barry manilow has spent his career wanting to write musicals — with harmony, it's finally happening
never wanted to be a pop star. His first and deepest love is musical theater . But after working as a musical director and arranger and accompanist, he fell into the singing career that has nabbed him Grammy Awards, Top 40 singles, and over a dozen platinum albums.
After dreaming about it for years, the pair decided to make a go of writing a musical after collaborating on the scores for animated films. "The classic animated films follow the Rodgers and Hammerstein formula for writing a musical," says Sussman. "So when we had a chance to do that, it was time to roll up our sleeves. If anything that lit the fire in both of us to say, 'Listen, we've got to get back to the stage because that was such a joyful experience.
Sharing pages from the draft of the script prior to the current iteration, Sussman and Manilow break down a key scene from early in the musical.In this draft, Sussman was trying to determine whether he should insert a marriage proposal from Chopin to Ruth before or after Rabbi's narration. "The proposal is in, and we love it," Sussman says. "There were two spots that I was considering, and I put it in the later moment. We staged it a few days ago and I like it a lot.
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