All first acts must end on a cliffhanger. This is also true for Act One's finale for Pride and Prejudice - The Musical. I’m Josie Brown, the librettist. With Emmy-award winning composer - We discuss how she conceived it as a reprise to CHANGING WORLD — and why she felt it should be sung by the Bennet family, instead of, like the original, sung by the two sets of lovers, Mr. Bingley and Jane and Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth.

On our next podcast, we’ll be listening to one of my all-time favorite songs in the musical: Being Married, a duet by Charlotte and Mr. Collins. It is also Act 2 opening number, and considering our audience’s ecstatic receptions, deservedly so.

Can’t wait to hear more of the musical's songs? Go to our website — PrideAndPrejudiceTheMusical.com — where you may listen to all of them, download our Reviews brochure, and see videos of some of the productions.

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In a town as small as Meryton, it’s every woman of a marrying age for herself. Now, add to that you’re competing with four beauties from one household alone — The Bennet sisters, Jane, Elizabeth, Kitty and Lydia (notice I didn’t include sweet, plain Mary in that line-up — and every other gal in town has to work doubly hard on her flirting and feminine wiles.

Then you have Charlotte Lucas. Moving quickly toward her prime, even sporting a title won’t get her what she wants: a husband. Or will it?

In this episode of Pride and Prejudice the Musical Podcast, Librettist Josie Brown asks Lyricist-Composer Rita Abrams to explain how she came up with lyrics for Charlotte’s solo, “In My Imagination,” that are both hilarious and poignant, yet explain the spinster's dilemma so succinctly.

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Love. Longing. And relations that can be liabilities. All of these issues play into Composer-Lyricist Rita Abram’s song, sung by the four leads of Pride and Prejudice the musical: ELIZABETH BENNET, JANE BENNET, CHARLES BINGLEY, AND FITZWILLIAM DARCY. This is Josie Brown, Librettist of Pride and Prejudice the Musical. In this episode, I have the joy of interviewing Rita about her process for putting the myriad feelings of this quartet in harmony.

On our next podcast, we’ll be listening to one of my all-time favorite songs in the musical: Being Married, a duet by Charlotte and Mr. Collins. It is also Act 2 opening number, and considering our audience’s ecstatic receptions, deservedly so.

Can’t wait to hear more of the musical's songs? Go to our website — PrideAndPrejudiceTheMusical.com — where you may listen to all of them, download our Reviews brochure, and see videos of some of the productions.

(c) 2024 Josie Brown. All rights reserved.

This is a copyrighted episode of Pride and Prejudice - The Podcast. Any use by AI is expressly prohibited.