What are the differences in composing for stage and screen? What are some challeneges you have faced in one medium that you have not faced in the other?
Stephen Schwartz: I think the chief difference in writing for stage and animation is that in the movies, one has to be much more aware of the visual. On stage, the most effective moment in a musical can be one performer standing alone on stage in a spotlight and singing his or her heart out. If someone’s going to be singing a ballad in animation, she better be going over a waterfall in a canoe. Of course, both stage and animation, being essentially artificial media, lend themselves well to musicals, since the audience has already suspended its disbelief, and, therefore, isn’t troubled when characters break into song. It’s much harder to do in a realistic medium like live-action film.
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