So there are more songs on the stage because the songs are kind of the close up.
ALAN MENKENCollaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece.
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Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece.
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Whether it’s animated, whether it’s live-action, whether it’s Broadway, whether it’s television, a musical is a musical is a musical.
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I don’t write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment.
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So, pretty much you approach the songs in pretty much the same way.
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The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries.
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It’s purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.
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I’ve always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved.
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And all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.
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And, it’s also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work.
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Collaboration is being open to each other’s ideas and benefiting from each other’s perspectives in an open way.
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If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go.
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The difference might be that in a film you have a close up. On stage you don’t.
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What you’ll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.
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It’s easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.
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Everything else is relative levels of hell.
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