A Crash Course in Writing Musicals
Don’t have two years to spend studying the craft of writing musical theatre? Want to get writing right away? This Crash Course walks you through the entire process of creating your musical from start to finish, in a single weekend!
“A Crash Course in Writing Musicals” is an intense immersion into writing book, lyrics, and integrating songs. We’ll guide you from idea through outline, rough draft, song-spotting, and a look at first steps towards getting your musical produced.
You’ll also get copy of Scott’s textbook, included in the price of the course.
Here’s an excerpt from the course’s textbook.
Scott will walk you through a tried-and-true creative process (the idea, the outline, the rough draft, song-spotting, feedback), and then touch on “getting your musical produced.” Along the way, Scott will give you an intense high-level mastercourse in lyric writing, progressions, rhyme, prosody, rewriting, and other topics.
About the Instructor
Scott Guy has been actively involved as a writer and producer in both theatre and television. He has six Emmy nominations, and over 100 produced television scripts for Warner Bros., FOX-TV, Disney, Discovery Channel, PBS, etc. Upcoming/recent projects: Disney (musical version of Pirates of the Caribbean); Corday Productions (Days of Our Lives); Manson’s Girls for Hollywood Fringe Festival (Pick of the Fringe); Der Strunkenwhitenlieder at Theatre Elision. Scott is currently writing episodes for three different musical webseries: Tales from a Darkening Wood, The Last of Its Kind, and Slow Time on a Prairie Porch. Scott is the Executive Director of New Musicals Inc. where he supervises online writers’ workshops, lyric labs, and script consultations. Under Scott’s tenure, New Musicals Inc. has developed over 50 musicals for producers across the country, and over 100 independent musicals by NMI writers.
Testimonials
- “It took ANMT to lead me through the steps to learn the craft, develop the skills, and ultimately find my own voice as a writer.” (Robin Share, Windjammers.)
- “We can’t imagine how we would produce an original musical again without NMI.” (Tim Dang, East West Players.)
- “For the person interested in musical theatre, there are few places greater at bringing together support, critique, and artistic collaboration than The Academy of New Musical Theatre.” (Sachi Oyama, IMELDA.)