Broadway Swings: Covering the Ensemble in Musical Theatre
Musicians’ careers are multidimensional. Working musicians typically “wear different hats” over the course of their workweek and over the course of their working lives. In talking with most active professional musicians, you will find they have multiple ongoing projects that involve performing, composing, recording, teaching, or other arts-related
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The pair started building what would ultimately amount to a 15-song album that includes an amorous duet between the show’s leading couple, a comedic solo for the show’s nonconformist tomboy and an opening number that they wrote with a lavishly dressed Broadway ensemble flitting around the stage in their heads.
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Abigail, what was it about “Bridgerton” that made you want to turn it into a musical?BARLOW The opening scene is so theatrical. I could just see each part of the stage lighting up in my brain. And then I kept writing down lines of dialogue that sounded like song titles. The phrase “ocean away” was the first one that made me run to my piano.