What I love about Sondheim

-His acerbic tone when he’s interviewed -The variety of worlds that he writes about – and then finds the styles to write them in -That entertainment can be clever and being clever is delicious -The wordplay, even though sometimes it reads better than it sings -That you feel “this is true, I agree with this”

Friend

We wrote this song for a friend years ago.  She asked for something along the lines of “Unrequited Love”.  We don’t have a lot of one-off songs, but we love this song.  There’s been a couple of great performances of it, including Christen O’Leary at the Melbourne Festival concert, but this is a particularly great

Opinions…

Reviews are funny things.  When they’re bad, you say they don’t matter, but when they’re great…well, they feel really nice.  After ten years, we’re kind of used to getting reviews – they do tend to even out after a while – but when we got our first reviews – ooh, the drama of it.  The

Photosynthesis

Writing musicals for a career is not that smart a move.  It’s the sort of career where you can make a killing but not a living.  Ie, if your musical takes off, you can never need to write again, but really, the musicals that take off are the lucky few that make it to Broadway

Brand New Eyes

Blogging, eh?  Sounds like another way to avoid the writing that we actually set up this site to promote etc. Why blog?  The website – http://www.bryantandfrank.com – is designed to be useful, informative and aesthetically pleasing, but not really to interact with music theatre fans, so we thought a blog would be the way to