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Um, we, we got to brainstorming.

Um, and I was particularly interested in the romantic poets because I'd studied them at English A level, so I'd seen a bit of, um, Lord Byron's poetry.

And Lord Byron as a character in particular, I think people are quite, um, quite familiar with him.

He's quite infamous.

Um, so we did a bit of digging, a bit of researching.

We stumbled across John Polidori's diary, and that's when we really started to find, um, our golden nugget for the musical, is there's so much in that diary that we thought this would be brilliant if it was staged.

I mean, it, o- o- on a more basic level, w- w- where do you start with writing a musical, you know? I- i- is it that you've got ideas for songs in your head and you fit dialogue and a narrative around it, or do you, you know, create the script and then the music, you know, and lyrics slot into place after that?