Masi Asare

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Masi Asare is a composer, lyricist, and a musical theatre professor at Northwestern University. She has provided music for theatre productions including The Family Resemblance, Rishvor, Monsoon Wedding, Mirror of Most Value, and many others. In this episode Asare and Rhett talk about finding your voice of expression in art, “collective imagining” amongst theatre audience members, staying creative when inspiration feels elusive, and much more. Rhett relates his musical experience to Asare’s despite the two being from completely different musical realms, and Asare provides experienced, battle-tested insights for young musicians. Upcoming episodes of Wheels Off include author Zibby Owens, writer Tony Weaver Jr., The Doors’ John Densmore, author Lily Brooks-Dalton, Lord Huron’s Ben Schneider, Liz Phair, and more. Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted by Rhett Miller. Produced by Rhett Miller, Kirsten Cluthe, and Nick Ruffini. Editing by Justin Thomas. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like this podcast, please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:05.1	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:06.7	That's when it got wheels off.
0:10.0	We started up and we ain't going to stop.
0:12.1	Oh, I said like you.
0:13.9	I could not.
0:15.4	That's when they got wheels off.
0:21.0	Massey Asari is a theater kid.
0:26.1	She's not a kid anymore, although she does have such an excitement about her that I can see the 16-year-old
0:36.4	kid that wrote her own original jazz song to go perform it at a competition.
0:42.7	And I just, I'm so interested in this whole other side of music, Broadway, off Broadway.
0:53.9	And she has made a life out of that.
0:56.6	She is in Chicago now, a professor at Northwestern,
1:01.7	and she's teaching all sorts of stuff there,
1:04.1	musical theater history, musical theater performance.
1:08.1	But she's still very tied into the Broadway and off-Broadway world.
1:12.5	She's a lyricist, playwright, composer, obviously a great singer, but she's just this very
1:20.6	vibrant, positive, generous person.
1:27.4	And she was afraid that she didn't fit in to the cool, generous person.
1:34.7	And she was afraid that she didn't fit into the cool Wheels Off clubhouse, but oh my goodness,
1:36.1	does she ever?
1:42.3	She's the perfect guest for Wheels Off, and I'm so glad that I got to speak with her.
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