Living miles away from New York as a Broadway fan can be fairly frustrating. It's great to see and read all the buzz surrounding new shows but actually enjoying the shows live, the way they are meant to be experienced, is not something I can afford to do very often. That's why I've always been [...]
No one deconstructs musical theatre songs like Seth Rudetsky does. Not only is he incredibly astute to all the different layers packed within a song, but he’s also got such a great personality and sense of humour. I thoroughly enjoy the way he lip-syncs along to the recordings, never fails to point out his favourite [...]
I’ve been putting off this blog post because I wanted it to be perfect. But I realise I will probably never adequately capture what I’d like to say so should just start it or will never get around to writing it. Since discovering Seth Rudetsky, his YouTube videos have brought me an insane amount of [...]
For most song writers, I imagine that there is a fair amount of freedom with regards to the words they can choose to put to a melody. There are exceptions of course. For example some pop artists might be pressured to include repetitive lyrics in order to create a catchy hook. But for the most [...]
