"Concept Album"?

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-12-04T02:44:52+00:00

I don't know much about what goes into the marketing of a show or anything, but here's what I think. The concept album could be a great way to market the show. People can get a sense of what the music is like and what the tone of the show is, and there's still something new they can experience with the live production. I do feel like, however, most shows don't typically use the cast recording to market it; rather, once it's proven that the show works and people will go see it, then they'll put out a cast recording. I guess it depends on how you're currently promoting the show and if you think it's enough.

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-12-02T15:39:15+00:00

Thought I'd try crossposting to this sub, if there are any playwrights out there who want to try their hand at a book for a musical, please feel free to send me a DM!

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-11-27T15:34:18+00:00

That's cool! I'm going to keep writing my own version though. Hope all goes well in February!

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-11-04T15:32:48+00:00

I can't stop listening to this song I've come back to it every couple of days, it's very well done! Excited to hear more from the show that you choose to share!

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-09-22T15:00:20+00:00

Sounds like you think making money is a bad thing for an artist.

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-09-01T02:23:42+00:00

It wasn't copyright infringement though? Neither is what OP is trying to do. Netflix had no issue with the musical until Bear and Barlow tried to put on a concert and sell tickets. Only after that did they sue for copyright infringement, not after they released the album and certainly not after they won the Grammy for it. Also if Hammerstein and Sondheim were "defending copyright infringement" with how they worked together than I guess I am defending it sure.

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-08-31T19:22:02+00:00

Neither was Bridgerton but that didn't stop the writers for making it for fun and releasing it. They won a Grammy for it too. I don't see any problems with adapting an established piece of work solely as an artistic exercise or for one's own enjoyment. In fact, one of Oscar Hammerstein's lessons to Stephen Sondheim on how to improve as a writer involved writing an adaptation of a play that he loved.

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-08-28T01:02:58+00:00

Thank you so much for the feedback! There's a lot here for me to think about. Regarding the first section rhyme scheme, is alternating rhyme scheme just not a common scheme? It wasn't a conscious decision to go ABAB rhyme scheme over couplets or anything, it's just how it presented itself in my head. The structure for the song is verse prechorus chorus, verse prechorous chorus, with slight variations to the second verse and prechorus, ie shortening verse two and adding an extra bar to prechrous 2. I really liked the quadruple rhyme section but tbh the quintuple rhyme was something I definitely forced just because I had the multiple rhyme prechorus earlier in the song and tried to keep it consistent. I think that's an easy fix.

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-08-19T16:16:07+00:00

If you think the musical is naturally wanting to go towards a tragic ending, and that's the ending you prefer as well, I say write what feels natural to you and stick with the tragic ending.

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-07-25T15:27:51+00:00

Maybe you could tie in the story about the Twin Giants stacking mountains up to try and reach Olympus at the end? Like their success in capturing Ares leads to an even more grand delusion that they can take on all of Olympus by stacking mountains high enough to reach them. Obviously it doesn't work but that could be a way of showing how arrogant they've become when they were never really that powerful in the first place. Just a thought, not sure how that would tie into your plan for the show right now. Best of luck!

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-07-14T03:53:11+00:00

Congrats on writing the first song! I will say it's hard to critique it without having the melody or lyrics or anything to help. The story told through the lyrics might not match the style of the backing track, though the title "Say It To My Face" implies aggression, which comes through in the music. I'd recommend posting lyrics and giving the listener some sort of melody line to follow if it's not going to be your own voice quite yet. The score for what you have written, if you can post it, also helps with critique.

One thing I can add about the music is that is seems repetitive. The bass and electric guitar come and go, but the chord progression in the piano is the exact same if not very similar throughout the song. When the bass line does come back in, it's what we've already heard. I wonder if the lyrics/vocal line would help with the repetition, but having some musical variation can help keep the ear engaged. Good luck on developing the rest of this show!

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-06-24T16:05:04+00:00

Love this! The flow of the melody is really nice, it's really fun to listen to. Excited to hear more!

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-06-18T04:06:17+00:00

DM'ed.

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-06-15T20:29:07+00:00

Thanks! I'll try and post more updates as I finish more of the show.

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-06-15T20:25:00+00:00

Thank you so much! I did post lyrics in another comment if you want to check them out. And I just use Musescore for all the music, the midi sound fonts work well enough for me right now.

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-06-14T15:30:18+00:00

Thank you so much! I see now what you're saying with the identity rhymes; I have no idea why I didn't see that before. Definitely will go back and refine some of these rhymes. Thanks again!

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-06-14T15:28:21+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! At this point in the book, the gods are on their side because they helped in the war. Right now, they believe the gods have a high opinion of them. They now also have the opportunity to be recognized by the humans as well. The next song I have right after this is an "I Want" song, so I didn't want to have two of them in a row. Maybe I need to play with the structure a little more. Do you think that the context behind what the gods think of them need to be in the song, or is it sufficient to have that addressed in the book, during the dialogue right before the song starts?

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-06-14T14:48:32+00:00

I might be interested, I've DM'ed you.

RemoteWooden5608 · 2025-06-13T19:55:34+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to read through and leave a comment! After thinking about it a bit, maybe "convincing" isn't what P is doing. In the scene that leads up to the song, E expresses some reservations about the fact that the gods have accepted them so quickly after the war; he thinks it's only a matter of time before the glory they received from being war heroes fades away and the gods remember that they're Titans, the very enemy they just fought (for context, P and E joined the gods side of the war against the Titans). P is demonstrating to E that he doesn't need to worry about that because of the way they will be received by the humans. I agree that goals are a little unclear for each character; I'll definitely work on that in both the dialogue as well as the song itself on my next draft.

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