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The Book Lab is designed as an introduction to writing the book of a musical while also outlining the collaborative steps involved in creating a new musical with the whole team. The 'book' of a musical is not just the spoken words, but encompasses the entire 'story' of the musical. The Bookwriter is officially responsible for the writing of the 'book', but the entire writing team needs to collaborate on the 'story'. A series of six lectures with accompanying handouts, tests, exercises, and assignments, this course qualifies as the Book Lab element of the Academy for New Musical Theatre's Core Curriculum. With Evaluator Elise Dewsberry.
$595
In this practical lab, you will be led through six steps toward developing an outline for a new musical from concept through to a working outline, with detailed constructive feedback along the way from your evaluator. By the end of this ten-unit course, you should have a well-developed and detailed outline that will solidly prepare you for the collaborative task of writing your new musical.Don't start writing until your outline is rock solid! With Evaluator Elise Dewsberry.
Whether you're a veteran looking to sharpen some aspects of your craft, or whether you're new to writing lyrics for musical theatre, this course can help you focus your lyrics and give them impact and drama. Work at your own pace -- take one month or six months; whatever works for your schedule and workload. Learn and write at home, or wherever you have a workstation. Twenty-one videos on topics which include: Prosody, Structure, Rhyme, Alliteration, The Verse, The Refrain, The Chorus, Spotting Songs, Progressions, the purpose of a song in musical theatre, Which Structure to Use?, Writing with Parameters, and Alternative Refrain Structure. Also: Interactive Tests, Exercises, Assignments, One-on-One feedback with evaluator.
$795
The Advanced Lyric Lab is for graduates of the Lyric Lab, and covers additional topics such as Character Through Diction, Linear Prosody, Conversational Prosody, Additional Progressions, Metaphor, Simile, List Songs and Twist Songs.
A comprehensive study of the Verse, the Chorus and the Refrain, and how they're used in musical theatre. Trace each structure historically, examine them in contemporary literature, and write your own examples of each. Currently offered as part of the Lyric Lab, this unit is also offered as a stand-alone.
The foundation of lyric writing: Prosody, or matching the stresses of music with stresses in the lyric. Topics include Bad Prosody, Repairing Prosody, Linear Prosody, Euphony, and Poetic Meter versus Spoken and Musical Meter. Currently offered as part of the Lyric Lab, this unit is also offered as a stand-alone.
$295
A self-contained unit focuses on metaphor and simile in musical theatre lyrics, and continues with advanced metaphorical concepts such as synecdoche, allegory, metonymy, periphrasis, apostrophe, mixed metaphor and parable. Currently offered as part of the Advanced Lyric Lab, this unit is also available as a stand-alone.
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