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525,600 minutes . . .

July 23rd, 2013

Recently I have been thinking a lot about the musical “Rent”. One particular song has become an earworm–“Seasons of Life”. However, the pretty melody of the complete song is not what keeps ringing in my head. It’s the short phrase: “five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes”. Great—now it’s in your head too! It’s as …

Writing a Musical in Austin, Texas

July 4th, 2013

Hi, I’m Miriam and welcome to my blog. Since I write musical theatre (mostly as a composer and lyricist, but sometimes as a bookwriter), this blog will be about my journey in creating and producing my work. In addition, since I tend to have an opinion about things—especially musical theatre (and food)—I will be commenting …