Meditations on Dialog with musical underscoring

As you might have gathered from listening to this music, each character seems to have a musical theme, or motif, that recurs when they are onstage.  It is important, therefore, to listen carefully to underscoring when delivering dialog.  We will rehearse this as best we can, but you will find that certain characters speak over a certain musical theme; it's important that the next speaker wait to speak until their musical motif is introduced.   This sounds more complicated than it is...just remember that the goal is not to see who can say their lines the fastest, but to make sense of the story.  Remember that each character is always in a duet with the musical underscoring - it's a partnership.  If we all pay attention to that, we'll have a great time and a great show!  ???s about this.  Ask me.