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The Anatomy of the Musical Episodes

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  1. The Take-Home Number

    3/3 Russell Davies on the necessity of hit numbers, and songs that live on when a show ends.

  2. The Love Song

    2/3 How lyricists avoid cliches to preserve sentiment without sentimentality.

  3. The Opener

    1/3 Russell Davies shows how first songs set the tone musically, in lyrics and in staging.