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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
Welcome to the fourth blog post in our “Choosing Your High School’s Musical” series. Our newest series of blog posts is designed to introduce you to some of our shows that we know work in a high school setting. Of course, it’s up to you to determine if the shows are best-suited to your community, [...]
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Sometimes being faithful to the score of an MTI musical requires unique, signature keyboard/synthesizer patches integral to the orchestration. The challenge for musical directors is when these authentic sounds are difficult to find and even more difficult to re-produce correctly. That’s why we created MTI’s Keyboard Patch SolutionsTM – an easy to use resource designed [...]
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MTI CEO Freddie Gershon is once again featured on The Huffington Post, and this time, he’s channeling the power of the arts in our ever-changing society. The impact the arts have on our children and our communities– from improved standardized testing scores to teaching the life lessons of resilience and tenacity– cannot be overstated, and [...]
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Congratulations to our friends at Stagedoor Manor for their awesome feature on CBS Sunday Morning! The segment aired on the show’s August 8 Broadcast. Stagedoor, located in New York’s Catskill Mountains, is a summer training camp for the Broadway stars of tomorrow, and has a very impressive alumni list, including Natalie Portman, Jon Cryer, Zach [...]
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Music Theatre International’s CEO, Freddie Gershon recently wrote a piece for The Huffington Post about younger performers keeping the art of musical theatre and performance alive and well. He cites the influence of shows like Glee and American Idol, as well as the perennial favorite, Disney’s High School Musical (which MTI licenses as a stage [...]
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This Vanity Fair article examines how the new hit TV show GLEE has built on the legacy and success of DISNEY’S HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. Like HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, GLEE challenges conventional high school stereotypes through song and dance – but in a style and tone all its own. GLEE recently won a Golden Globe for [...]
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Since its formation in the 1950′s, MTI has been, and continues to be an ambassador for the American Musical at home and abroad. While the majority of MTI’s licensing occurs within the United States, we have also licensed shows in over 60 countries across the world. Each new overseas production is a chance to view [...]
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True Life: Camp’d Out- I’m Going to Performing Arts Camp MTV takes its popular documentary series, True Life: Camp’d Out, to the Western Catskills of New York to visit the highly distinguished summer camp, French Woods. Shooting for nine weeks of the summer camp session in 2008, MTV’s True Life crew follows the lives [...]
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Get ready to rock the ice at Disney’s High School Musical: The Ice Tour! Click on your city name for special offers for Rapid City, Champaign, Moline, Council Bluffs Let’s go, Wildcats! It’s time for Disney’s High School Musical: The Ice Tour, featuring a cast of world class skaters in the one and only live celebration [...]
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It’s the Start of Something New: Class is back in session and the gang at East High will never be the same again thanks to this newly-released Broadway, Jr. edition of the musical sensation that’s sweeping the nation. Now Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Ryan and the rest of the Wildcats can bring their special brand of [...]
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