Major
Musical Theater
Faculty Advisor
Williams, Matthew C.
Abstract
This document will account the process, from research and analysis through post-production reflection, of writing, composing, directing, and producing an original musical as a part of not only Southern Illinois University Carbondale's School of Theater & Dance, but also as part of FIERCE: Musical Theatre. This paper highlights the steps taken by me as a playwright and composer, but also as a director, and as an officer of FIERCE, the musical theatre RSO. The first section introduces the musical as a concept and explores the ideas that came to fruition through this process. In the second section, you will find documentation and details of my experience as a director of this show. Following that is a comparison of different drafts of the script in order to showcase the developmental process of a musical. Furthermore, there is a dramaturgical packet, which details the research needed throughout this process and contains the works cited and any other information one might need when producing the musical. The complete script itself is not included here, but the complete plot and examples of it, as to preserve the rights of the playwright and to emphasize that, while we produced a "final draft", this process was merely a stepping stone for the future of myself as an artist.