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Yes, tempus does fugit. When BACK TO THE FUTURE debuted in 1985, it sent the time-traveling Marty McFly to 1955 – thirty years earlier. Now, since its July, 1985 debut, more than thirty-SIX years have passed. Time hasn’t flown for Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, its Oscar-nominated screenwriters. They would have never believed in 2006 […]

The first song he ever learned to play on the piano was “A Hundred Million Miracles” from FLOWER DRUM SONG. Well, here’s Paul Ford now, telling, if not a hundred million stories, plenty that have impact. They’re the result of his career as a rehearsal pianist (THE SECRET GARDEN, et al.) and a pianist in […]

As you’ll hear from the new original cast album, FLYING OVER SUNSET takes one of musical theater’s most-often-applied rules and does it one better. We’ve often been told that characters in musicals sing when they’re so excited that simple speech simply will no longer suffice. In this recent James Lapine-Tom Kitt-Michael Korie musical, four characters […]

We know February as Black History Month, National Bird-Feeding Month and LGBT+ History Month (in the United Kingdom, anyway). It should be Broadway Songwriters History Month, too. To be sure, we could have long earmarked the second month of year for our songwriters, considering that some musical theater giants were born in it. First, Harold […]

Here’s hoping that on February 14th, you and your Valentine had a better time with love than lyricists have had. I don’t mean Alan Jay Lerner, who married eight times. (Yes, EIGHT. And this from the man who wrote “How to Handle a Woman.”) No, lyricists have been plagued by love because so many musicals […]