ANMT's internet channel devoted to musicals written for the web. Home of 'Guerrilla Musicals' and '15 Second Musicals'. Also interviews, documentaries, and links to national and international musical theatre online shorts.
Don't live in Los Angeles, but you still want to plug into the musical theatre writing community? We're driving internet technology to bring our workshops directly to you! Videos, online courses, one-on-one feedback from Academy instructors. WritingMusicalTheatre.com can hook you up with collaborators, and plug you into tomorrow's musical theatre world. Visit us today at WritingMusicalTheatre.com!
A comprehensive study of the Verse, the Chorus and the Refrain, and how they're used in musical theatre. Trace each structure historically, examine them in contemporary literature, and write your own examples of each. Currently offered as part of the Online Lyric Lab, this unit is offered as a stand-alone for the very first time. Because it's online, you can write at home, or wherever you have a workstation.
The Outlining Lab is a practical course designed to lead you through six steps toward developing an outline for a new musical. Lab author Elise Dewsberry says 'An outline can be an invaluable writer's tool for clarifying the structure and story arc of a musical idea. It can then serve as a blueprint for the rough draft that the collaborators will use to develop the new musical. Writers who skip this important step in the development process are likely to find themselves bogged down with a partially written new show that is riddled with logical inconsistencies, and does not compellingly deliver the intentions of the creative team.'
In the Outlining Lab, you will be lead step-by-step through the process of developing a musical idea from concept through to a working outline, with detailed constructive feedback along the way from your evaluator. By the end of this ten-unit course, you should have a well-developed and detailed outline that will solidly prepare you for the collaborative task of writing your new musical. Don't start writing until your outline is rock solid!
Want to join our Musical Theatre Writers' Workshop, but you don't live in Los Angeles? There are two options: This year for the first time, we're holding sessions of the Writers' Workshop on weekends, so you can fly in for two nights a month and still participate fully. The second option is to enroll in online lab, like the Lyric Lab, the Book Lab, or the Outlining Lab, at www.WritingMusicalTheatre.com.
A self-contained unit focuses on metaphor and simile in musical theatre lyrics, and continues with advanced metaphorical concepts such as synecdoche, allegory, metonymy, periphrasis, apostrophe, mixed metaphor and parable. Currently offered as part of the Online Advanced Lyric Lab, this unit is offered as a stand-alone for the very first time. Because it's online, you can write at home, or wherever you have a workstation.
The foundation of lyric writing: Prosody, or matching the stresses of music with stresses in the lyric. Topics include Bad Prosody, Repairing Prosody, Linear Prosody, Euphony, and Poetic Meter versus Spoken and Musical Meter. Currently offered as part of the Online Advanced Lyric Lab, this unit is offered as a stand-alone for the very first time. Because it's online, you can write at home, or wherever you have a workstation.
The Advanced Lyric Lab is offered online only for graduates of the Lyric Lab, and covers additional topics such as Character Through Diction, Linear Prosody, Conversational Prosody, Additional Progressions, Metaphor, Simile, List Songs and Twist Songs. It concludes with a powerful unit on Metaphor and Simile in musical theatre lyrics, and continues with advanced metaphorical concepts such as synecdoche, allegory, metonymy, periphrasis, apostrophe, mixed metaphor and parable.
Want to join our Musical Theatre Writers' Workshop, but you don't live in Los Angeles? There are two options: This year for the first time, we're holding sessions of the Writers' Workshop on weekends, so you can fly in for two nights a month and still participate fully. The second option is to enroll in online lab, like the Lyric Lab, the Book Lab, or the Outlining Lab, at www.WritingMusicalTheatre.com.
Want to write an online musical? Check out the guerrilla musicals on www.anmt.tv -- spontaneous musicals bursting out in unexpected places. Write a guerrilla musical and send it to us for posting!
