Nightmares
Yup, right on schedule, I'm starting to have the old nightmare about being unprepared for a university exam. I always have that dream when I'm butted up against a major deadline. I think I'll feel a little better after I talk to my composer today and get a sense of the second act song. He had a bolt of inspiration and came up with the music for the only new song in the second act. Now I have to break the news to him that there might be another two new songs in the second act. I think my biggest stress right now is that I'm not a lyricist and I have to be able to write the songs in the show to tell the story I need to tell. It's maddening to try to capture a sense of story, character and emotion and have to be melodic and rhythmic at the same time. Argh!
I think I'll just plow through the lyrics and tell the story first. Then I'll beg my composer to help make the words sound prettier.