But with all its faults, I’ll never break up with theatre. My love for musicals meant that I had the pleasure of including of musical Easter eggs in Something Cheeky. I wanted to share a handful of musicals that inspired various parts of this novel.
Fellow romance writer/reader here, and I did not know that we had a theater background in common! I never worked professionally, although I've done more school and community productions than I can count and I still perform every once in a while if the opportunity is right (I played Rosie in Mamma Mia just before the pandemic and more recently was Calliope in Xanadu). My daughter worked professionally as a child, though, doing regional theater here in CT later touring the US as Jane Banks in the first national tour of Mary Poppins. Navigating the biz as a "stage mom" was a whole new experience. Like you, I have written books with the theater as a backdrop, but I really look forward to reading Something Cheeky and getting your perspective on own voices in the theater, something I know my daughter, who got her BFA in musical theater and is focusing on the writing side of the business now, is very concerned about as well.
That's so cool! I performed a little bit in college but was too in my head to be good at it. Theatre has changed so much since I worked in it. Though change is slow for some. There's some great theatres in DC who value inclusicivity and lift up underrepresented voices. I wish they are the rule and not the exception.
Fellow romance writer/reader here, and I did not know that we had a theater background in common! I never worked professionally, although I've done more school and community productions than I can count and I still perform every once in a while if the opportunity is right (I played Rosie in Mamma Mia just before the pandemic and more recently was Calliope in Xanadu). My daughter worked professionally as a child, though, doing regional theater here in CT later touring the US as Jane Banks in the first national tour of Mary Poppins. Navigating the biz as a "stage mom" was a whole new experience. Like you, I have written books with the theater as a backdrop, but I really look forward to reading Something Cheeky and getting your perspective on own voices in the theater, something I know my daughter, who got her BFA in musical theater and is focusing on the writing side of the business now, is very concerned about as well.
That's so cool! I performed a little bit in college but was too in my head to be good at it. Theatre has changed so much since I worked in it. Though change is slow for some. There's some great theatres in DC who value inclusicivity and lift up underrepresented voices. I wish they are the rule and not the exception.