But How to Succeed is almost entirely plot songs.
It's common practice when writing about a movie to offer at least a sketch of the plot; with "Song to Song," that banality becomes an act of criticism and of enthusiasm in itself.
The instrumental sextet Do Make Say Think, from Toronto, is one: it plays long, heavily plotted songs that are spacey, gooey with echo, densely layered and often beautiful.
(D ) Plot of song self-similarity, normalized to the average self-similarity of pre-surgery song.
(F ) Plot of song self-similarity of AIV-lesioned birds (gray) and electrolytically lesioned birds for 2 weeks after surgery.
They develop and apply computational tools to analyze sonograms, the plots of song frequencies and duration.
Then came "Trapped in the Closet," the plot-packed song that keeps growing.
Mr. Kushner's lyrics for a show whose music is more organically plotted than song oriented are poetically layered images that use the idea of the below-sea-level altitude of parts of Louisiana as a metaphor for historical fluidity.
Then composers like George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers began to write musical comedies with "plot" numbers — songs that came out of situations in the story — and lyric-writers like Lorenz Hart and Ira Gershwin turned out slick, polysyllabic rhymes that had to do with love, all right, but not at the expense of reason.
Because I'm a Tina Turner fan first, so that's a responsibility and I don't take that lightly". Details of the plot and songs included in the show haven't been announced yet, but producers say it will be a fairly comprehensive telling of Turner's life story - not shying away from issues such as the domestic abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband Ike.
In the 53 years since the show's premiere, millions have fallen in love with its plot, its songs, and even attended "sing-along" screenings of the film.
