We used to hang out at Joss's place Sunday nights and do Shakespeare
readings. I got to do my Richard III recently. Then we'd have a few
tequilas, sit around the piano and sing. I talked to Joss years ago
about doing a Buffy musical, and then finally in the summer he sat down
and wrote "Once More, With Feeling," episode seven of season six. He's
taken the inaccessible area of musicals - why does everybody keep
singing? - and turned it to his advantage. It's the answer to "Hush,
season four's spellbinding silent episode where nobody could talk. We
all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing
those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.
[January 9, 2002]
