This September, NMT is putting a spotlight on its writers. Each day, we’ll be featuring one writer or writing team’s recommended audition songs and audition tips – and sharing a discount code for their one-day-only Spotlight Sale! Today: Carmel Dean! Carmel is a composer and music director (currently of Broadway’s If/Then). You should also read Carmel’s recent interview with NMT! […]
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Carmel Dean is a composer and music director. As a writer, her work includes A Girl Called Vincent and Songs of Innocence and Experience. She was the music director for Hands on a Hardbody and American Idiot, and she’s currently music directing If/Then on Broadway. NMT: When did you start writing songs? Carmel Dean: I began writing songs when […]
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In this series of blog posts, I’ve been having conversations with people involved in the development of new musicals in all different capacities. This week I spoke with Carmel Dean, the music director of If/Then, the new musical by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt. Ms. Dean has worked on shows including American Idiot, Hands on […]
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Many (but not all) musicals are adaptations. Songwriting teams have found inspiration in plays, novels, film, television, comic strips and even paintings (obligatory Sondheim reference #1). The challenge that these teams face is to create original material around the existing material. It’s a necessary challenge, because those other forms don’t tell stories with song. Even […]
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