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Musical Theater News, Production Tips, New Musicals and More on The MTI Marquee Blog
Musical Theatre News and information for schools, community and professional theaters
QUILT: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION is a musical based on stories for, from and about the NAMES PROJECT AIDS memorial quilt. The book is by Jim Morgan, Merle Hubbard and John Schak, with music by Michael Stockler and lyrics by Jim Morgan. The piece has been produced many times regionally. The first time was in 1992 [...]
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A great way to give a 1960s history lesson that students are sure to remember is with a High School production of SHOUT! Although not every event of the decade is covered on stage, SHOUT! is a great impetus to create a syllabus for the period from 1962 to 1970. Students can gain a greater [...]
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RAGTIME – (written by the award-winning composer/lyricist team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens and noted playwright Terrence McNally and based on E.L. Doctorow’s distinguished novel), intertwines the stories of three extraordinary families, as they confront history’s timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, and what it means to live [...]
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If your theatre is looking for a show that showcases the thrills and chills of the Halloween season, look no further than these 10 MTI titles. Whether you’re following the exploits of a blood-sucking vampire (or plant), losing your direction in a madcap fairy tale, or haunting a country rodeo, each of these shows is [...]
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The weather outside’s not frightful (yet), but now is the perfect time to choose your show for the upcoming holiday season. One of our favorites is the perennial Christmas classic, MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET, THE MUSICAL – based on the beloved Academy Award-winning 1947 film. This charming tuner previously titled, “It’s Beginning to Look A [...]
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Last summer Playbill.com reported an exciting new twist on one of MTI’s shows – an all-female cast of 1776! (Read the article here, and the original Marquee blog post about it here). In the article, Keith Edwards, son of the show’s composer/lyricist, the late Sherman Edwards, remarked that he hoped that that concert reading production [...]
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The Union Jack dresses clearly make a great finale in SHOUT! So we’ve put those dresses to work in marketing the show since they are such attention-grabbers off stage as well as on. Depending on the configuration of your theatre, if there’s time after the curtain call, have the cast run around into the lobby [...]
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Insanity. Romance. Secrets. These are the words that might come to mind while taking a walk through the ethereal English moors of a 5-time Tony nominated Broadway musical, JANE EYRE. This musical adaptation of the 19th century novel, by the same name, features the work of composer/lyricist Paul Gordon and book-writer/lyricist John Caird (CANDIDE; CHILDREN [...]
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The following feature about a new approach to staging 1776 was written specifically for the MTI Marquee by the renowned theatre critic, Peter Filichia. Last summer, Peter saw an inspiring ALL-FEMALE, concert-version of the show performed by Kansas City’s Musical Theater Heritage. Since not every organization has the resources (24 male actors!), nor the budget [...]
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How often have you looked at your daunting season line-up and felt overwhelmed at your “To Do List”? Don’t you just love it when you can point to one of those shows and say: “Oh, that’s the easy one.” Well, these days, many Artistic Directors are telling me that SHOUT! is their “easy one” due [...]
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