Romance, revelry and enchanting music ignite in this contemporary yet lovingly faithful musical adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy. Using the original text, Love's Labour's Lost reunites Obie Award winner Michael Friedman (Bloody Bloody Andrew ...
Next up in our series highlighting MTI Shows In Literature is DESSA ROSE. The Shows in Literature series features musicals based on classic works – including novels, plays and children’s books.
Based on Shirley Anne Williams’ novel of the ...
In continuing with a series we’ve been doing that highlights MTI shows which are based on classic literature – including novels, plays and children’s books – today we’re featuring LUCKY STIFF.
LUCKY STIFF was the now famous writing team ...
For the past few months I’ve been writing the MTI Shows In Literature Series. Throughout the posts, I’ve tried to highlight places where the featured musicals navigate common difficulties of adaptation. This post is part 1 in a 2 part series ...
Read the Book, Perform the Musical...
It has been fifty years—and millions of readers—since the world was first introduced to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond with Tock, the Humbug, and the captive princesses Rhyme and Reason. ...
Our next piece for the MTI Shows In Literature series is the musical JUST SO. MTI Shows In Literature highlights shows from the MTI catalogue based on classic literature – including novels, short stories and childrens' books. Check back each week ...
Though musical theater is a diverse medium, one of the things that many shows have in common is that they're adapted from stories told in other forms. Whether drawing from novels, plays, poems or children’s stories, the MTI collection has a ...
Adapted from Doris Betts’ short story The Ugliest Pilgrim, first published in 1973, VIOLET has book and lyrics by Brian Crawley and music by Jeanine Tesori. Set in 1964, the story follows the strong-willed protagonist (Violet) on her journey North ...
The ANNE OF GREEN GABLES musical has music by Nancy Ford and book and lyrics by Gretchen Cryer. The musical is based on the Lucy Maud Montgomery novel that was first published in 1908. Set in the early twentieth century, the story follows ...
SPRING AWAKENING is a musical based on Frank Wedekind’s 1891 expressionist play of the same name. Though bookwriter/lyricist Steven Sater and composer Duncan Sheik are fairly faithful to the original story, this is definitely an adaptation with a ...
