Modulations and Motivations: "I Have Danced" from Maury Yeston's Titanic
Have you ever found yourself staring blankly at a musical theatre score, intending to begin analysis, but find yourself at a loss of...
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Kerry Auer Fergus
- Apr 28, 2019
- 5 min
Wants and Needs: Analyzing the structure and function of Wicked's "The Wizard and I"
It's no secret that Stephen Schwartz's Wicked is one of the biggest commercial successes on Broadway in recent history. After all, it's...
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Kerry Auer Fergus
- Apr 15, 2018
- 4 min
Songwriting 101: A Lesson from Ahrens and Flaherty
There's such a thing as theatre magic. It's what has drawn each of us to the stage. Sometimes it feels like this intangible thing - a...
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Kerry Auer Fergus
- Mar 8, 2018
- 6 min
Everything Old is New Again
Pastiche. It's a word you've probably come across in your musical studies. But what makes something "pastiche" and how should it be...
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Kerry Auer Fergus
- Oct 10, 2017
- 7 min
Necessity as the Mother of Invention: "Twin Soliloquies" and "Send in the Clowns"
Let's take a look at "Twin Soliloquies" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific and "Send in the Clowns" from Sondheim's A Little...
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Kerry Auer Fergus
- Jun 16, 2017
- 9 min
Billy Bigelow's Soliloquy
Father's Day is this weekend, so I figured it would be appropriate to talk about one of Broadway's most notorious fathers: Carousel's...
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Kerry Auer Fergus
- Jun 9, 2017
- 5 min
The Last Five Years and the Next Ten Minutes
No matter what musical you're working on, the love duet is always a pivotal moment of the show. In the case of Jason Robert Brown's The...
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Kerry Auer Fergus
- Jun 2, 2017
- 5 min
She Loves Me and the Musical Question Mark
What with the recent Broadway revival starring Laura Benanti and Zachary Levi, I feel like She Loves Me is at peak popularity right now. ...
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Kerry Auer Fergus
- May 8, 2017
- 3 min
Spoofing High Opera: "You Were Dead, You Know" from Bernstein's Candide
Today we’re going to tackle one of my favorite love duets, “You Were Dead, You Know” from Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Candide. But...
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