During the summer of 2020, the composer and lyricist Madeline Myers spent hours at the piano in her Manhattan apartment as she struggled to write three songs for her new musical, Double Helix, about the British chemist Rosalind Franklin.The challenge wasn't strictly about marrying words to a score, but conveying the science of a crucial moment in the discovery of DNA's structure and making the songs entertaining.
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