In this fourth and final part of our video interview with Tony-nominees Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the composers speak about the challenges for young authors to strike the balance between social media activities and self-promotion on the one hand, and actual writing and creative work on the other. We would like to say a…
In this third part of our interview with Tony-award nominees Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the young composers of “A Christmas Story”, “Edges”, “Dogfight” and NBC’s “Smash” talk about how social media like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube helped them breaking through.
Benj Pasek: I would think: to get to that place you need to think about how do you get your work out there. Nobody is going to just say: „I am going to produce that person’s show!“ So really, you have to think in terms of being your own producer and getting your work out…
Tony-nominated composers Benj Pasek & Justin Paul talk about the differences between writing a stand-alone cabaret song and a song for a show. Justin Paul: It is two really different things: writing a stand-alone cabaret song and writing a song in a show. It is something we actually learned about from Lynn Ahrens… Benj Pasek…