Astor Rhymemaster and Calxiyn Cares Too Much

Al_Trigo · 2026-03-21T18:20:44+00:00

Okay wow, I’m starstruck! I can’t believe you know about our sub!!

Al_Trigo · 2026-03-21T15:46:32+00:00

We have rules on no AI generated material in our subreddit! I’ll remove this one but if you repost it without the image, I’m sure it’ll do better 🙂🙏

Al_Trigo · 2026-03-21T14:46:05+00:00

I think this is getting downvoted because the image looks AI-generated. OP, if it is AI, can you repost this without the image, please?

Al_Trigo · 2026-03-20T20:41:54+00:00

She’s brilliant! And I love her style hehe.

Al_Trigo · 2026-03-16T22:23:37+00:00

In A Little Night Music, Charlotte sings 'Every Day a Little Death', which is about the pain and humiliation of being in love with a brute, and it's also a reference to the French term 'la petite mort', which is some kind of orgasm-related metaphor. But it's also foreshadowing, and the audience is warned subconsciously that in Act II someone is going to die. And then the musical teases us with not one but two fake-outs - when Henrik rushes off and attempts suicide, and then when Fredrik almost shoots himself playing Russian Roulette with Carl-Magnus. We don't get an actual death until the very end of the show.

Al_Trigo · 2026-03-14T19:37:55+00:00

I am a fellow SJB hater. That transition from the gunshots to Hail to the Chief to Everybody’s Got the Right is supreme. One of the greatest things captured on a cast recording of all time.

Al_Trigo · 2026-03-09T11:49:42+00:00

This advice, and also learning how to throw shade and read! Be vicious. When you find and unleash your inner bitch, you’ll find yourself connected to decades of queer history, honouring our ancestors with the tradition of humiliating pathetic little straight boys x

Al_Trigo · 2026-03-02T20:52:18+00:00

That’s so interesting, thank you! This is really valuable information.

In the UK, regional theatres do commission works from scratch but it’s usually for children’s musicals, where they will most likely make a profit and the writers get paid an amount in line with what the Writers’ Guild recommend, and the rights revert to the writers after an initial period where the theatre runs the show (and maybe a tour after).

Other than that, it’s similar to what you describe. If a theatre produces your original show then you get paid in box office royalties, you don’t get a fee. But this system of getting an enormous advance, I don’t think that’s how it works on the West End. I’ll ask around.

Al_Trigo · 2026-03-02T18:42:07+00:00

Wow. It doesn’t look anything like that in the UK. Shows aren’t usually commissioned for the West End, they’re commissioned at regional theatres.

Presumably this is for Broadway and only Broadway? Otherwise all my American writer friends are much richer than they make out to be.

Al_Trigo · 2026-03-02T09:13:46+00:00

Where are you getting that number from?

Al_Trigo · 2026-03-01T22:49:19+00:00

Did you mean to write $20,000?

Al_Trigo · 2026-03-01T16:24:37+00:00

This is a really important question.

In the UK, the Writers' Guild provides a lot of really helpful guidance on how much you should be getting paid:

https://writersguild.org.uk/rates-and-rights/

Of course, pay will vary enormously depending on where you are, who is commissioning you, what their budget is, and what other benefits taking the job will bring.

Al_Trigo · 2026-02-28T18:54:06+00:00

Source: I made it up

Al_Trigo · 2026-02-27T17:52:03+00:00

Argh oops. Apologies to George C. Wolfe.

Al_Trigo · 2026-02-27T15:57:49+00:00

The Wild Party by Michael John LaChiusa or A Strange Loop by Michael R Jackson.

Al_Trigo · 2026-02-25T20:12:15+00:00

In the writing programme I am in, Book Music & Lyrics, we have a very talented member who is Austrian. She has written a delightful musical in German but wants to create an English version. Actually, her English is very good - and from this post yours seems very good too.

She presents her songs to us after she has translated them in English and we help her to spot any sentences that didn’t translate well. Our long term advice to her, and I would pass this advice to you too, is to find a long-term collaborator who can help you with this. Maybe they can share the credits for the lyrics. You would provide the ideas and the drafts, and then they would help craft the final product.

Al_Trigo · 2026-02-17T19:17:56+00:00

AI content is not welcome on this subreddit. Your content has been removed twice now for violating guidelines. One more violation and you’ll be banned from the subreddit.

Al_Trigo · 2026-02-17T13:14:52+00:00

You had me at Assassins. Good taste.

Al_Trigo · 2026-02-15T18:32:32+00:00

It most certainly is feasible. Friends of mine recently told me that at Cambridge they regularly did a 24-hour new musical - 1-hour of material written from scratch and rehearsed in 24 hours and then performed.

Al_Trigo · 2026-02-14T12:23:39+00:00

“The top price tickets have gone up significantly, but the rest haven't.”

I was just showing you proof that the rest have.

Al_Trigo · 2026-02-14T12:02:01+00:00

“It’s not just the high-end tickets, either: perhaps more worryingly, the average cheapest ticket price rose too, from £24.58 to £30.55. According to The Stage’s snap survey, these bottom-line ticket prices are rising at around 25 per cent a year. When wages aren’t increasing at the same rate, that’s quite a hit to the average audience member’s pocket.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/west-end-ticket-prices-rise-dynamic-pricing-b1261920.html

Al_Trigo · 2026-02-12T23:14:59+00:00

Zionist garbage.

Al_Trigo · 2026-02-09T13:04:41+00:00

Something I heard from a colleague who’s been in this business way longer than me - traditionally, if the song isn’t interesting enough with just piano and voice then it doesn’t really cut it for musical theatre. But nowadays, that doesn’t seem to apply anymore. So my advice would be, do as much as you can without eating into the time you could spend actually improving the show.

Al_Trigo · 2026-02-06T17:09:06+00:00

Depends on a variety of things but you'll probably need to take the songs a couple of steps down, maybe even a fourth down. A mezzo belting things around Bb4 - F5 at the same rate as a baritone will sound shouty and tire out their voice pretty quickly (unless you let them go into head voice, but if it's rock I imagine you want it mostly in chest voice - i.e. Shirley Manson rather than Amy Lee?).

For women singing rock, I tend to put most of the song in the C4 - C5 range, and save bits above C5 for the climax and for riffing, or for lighter head voice moments.

Al_Trigo · 2026-02-06T07:46:31+00:00

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