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Podcast: Musical Theatre Radio presents "Be Our Guest"
Episode: Be Our Guest with Jim Betts (Dancer A Musical in Ten Furlongs)
Description: Jim is not only a writer of Canadian Musical Theatre, but a teacher and advocate as well.
His advanced age gave him an opportunity to study The Craft Of Writing For The Musical Theatre with Broadway Conductor and Composer Lehman Engel, whose tradition of teaching young musical theatre writers is still being continued at New York’s BMI Lehman Engel Workshop. After Leman’s passing in 1982, Jim helped found The Guild Of Canadian Musical Theatre Writers, where he and other of Lehman’s Canadian students tried to continue Lehman’s mentorship of aspiring composers, lyricists and librettists with cla...