“A show in progress. A story unfolding. The theater goes dark for a scene change. The orchestra, though, continues to play. A riff on the show’s dominant melody fills the house – somber or suspenseful or sweepingly romantic – and the tone of the next scene starts there, with the music.”

“A show in progress. A story unfolding. The theater goes dark for a scene change. The orchestra, though, continues to play. A riff on the show’s dominant melody fills the house – somber or suspenseful or sweepingly romantic – and the tone of the next scene starts there, with the music.”

— Julia Drake