Natchez native writes music, lyrics for 'Ghost' the musical
NATCHEZ — The drama, the memorable characters, the steamy love scene — fans of “Ghost” will have an opportunity to experience the story on the stage under the musical stylings of Natchez native Glen Ballard.
Ballard, a six-time Grammy Award winning producer, songwriter and arranger, said writing lyrics for and composing his first musical has been a fulfilling experience.
“Ghost” was a popular film produced in 1990 with Hollywood’s heavy-hitters including Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg.
Ballard said audiences reacted strongly to the musical, which has run in sold-out pre-shows for six weeks in Manchester, England.
“It was quite phenomenal,” Ballard said. “Incredible reaction — standing ovations every night. And we expect it will get better.”
Ballard said writing and composing music for a musical is a different than albums or films.
“With musicals, it’s a richer, deeper involvement with storytelling,” Ballard said. “It also gives you the opportunity to have deeper, richer score because you can take the whole story and musicalize it. It allows the characters to lead you places you don’t go with a pop record.”
Each character in the stage version of “Ghost” has a musical personality, Ballard said.
“It’s a lot of fun, and it gives me a license to take detours musically,” Ballard said.
He said one of the biggest challenges to writing music for “Ghost” was to do the characters justice.
“The challenge is to understand characters in the story — you don’t want to damage what works about the piece,” Ballard said. “It’s like the oath — first do no harm.”
Ballard said one advantage to working on “Ghost” was to have Bruce Joel Rubin, who wrote the original screenplay, in the studio with him. Rubin won an Academy Award for “Ghost.”
“He knows the deep background of the characters,” Ballard said. “And I feel like I got to know these characters like friends. Molly Jensen and Oda Mae Brown, in the movie, you see them do what they do. In the show, you hear their inner voice — what they long for, what they dream about.”
Because “Ghost” filled theaters and created such a following, Ballard has to contend with audience expectations, which he believes are exceeded so far.
He said audiences will hear “Unchained Melody” from the memorable love scene, where Molly and Sam’s affections manifest at a potter’s wheel. But musical-goers will get more than that.
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