Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.