Master these essentials and you can pick up your Tony Award.
Musicals are created by a disparate group of composers lyricists book writers producers directors choreographers theater owners investors general managers casting directors press agents musical directors orchestrators dance arrangers stage managers and assistants. In "The Anatomy of a Musical" producer Stuart Ostrow examines all of these in an attempt to fathom the musical's miraculous development from the idea to the stage. Ostrow evaluates both the tangible and intangible essentials of a musical that make it fly or remain earthbound - music lyrics book dance direction scenery costumes lighting actors energy lunacy drama show savvy and exhilaration.
