How to Write a Great Musical or Film

Elton was not there a lot in the meetings about the story, whereas i was at every single one. The songs were helped enormously by the fact that the lyrics had to come first. I witnessed him writing Circleof life and acunamatata. If you have an indifferent score, but a good story, that will do better than having a terrific score,. like sergeant pepper in its entirety, but no real story, it won't work. But if you got a great story in a great structure, then even an average director will make it work.