: A Civilian’s Guide (The ABCs of Broadway Musicals)

Do you want to write a musical? Do you have a friend who writes musicals? Do you just love musicals? THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU. ALL YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED. This book is entertaining, informative, and really easy to read and understand. It’s short enough to read in one sitting or you can flip open to any page and find something worth thinking about. This fourth volume in writer-director Scott Miller’s ABCs series is a fun, short, easy-to-digest, totally non-intimidating way to develop a basic understanding of the very difficult craft of writing a stage musical, including a brief history of the art form, structure and form, story types, song types, good books and documentaries, plus a wide array of other related topics, like plot, the use of dance, traps and pitfalls, writing tips from real Broadway Pros, adaptation, rhyme, tips from Aristotle and Stephen Sondheim, and so much more! Even trained, experienced musical theatre writers may learn something from this little book!