Putting singing into a script

How should I do so? They're original songs for a play I'm writing, but how should I format it? I was thinking about having it normal, you know, centered and everything, but with dialogue "Being written/Like this/When a verse is over/Also using actual quotation marks/"

General convention, for some reason, is for sung content to be in all-caps. Also, convention is not the "first line/second line/third line" format, it's the

• FIRST LINE
• SECOND LINE
• THIRD LINE

edited 20th Jan '12 10:37:06 PM by PDown

That's the way I remember it done when I did script-writing in high school drama - all caps, centred, new line for each ... line.

So like...?:

edited 20th Jan '12 11:37:54 PM by tendollarlameo

Well, the scripts I saw never had movements mixed in with the song lyrics. Just blocks of verses.

Alright, so leave choreography up to a choreographer. I might put directions in if I want them to do something important, though.

Thanks for helping me format!

Yeah, that sounds about right. No problem

I personally now want to see Bob Hope singing "Poker Face". James Cameron, make it happen!

Checked in the script for the production of the music man I was in in middle school, and if its formatting for such things is standard, your earlier example of Bob Hope singing poker face would be formatted like so:

edit: If a page starts with the same character singing as the last page ended with, the character's name is still written at the top of the page.

edited 22nd Jan '12 7:03:41 PM by setnakhte