Composer Joshua Schmidt on the Challenge of Making Shaw Sing in A Minister's Wife
About the author: Until now, there has been one notable musical adaptation of a play by George Bernard Shaw. Actually, My Fair Lady is a lot more than notable—the Pygmalion-inspired tuner is widely considered one of the best musicals ever written. Composer Joshua Schmidt was well aware of this when he was approached to turn Shaw’s Candida—the story of a Victorian Socialist minister’s wife bei…