Most productions begin with script.
However, this is not entirely true for Heathcliff . This musical began with an idea, a long-held ambition, which Cliff had nurtured for some 40 years. He tried to talk me out of this at first. I could understand his being a bit cagey about it because he was right in insisting that the story had never been very successfully adapted. Nevertheless, this idea of staging a musical based on Wuthring Heights later evolved into a written script.