Brand New World
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06.03.2025 18:14
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Some of my favorite songs by Stephen Schwartz are “I’m Not That Girl” and “What Is This Feeling” from Wicked (I love how the latter parallels the Golden Age conditional love song), “Meadowlark” and “Merci, Madame” from The Baker’s Wife, and “Brand New World” from Rags.
He also uses some really interesting lyrical structures in his songs. Look at “Dancing Through Life”:
“Dancing through life
Skimming the **surface**
Gliding where **turf is** *smooth*
Life’s more painless
For the brainless
Why think too hard
When it’s so *sooth*ing”
I’ve been really enjoying Schwartz as a lyricist this past year. I think he’s absolutely brilliant at coming up with unexpected rhymes, eg creating rhymes in places other than the ends of words:
• bear it / popularity (“Popular,” Wicked)
• spot ex-Citing/exotic /anecdotic (“Magic to Do,” Pippin)
He also wrote the lyrics for stage and film musicals like The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Pocahontas (both with Alan Menken as composer) and Rags (with Charles Strouse as composer).
Happy birthday to composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz! What’s your favorite song of his?
He has written the music and lyrics for many musicals — most famously Wicked, Godspell, and Pippin, but also Children of Eden, The Prince of Egypt, The Baker’s Wife, and more.
#musicals #theater #Broadway
A university theater of all places should be teaching students to consider WHY a playwright/lyricist chose their words. This was a very intentional word choice.
The fear, the lack of media literacy…
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“Northwestern Cancels ASSASSINS Mid-Run Amid Backlash Over Racial Slur”
So… are we just not supposed to tell stories with racist villains? Or are we supposed to make them more sympathetic? The use of that word is MEANT to be gross. It’s MEANT to be jarring.
www.broadwayworld.com/article/Nort...
Took a 10-hour (each way) roadtrip this week, which meant listening to 18 musicals (plus seeing one more live one!)
Favorites: Hamilton (LMM’s lyrical mastery…), Daddy Long Legs (truly a love letter to the written word).
What are your favorite musicals for road trips?
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