William Forrest
American theatre actor
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Sep 22, 2026
Vamps and Pedal Points as Storytelling in Your Favorite Musicals with William Forrest
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William ForrestGUEST
Or even, or Don't Rain On My Parade, it's like Again, this is a, it's a common thing in musical theater.

William ForrestGUEST
The interesting thing about both of the things we're talking about, both vamps and pedal points or pedal tone or pedal, there's different ways to talk about it or call that what you would call it.

William ForrestGUEST
But it really started to get more popular, I think, in musicals sometime around the 60s.

William ForrestGUEST
Not that they weren't there before, because vamps especially certainly were in sort of the tradition of pedal point.
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