MUSC2150 (Making a Musical: Analysis, Craft, and Creation) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Average rating 2.5/5. Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Explores how great musicals are constructed and what tools are needed, focusing on how effective lyrics are built; how songs function in musicals; and how book writers, lyricists, and composers create new works and adapt existing works from other media to the musical theater stage. Offers students an opportunity to transform analytical techniques and discoveries into creative strategies, building short musicals in collaborative teams. Students need not be musicians to participate in this class. Aspiring actors, composers, lyricists, authors of all styles, technical theater artists and designers, and all those with a curiosity about the history of musicals and how musicals are made are strongly encouraged to enroll.
Data updated October 2026.