The man behind the lyrics - an interview with Glenn Slater

[TsWade2]

Well, he maybe did a bad job making lyrics of LND, but he's not a bad lyricist. I think he should stick with Alan Menken than Andrew Lloyd Webber.

[Tracena22]

Well, I sure do love "I See the Light." It certainly deserved the Oscar. The lyrics that follow, "...now that I see you" flowed with Avatar's "I see you" from the year before.

[ker246]

Some song's lyrics were decent, even good ("Til I Hear You Sing", "Beauty Underneath"), but most were just unbelievably bad, just ridiculously bad, especially compared to other Webber musicals (I have to say, Don Black from Sunset Boulevard and Charles Hart from Phantom really set the bar high).

Despite that, I still respect Slater, since The Little Mermaid has very good lyrics. Too bad LND didn't.

[sacredfem]

LND was freaking amazing. Beneath a moonless sky breaks my heart everytime. <33

[hackensac]

this is the guy who wrote the lyrics for Home on the Range? Menken was better off with Ashman (RIP)

[TheBlackHeartedRose]

i think he did a fantastic job as a lyricist myself it is incredibly hard sometime to easy but for LND the spaces he had to fill in i fell he did for the best or we would have gotten lost some where

[NichtOliver]

Some of Glenn's lyrics are absolutely genius, others are horrible. He's not very consistent.

For, "Beauty Underneath", the entire song is epic! However, with other numbers, many of the lyrics just seem put there to fill space. There's no heart behind them.

I love half of him, but hate the other. He has that superb diamond analogy in the final number (which gave me goosebumps), but he also repeats "beautiful" over sixty times in a matter of minutes...

[honestly6]

<3 the lyrics for Beneath The Moonless Sky and My Dear Old Friend but for Once Upon Another Time, "And maybe I was wrong but now the moment's gone" - unforgivable.

[talistur]

I like some of the lyrics, and I loathe others. The biggest thing in LND that bothered me was that he used "stuff" in his rhymescheme. Ugh. But the music itself, is beautiful. I think some of the rhymescheme could've been chosen differently, though.

[theblacksister]

@talistur I agree.

[Erikslady]

The songs are atrocious, no one will be humming them, EVER, Mr Slater is so knowledgeable about the original Phantom, he stated that the Phantom didn't have any solo's,

WTF ??? yes, I can see why he was chosen !

[lydiaphan12]

I completely disagree! Mr. Slater's lyrics for LND are wonderful, okay yeah, some words he picked did not come out with the best of details but....the songs lyrics are filled with the emotions needed in such a play as this.

[Themusicintheair]

He is very talented!

[lizlovestheatre]

His lyrics were "okay" for Little Mermaid...still pretty simple, but for Love Never Dies? No. Where was the mystery and intricacy of the first? Of course, there's a lot more wrong with LND than the lyrics, so I guess it's not entirely his fault it's a nightmare.

[below14thstreet]

To be honest, the lyrics ruined the show for me. They're so obvious and uninspired.

[yevsterus]

Booo! This man has ruined so much great music in LND. "I'll always feel no more than halfway real 'till I hear you sing..." That's like saying, "I always wear brown pants until next Monday". Oh, and "I ache down to the core..." Yes, I ache down to the nucleus, down to the kernel... I'm not familiar with his other work, but from LND, it seems like he can't turn a phrase to save his live.

[lizlovestheatre]

100 percent agreed.

[gUrAcoX463]

what? cmon that first line is the best line in the whole production, and both of the lines make normal sense whether you think about it or not. if you want to be a real editor, just follow some of my friends lol, they can't turn phrases to save their lives.

[RentandWicked]

AMAZING lyrics to Love Never Dies and The Little Mermaid On Broadway. so talented and love this album

[22alethea]

I hear you man. It's so hard to write lyrics to songs I compose in music class. My teacher is always saying all these rules!

[hazellwood]

I didn't like most of the lyrics, actually.

[TheWonderDogJack]

w00t first comment!