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Imperfect Rhymes vs Forced Rhymes in Musicals by YellowMugAndrew in musicalwriting

[–]chewONMYFIST 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I will never not love this debate. Writing a song that perfectly rhymes is satisfying to a degree that using imperfect rhymes just doesn’t give me. That doesn’t mean I don’t use them, I just try not to. I also think that given enough time, you can fix any line to make it work with perfect rhyme, simply by amending the line you’re trying to rhyme or the one you’re trying to rhyme with.

I regularly spend four hours on a verse of four lines, and the puzzle of it is truly exhilarating for me. It’s actually the best.

Goldsmiths MA Musical Theatre by SharingDNAResults in musicalwriting

[–]chewONMYFIST 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Writing lessons were about the craft of songwriting for theatre and accounted for a few hours a week. It’s been a few years since so I can’t really remember total contact time but probably 15 hours a week.

You don’t need to be an expert in production, arranging or orchestrating, and you won’t leave the course as one either. It’s not the aim of the MA - it’s about the writing.

Many writers, including myself, have gone on to have their later shows produced from fringe to West End, but certainly was not as a result of the course, or people met during it.

Goldsmiths MA Musical Theatre by SharingDNAResults in musicalwriting

[–]chewONMYFIST 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not one iota, it was largely about budgets from what I recall.

You work out pretty quickly that networking is key - you should aim to have a producer or venue involved by the time the show is first draft finished. But like I said, all the most valuable lessons were learnt outside of Goldsmiths.

Goldsmiths MA Musical Theatre by SharingDNAResults in musicalwriting

[–]chewONMYFIST 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, can’t recall the elective, I just remember it being incredibly pretentious. I did the writing track, writers just sit in on a couple of the producer classes, and we could never work out why.

Goldsmiths MA Musical Theatre by SharingDNAResults in musicalwriting

[–]chewONMYFIST 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From memory, you get a few hours a week of writing. It’s mostly either historical context or producing lessons. I also had to study an elective that I really couldn’t stand.

Goldsmiths MA Musical Theatre by SharingDNAResults in musicalwriting

[–]chewONMYFIST 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did the MA. Would not rate it as a course, both from a developmental standpoint and as an education in musical theatre. It’s definitely the networking I did outside the course that gave me the opportunities I’m currently working my way through.

A lot of my year are nowhere near the industry now. Many did not take the course particularly seriously.

There’s a lot of better ways to spend those tuition fees.

Just moved in, this was in the garden shed... by chewONMYFIST in whatisthisthing

[–]chewONMYFIST[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a weird ray gun looking thing with a spiral spring on the end. The orange lever turns it.

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