For its practitioners musical theatre is an art a passion and a lifelong love. But it's also a complex landscape involving not merely principles of craft about book music and lyrics but also principles of collaboration script/demo presentation project/production development venue business and - everybody's area of uncertainty - politics. In "The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide" award-winning musical dramatist and teacher David Spencer provides a guide-to-the-game that helps you negotiate all those aspects of the business and more. Paperback
This professional handbook will walk you through: getting your name and your projects into the hands of producers instead of the rejection pile choosing the right producer agent or director instead of surrounding yourself with people uninterested in your work and your career - or interested for the wrong reasons bringing your vision to life through stage-savvy writing instead of watching it sputter due to flaws in craft and living a happy healthy life in musicals instead of dying a slow showbiz death. If you're taking your first steps Spencer's counsel anecdotes and instructions will save you years of blindly stumbling about without results. Likewise if you've been around the block a few times "The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide" can rescue you from the kinds of career-stalling traps bad habits and false assumptions that lead to dead ends.
 
