David Spencer's 'Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide' Launches Web Site

With the 2005 award season in full tilt and Broadway's biggest musicals competing for the coveted Tony Award, everyone is asking what makes a great musical. Prior to the anticipated release of David Spencer's The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide, the comprehensive reference book about creating musical theatre, a dedicated website has been launched featuring a weekly serialization and sneak peek at the industry secrets required to create a successful musical.

Visit www.aislesay.com/NY-GUIDE-Glimpses.html for the first in a series of author David Spencer's weekly tips in writing a successful musical libretto. Legendary characters of the musical theater: Gypsy's "Mama Rose," The Producers' "Max Bialystock," Fiddler on the Roof's "Tevye" - Selling Point #1 illustrates the driving force of the successful musical -the larger-than-life hero with the ambitious quest.

The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide, with a foreword by Tony Award © winning Avenue Q composer-lyricists Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, will be released by Heinemann Publishing on June 16, 2005 and available in bookstores nationwide early July.

The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide is a wholly unique "guide-to-the-game" filled with never before published information ranging from indispensable principles of art and craft to practical considerations of politics and presentation. From the pen of award-winning composer, lyricist, librettist and teacher David Spencer, The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide offers a bracing refresher for industry veterans, an invaluable sourcebook for aspiring musical dramatists, and a lively and accessible look at the form for all musical theatre enthusiasts.

Spencer's comprehensive guide navigates the complex landscape of developing a musical from the page to the stage, with invaluable, time saving and tried-and-true techniques.

The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide will retail for $19.95 at Barnes and Noble and other major bookstores from July 25 and is currently available for a pre-order discounted price of $13.57 at www.amazon.com and $17.95 ($16.15 member price) at www.barnesandnoble.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT
www.aislesay.com/NY-GUIDE.html
www.heinemanndrama.com