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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
It only ran 63 days in 2002, but THE LAST FIVE YEARS has lasted far longer than the last 11 years. Jason Robert Brown’s musical, which has had countless productions around the country, is now enjoying a first-class revival at Second Stage in New York City. It must be the production that Brown has always [...]
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Her name was Stella. She was a heavy-set girl who was a techie in the high school drama club for which I was an advisor. Between scenes of every show, you could see, if you looked carefully through the dimmed lights, Stella’s unmistakably large figure whisking around the stage. Despite her weight, Stella was faster [...]
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Tracy Turnblad travels from Baltimore to Jerusalem where Encore! Educational Theatre brings HAIRSPRAY to the stage to feature 32 Anglo-Israeli and Ethiopian-Israeli singers, dancers and actors to share the story of empowerment, freedom, confidence and equality. Director Eli Kaplan-Wildmann explains, “Our cast is made up of people who face these issues today in their own [...]
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As Jane Krakowski so eloquently sang in GRAND HOTEL, “I Want To Go To Hollywood!” She could, in fact, be speaking not just for herself but for many of today’s musical theater hits. Seeing the fantastic LES MISERABLES film this week inevitably got me thinking about musical theater and movies. For as long as Hollywood [...]
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Last summer, Des Moines Community Playhouse, a community theater in Des Moines, Iowa, did something they had never done before – a main stage production of a musical running in repertory with a full-blown kids’ musical. The shows? HAIRSPRAY and a pilot production of HAIRSPRAY, JR. (score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (SMASH), book [...]
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Combine picturesque mountains with superb theatrical performances, and what do you get? Summertime in Western Utah. This summer, consider journeying to the Tuacahn Center for the Arts and the Utah Shakespeare Festival for exciting upcoming events. Both are “destination theatres.” In other words, people go on vacations in the area, take advantage of the myriad [...]
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The crowning achievement of the art of musical theater is the ability to use song, dance and comedy to entertain, while conveying a moving and important message. Women’s History Month is the perfect time to spotlight three MTI Shows (two featuring women writers) – 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL, LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL and HAIRSPRAY [...]
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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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Welcome to the second 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. The following shows are some of the newest available for licensing, and are guaranteed to resonate [...]
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