What are your opinions on musical books?

I have read quite a few last year and thoroughly enjoy not only getting to read the lyrics with its footnotes of inspiration and changed lines (while bopping to the soundtrack, of course) but I love getting a behind the scenes look from crafting the script, finding producers, finding the cast, the costumes and all that to bring a scrappy small idea to life as a bona-fide Broadway sensation.

Some I haven’t seen like Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 but the book made me desperately wish to see it with its pop opera aesthetic and unique setting as a Russian club where you’re actually served appetizers.

Others just add to its greatness, bringing another layer to all the talent behind the scenes and onstage like Hamilton: A Revolutionary Musical, giving credit to those we don’t always see onstage like the set designers, costumers and choreographers.

And others just offer a chance, with its lyrics and dialogue, to feel like you’re seeing it live because Broadway tickets are expensive.

What are your thoughts on musical books. Just another way for theatre geeks to spend cash or a helpful archive to how these spectacular pieces of art are made?

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