Someone please correct me if I am off-base, but I think that the "new" material has to be more than 50% of the score by time, not by song. So a dance break counts as "new" material, and I think underscore might also.
A huge percentage of dance/incidental music in ANY show is based on the existing tunes. So I don't think this makes much sense. Otherwise, any revival of a show that has new arrangements of the old tunes could win best score, and that isn't true. |
