Book Writing for Musicals with Stephen Witkin

Stephen Witkin joined us again to talk about his career writing the book for various musicals, and shared three songs resulting from his writing.

We talked about:

• The difference between “On Broadway” and “Off Broadway”
• Prom Queens Unchained available from Samuel French
• different sub-genres in musicals
• the nature of collaboration between book writer, lyricist, and composer
• what’s an “I Want” song?
• what the heck is underscoring?

Download the lyrics for the songs.

It was also our very own Bruce’s birthday! Happy birthday Bruce!

Listen to the show