The 110th post in the video blog from NMI Artistic Director Elise Dewsberry - How to Get NO Feedback from Elise. The Final Year: Tools of a Scene: A book scene in a musical needs to be especially concise and yet accomplish a great deal. Here are some tools to help with that!
RELATED VLOGS TO CHECK OUT:
Vlog 17 - THE WORK OF A SCENE - PART 1 - THE MOMENT BEFORE - https://youtu.be/6x2l8gyuzzM
Vlog 18 - THE WORK OF A SCENE - PART 2 - PLOT - https://youtu.be/3lHhrCwBPyE
Vlog 19 - THE WORK OF A SCENE - PART 3 - POINTING FORWARD - https://youtu.be/NVt4pqUonVM
Vlog 20 - THE WORK OF A SCENE - PART 4 - PLANTING SEEDS - https://youtu.be/MihrHFtxPog
Vlog 26 - CHARACTER DICTION - https://youtu.be/e0k9d8-d-kA
Vlog 27 - EXPOSITION - https://youtu.be/HcwbBvLU-Y0
Vlog 31 -ASSIGNMENT: CHARACTER DICTION - https://youtu.be/C2KV8mpZKec
Vlog 62- Revisiting EXPOSITION - https://youtu.be/zTxh9Kh5I1U
Vlog 63- Revisiting DICTION - https://youtu.be/-P8xxC7RIuU
Vlog 91 - Text vs. Subtext - https://youtu.be/F2TbDe6IsP4
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Author: Elise Dewsberry
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc., Elise has been involved in the development of new works for over forty years: as an actor/singer, as a director, as a dramaturge, and as a writer. While living in Toronto, Elise served as the Assistant Artistic Director of the Muskoka Festival; the Co-Ordinator of the festival’s annual Musical Theatre Writer’s Colony, the Associate Dramaturge of the Canadian Stage Company; the Resident Dramaturge of the Smile Theatre Company; and was the co-founder of Toronto’s Script Lab. Elise spent many years touring Canada with Nine Months – a one-woman musical which she commissioned from writers Carl Ritchie and Stephen Woodjetts. Elise and Carl also co-wrote Any Body Home?, which was produced by the Cordova Bay Theatre in Victoria, British Columbia, and published by Dramatic Publishing. Elise joined ANMT as Associate Artistic Director in 2003; joined Founding Artistic Director John Sparks as Co-Artistic Director in 2010; and became Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc. in 2013. Elise is also the author and evaluator of the Book Lab and the Outlining Lab, offered online through www.writingmusicaltheatre.com, and publishes a monthly blog on the craft of musical theatre available at https://nmi.org/elises-video-blog/.