Once upon a time... I was a girl of 15 sitting in the middle of a stage when I was being told "a musical only works when the audience can't tell when you're singing or when you're talking." That was 1994 and our play production class was gearing up to put on a production of "Into the Woods," a fairy tale themed musical with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (West Side Story, Company, Follies, Gypsy … [Read more...]