New Shows

Can’t get enough Twilight or True Blood?  MTI is here to satiate your thirst for vampires with the 2004 Broadway musical DRACULA, now fully available for licensing.  The show, with music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Civil War) and book and lyrics by the Tony Award winning team of Christopher Hampton and Don [...]

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As the new academic year begins, MTI is pleased to announce that 13 is fully available for licensing!  With a funny and honest book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn and an energetic pop rock score by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown (Parade, The Last Five Years), the musical explores 12-year-old Evan Goldman’s [...]

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Jennifer Kelly, Director of Theatre at Lemon Bay High School in Englewood, Florida shares how The Wedding Singer helped propel her students straight to a top spot on the mainstage at the 2009 International Thespians Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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MTI is proud to announce Elton John & Tim Rice’s AIDA School Edition is now available for licensing. AIDA is a two-act, rock/pop thru-sung operetta, with music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang. This contemporary musical is a modern adaptation of the [...]

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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE  is a hilarious peek into the world of competitive spelling. Rachel Sheinkin’s economical and brilliant book lends much to sketch comedy and improv, while William Finn’s score captures the quirky seriousness of the young competitors. But Sheinkin and Finn have also crafted an honest, touching look at why [...]

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Say the term “metatheatre,” and most people will think of Bertolt Brecht.  Brecht’s shows, such as The Threepenny Opera, were groundbreaking for their use of metatheatre to provide social commentary.  By having the characters in the play be aware that they’re characters in a play, metatheatre distances the audience, making them focus more on the [...]

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When writing your best friend’s eulogy, it’s only natural that you’d look to the past.  That’s exactly what successful author Thomas Weaver does in the recent Broadway musical, THE STORY OF MY LIFE.  But in his quest to find the perfect story to tell about his best friend Alvin, Thomas ends up reliving the stories [...]

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The Tony Award winning musical, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, is now available for licensing!  The William Finn/Rachel Sheinkin comedy opened on Broadway in the spring of 2005, where it delighted audiences, received critical acclaim, and earned three Drama Desks (Outstanding Book of a Musical, Outstanding Director of a Musical, and Outstanding Ensemble [...]

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There’s a groooovy new musical available for licensing that makes you want to shout!
Co-Conceived by Director Phillip George (Forbidden Broadway, Forbidden Hollywood) and Choreographer David Lowenstein (Whoop-Dee-Doo!, Revival of The Best Little Whore House in Texas), SHOUT! THE MOD MUSICAL had its Off-Broadway premiere at the Julia Miles Theatre in New York City followed [...]

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Let THE STORY OF MY LIFE become the talk of your town!
Music Theatre International is pleased to announce THE STORY OF MY LIFE (nominated for 4 Drama Desk Awards, including Best Musical) is now available for licensing. With music and lyrics by Neil Bartram, book by Brian Hill, and direction by Richard Maltby, [...]

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Let the con begin!
Here at the Marquee, we’re thrilled to announce that the incredibly funny and smart Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is now available to license through Music Theatre International. With music and lyrics by David Yazbek (The Full Monty) and a book by Jeffrey Lane (5 Emmys, 2 Peabodies and a Golden Globe award) and [...]

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MTI is pleased to announce that the award-winning, The Story of My Life is the newest addition to our extensive catalog.  Coinciding with this acquisition is the release of the Original Broadway Cast Album this Tuesday.  Actors Malcolm Gets and Will Chase, along with authors Neil Bartram and Brian Hill (plus Broadway Director and MTI [...]

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“A VALENTINE” TO ACTORS

THE GLORIOUS ONES, based on the novel by noted author Francine Prose, was hailed by the New York Times as “a valentine to the actor’s life–joyfully naughty, with buoyant music by Stephen Flaherty and a bawdy book by Lynn Ahrens.”
Both slapstick and serious, the musical follows a traveling band of seven actors [...]

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Alt-Rock star and composer of Spring Awakening is back with a new album of songs intended for a new musical, Whisper House.
The album has so far gotten some very nice reviews, and a stage production is in the works for later this year. We’ve been enjoying the album here at the MTI Offices, and look [...]

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