Interview with Tom Cipullo, Pt. 4

I might get  a little to theoretical in these posts, but since theory is not my strongest suite, I am hopeful that we won't get too bogged down.

I have a list of themes in my book.  If I was talking about an opera by Wagner, I might call them "leitmotifs."  As we have been going through the score, if I hear another actor's line of music in the orchestra, I write the words down in that spot.  It is a clue as to some of the subtext that is going on in the drama of the show.  These clues don't necessarily give an exact opinion, they simply give a starting point for discussions among the cast and directors as to what we want to try to accomplish in the scene.