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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
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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Blonde Bombshell! LEGALLY BLONDE, playing in London’s West End was one of the big winners at the 2011 Olivier Awards in London. Everyone’s favorite blonde took home three prizes including best new musical and best actress for Sheridan Smith. Watch BBC News Highlights of the Telecast. Watch an Interview with Actress Sheridan Smith. Sondheim Honored [...]
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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 third 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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MTI CEO Freddie Gershon, and wife Myrna, have partnered with the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC to create and fund a grant program to reward outstanding teachers in honor of their friend, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. According to the Washington Examiner, “The Kennedy Center-Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards announced Tuesday will award $10,000 grants [...]
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The New York Times recently featured a review of a London production of “Into the Woods” that took the show’s setting quite seriously! The new Open Air Theatre production takes place with London’s Regent Park as its background and has received many rave reviews. The show is directed by Timothy Sheader, and is set to [...]
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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 of [...]
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