| It may be that Williams and McCartney don't have a lot of interest in writing musicals. Williams did write one, Thomas and the King, produced in 1975 in the West End. It flopped. Writing musicals is tough, it's collaborative, composers often have to put their egos aside for the good of the show. It's not for everyone. You work hard for at least a year, often for several years, and it flops. I think it's easy to understand why Williams hasn't written another. The surprise isn't that more people don't write them. The surprise is that so many people do. |