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I’ve been doing this thing lately where I pretend I’m back in college, and my projects are all courses.
Taking this lyric seminar w Menken.
Prepping my directing thesis on Jonathan Larson.
#HisDarkMaterials is like, my phys. ed. class.
Keeps me in a learning headspace.
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Taking this lyric seminar w Menken.
Prepping my directing thesis on Jonathan Larson.
#HisDarkMaterials is like, my phys. ed. class.
Keeps me in a learning headspace.
1/2
Thinking of it this way also allows me to make connections between the projects that help.
Example: you can’t write Mermaid without learning all about Howard Ashman, who we lost too soon to HIV/AIDS, around the same time as Larson was writing Tick Tick, and losing friends. 2/2
Example: you can’t write Mermaid without learning all about Howard Ashman, who we lost too soon to HIV/AIDS, around the same time as Larson was writing Tick Tick, and losing friends. 2/2
So the research for both is a deep dive on this generation of artists we lost at this time, from two angles. 3/2
