We’ve been making some initial recordings of some of the songs.  Garageband on the iMac will do for now.  We’ve come up with a really cool concept for the arrangements.  Although the songs themselves are ‘popular’ in feel (they are like lullabies, or ballads, or jaunty pop songs), we’re using lutes and harpsichords here and there to give them a little Elizabethan feel.  It’s working nicely.  Also, instruments are chosen to represent not only the mood of the song, but also the ‘character’ of the character singing – fanfare trumpets for Henry V, a little music box sound for little Perdita (from The Winter’s Tale), a cello for Juliet…