Best of - Stephen Sondheim: Maestro of Broadway
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The Art of Lyrics
Santim finds lyrics a much greater challenge write than music. To do it well, you've got to explore and inhabit the character who will be singing it. And then writing the song is acting it, so can start ad libbing it. It's exactly like imprository acting. If you're thoroughly in the character, you can do it. You may not have the poetry he adds, but everything you say will be in the character of blanche. That's what i do. I take off from what the bookwriter has written,. Sometimes, using a line of his as a spring board, and ad leby and improvise as that character. By the time i get
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