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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
The “Choosing Your High School’s Musical” series is a series of blog posts designed to introduce you to shows that we know are fantastic in a high school setting. Of course, it’s up to you to determine if the shows are best-suited to your community, so make sure to order a perusal copy of the [...]
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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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Kenosha, Wisconsin is sending the theatre students of Bradford High and Tremper High to EdTA’s Thespian Festival next week to perform their selected main-stage productions of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Working. The International Thespian Festival, an annual conference to celebrate the work of high school theatre troupes across the country, is [...]
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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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Stephen Schwartz has been working lately … on Working. Our team caught up with the composer and director Gordon Greenberg in San Diego. The entire show has been reworked for a cast of 6, orchestrations updated, new roles (health care workers, telephone support) created, two new songs by Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The [...]
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