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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
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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The following article is the first in a series by SHOUT! THE MOD MUSICAL Producer, Victoria Lang. In this piece, Victoria shares some helpful ways to make SHOUT! a commercial and artistic success in your theatre. A Groovy Way to Cut Costs and Maximize Profits Many small theatres, colleges and high schools that have seen [...]
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It can be challenging to recreate the magic of a beloved movie musical on stage, but the new version of SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS has found the right formula for balancing artistic success and box office appeal for many regional theatres across the country and internationally. Now available in a new version, updated in [...]
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Two MTI Shows Receive Top Honors from The Wall Street Journal in List of 2010′s Best Theatrical Productions Anywhere! Throughout 2010, The Wall Street Journal ‘s drama critic Terry Teachout crisscrossed America in search of memorable, innovative theater from Broadway and beyond. Teachout saw countless new and classic works performed by professional companies throughout the [...]
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The Plaids have been delighting audiences for over a decade, proving that friendship, dedication, and charming renditions of 1950s standards can transcend even death. But now, Francis, Sparky, Jinx, and Smudge won’t have to carry out their posthumous performance on their own. In THE SOUND OF PLAID: THE NEW GLEE CLUB VERSION OF FOREVER PLAID [...]
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Music by Elton John Lyrics by Tim Rice Book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang. AIDA: SCHOOL EDITION is “a contemporary musical take on a grand classic tale of the timeless bond between an enslaved Nubian princess and an Egyptian soldier.” This story of forbidden love between two people from very separate [...]
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