As with the Tanz der Vampire post, we are in stage musical territory and so I am a bit out of my element for talking about some of this work. However, unlike Tanz der Vampire, at least this one is in the language I know! I have also never seen a performance of this show,…

In 1997, fresh off the success of Celine Dion’s version of “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” Steinman ended up getting called to an unusual project. As we transition to discussing the musical, I want to acknowledge a debt to Gibson DelGiudice’s blog for a wealth of background information that was easily digestible for…

Back in the early days of this project of writing about all of Jim Steinman’s music, I was stymied by this song and never got around to writing about it. Well, the day has come. As a general rule, people like to split things into extreme binaries and ignore everything in between. The internet and…