WORKING is a down-to-earth yet elevating musical that features songs that are based on real interviews. In the musical, twenty-six workers, including a parking lot attendant, corporate executive, schoolteacher, gas man, housewife, fireman, ...
Now that Bring It On is finishing its extended run on Broadway, the time will soon come when you’ll be able to present it, too. It’s Music Theatre International’s newest acquisition.Because the musical deals with cheerleaders, high school ...
The Stories Behind MTI's 2012 New Releases
MISS SAIGON (SCHOOL EDITION), the LITTLE MERMAID (JR) and A LITTLE PRINCESS became the newest WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN after the LOVE STORY between BONNIE AND CLYDE turned them into TOXIC ...
Have you ever seen a new show on Broadway that you absolutely LOVED only to hear that a month later it has closed? All too often amazing shows have shorter lives than we may feel they deserve. The reality is, to succeed on Broadway a show has to ...
Let’s face it: most directors of professional or community productions of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee cast too old.They seem to ignore the fact that this competition is supposed to be for teens. Do they fear that bookwriter Rachel ...
You don’t need to wait one day more to join the licensing revolution, because now the full-length version of LES MISÉRABLES is available to license in North America for a limited time, for performances starting in June 2013 (some regional ...
I’m thrilled that Bring It On will soon be made available for licensing to theaters around the country. Though I was never a cheerleader myself (sports? what?), this show has a lot to cheer about. In case you haven't had a chance to see it on tour ...
“NBC’s ‘Smash’: Make A Musical”
Beaver Falls Area Middle School
Pittsburgh, PA
Reported by: Cynthia Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher
September 28, 2012
It's a given. Football is big in western PA, and ...
The following is a review of a production of FRECKLEFACE STRAWBERRY THE MUSICAL which took place in November at the Circa 21 Dinner Playhouse in Illinois written by Thom White for the River City Reader. Here's an excerpt:
The Circa '21 Dinner ...
Thirty-one years ago this week, Broadway saw the last of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG.Granted, the then-new 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical had a hard act to follow: SWEENEY TODD, the 1979 musical (or opera, if you insist) that most everyone agrees is the ...
