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“Terrifically involving and entertaining … a riveting story for the stage.” —Variety Don’t miss the New York premiere of the first opera by musical theater legend Stephen Schwartz. The prodigious Oscar and Grammy Award-winning composer has written the scores to hit shows GODSPELL, PIPPIN, WORKING and WICKED, which continues to break Broadway attendance records and [...]
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Exciting news! If you’ve ever had a question about a Stephen Schwartz show, we bet we’ve got your answer! Recently, a forum archive was added to the official Stephen Schwartz website — it includes answers to questions submitted to Stephen over the years about each of his shows. Not only is the page conveniently organized, [...]
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What is greatness and how does one bec0me great? In the musical PIPPIN, written by Stephen Schwartz (GODSPELL, WICKED) and Roger O. Hirson, the title character and heir to the throne is determined to become “great”. But Pippin soon finds that the path to “greatness” is intertwined with the road to self-discovery. Will Pippin’s greatness [...]
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This year’s Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska features more than fifty productions presented by schools from throughout North America and abroad. A select few have been chosen as Main Stage presentations at the Festival. The select group includes five shows from the Music Theatre International catalog: URINETOWN, PIPPIN, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, HOW TO SUCCEED IN [...]
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In October of 2003, a show opened that would quickly become one of the biggest phenomena Broadway has ever seen. The musical WICKED, an alternative look at L. Frank Baum’s THE WIZARD OF OZ, struck a chord in theatregoers across the country. Teenage and college-age girls were particularly drawn to the complex relationship between Elphaba, [...]
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Everyone knows that theatre requires a massive amount of hard work and preparation. But if the cast and crew do their job right, the performance seems effortless – as though the actors pull their lines out of the air and the sets and props operate on their own, driven by the needs of the story. [...]
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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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