{"id":501,"date":"2023-09-25T10:18:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T10:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2023-09-25T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T10:35:51","slug":"votm-16-tom-kitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"VotM #16 Tom Kitt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>25. 9.23 I&#8217;m so very excited to bring you an interview with one of the most hard-working and successful writers around. Composer\/lyricist for If\/Then, High Fidelity, Bring it On, Almost Famous and of course the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal, Tom was in London for rehearsals for the UK premiere of NtN, and generously gave me some time to chat (from my holiday cottage in France). The interview is preceded by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary, letting us know their Desert Island Musicals. What will they pick&#8230;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tom_Kitt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tom_Kitt.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tom_Kitt.png 533w, https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tom_Kitt-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tom_Kitt-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4036\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-501-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Votm_Tom_Kitt.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Votm_Tom_Kitt.mp3\">https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Votm_Tom_Kitt.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Votm_Tom_Kitt.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/?powerpress_pinw=501-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Votm_Tom_Kitt.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Votm_Tom_Kitt.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25. 9.23 I&#8217;m so very excited to bring you an interview with one of the most hard-working and successful writers around. Composer\/lyricist for If\/Then, High Fidelity, Bring it On, Almost Famous and of course the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal, Tom was in London for rehearsals for the UK premiere of NtN, and generously gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composer","category-lyricist","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}