[Poll Book Tally] Writing Musical Theater by Allen Cohen and Steven L. Rosenhaus 4 stars

[Karin]

Make no mistake, this is an educational book, not an entertaining one, but it is a great overview to writing musical theatre with strong examples plus they have even included samples of how beginning projects might look. The back has some good resources and suggestions. That said, if you haven't seen many of the musicals (or not for a long time) some of it can be a bit dry. There is good reason why you virtually never see one person alone writing everything for a musical theater production--only an extremely tiny number of people would have all of the know-how and overall talent to do this. Since I don't watch that much musical theater I plan to make a point of watching (and, for some re-watching) his list.

Too bad I have to return it to the library someday when it reopens, because it would be worth keeping (ie I might buy a copy or something like it.)