It’s a good time for Shakespeare adaptations. Correction: It’s always been a good time for Shakespeare adaptations. West Side Story! Ten Things I Hate About You! Both the movie and the short-lived ABC Family television series! (Shut up, I loved the short-lived ABC Family television series.) Many of Shakespeare’s plays themselves were adaptations and retellings […]
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October is the pinnacle of all things fall. Leaves burn crimson and gold while the ubiquitous #PSL floods Instagram accounts. It’s a glorious month for sweaters, Halloween, and Christmas album releases. Cue the groans. A handful of singers have holiday albums debuting in October. These early album releases may be the musical equivalent of the […]
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The other day I was walking around campus listening to The Last Five Years— as per usual—my school is built on hills so how could I pass up the opportunity to listen to “Climbing Uphill” as I walk to class? “Climb Every Mountain” is often too intense to listen to at 9AM and “I Miss […]
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If you’re female and a singer, chances are you probably have approximately 100 other female friends in the exact same boat. Musical theatre, am I right? In the spirit of this, I decided to dig through the NMT archives and present you with some of my favorite duets featuring female singers. These songs are about […]
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Musical theater is full of great love stories. It’s a great genre for that because with big feelings come big voices and epic high notes. But big feelings aren’t exclusively reserved for soulmates, right? Or, to put it another way, there’s more than one kind of love. These songs are for everyone who wants to […]
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Happy Independence Day, America! All across the USA, people are preparing for barbecues and fireworks, unless you’re also in the Hurricane Arthur zone in which case, stay safe. In my book, there’s no better way to celebrate any holiday than to do so with musical theater. Behold: NMT’s 4th of July playlist! (Special thanks to Margaret for […]
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Hey all! Last time you heard from me, we took a look at why you need to get the rights to copyrighted source material when writing a musical. But what if you’re dying to adapt something but can’t deal with copyright? Well, you’re in luck! There are so many great stories out there in the […]
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Since my last NMT post about the ins and outs of a good musical book, I’ve been thinking… where are the articles about dream pairings of composers/lyricists and amazing playwrights/book writers? After all, music and lyrics are only two-thirds of the puzzle. Can’t think of any? Neither can I… So let’s remedy that. Below, you’ll […]
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Here at NewMusicalTheatre.com, we’re all brimming with excitement over the Tony Awards this Sunday evening. We’ll be live-tweeting with the hashtag #NMTonys (join us!). To tide you over for the next few days, we put together this video playlist of songs by #NMTWriters performed by 2014 Tony Nominees. Whether you need background music while you […]
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Here we are. Back together again, talking about musical theatre… Last time, if you remember, we took a look at what makes a well written song cycle – a fun little animal of a musical piece that’s assembled with only music and lyrics. But now, I’d like to explore something different: the book musical. More […]
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A book is overrated in a musical… Now anyone who knows me (Nick Luckenbaugh, one of your new NMT bloggers) knows that I don’t think that’s true. In fact, I don’t think enough emphasis is put on a musical’s book these days. But… today I want to talk about something for which no book exists: […]
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I’ve never been in a musical… unless you count my 8th grade stint in Teens in Tinseltown (it’s real, look it up). I grew up playing guitar and listening to rock, pop, folk, soul, and jazz. Don’t get me wrong, I saw a good number of shows and listened to the Rent cast album 5-bajllion […]
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Please climb aboard the nearest time machine and travel back to April 29, 1962. When you arrive, you find out that you’re throwing a dinner party for prominent musical theater composers of the day. It’s your job to assemble the guest list. Who will you invite? Well, you’re in for a great party. The […]
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Being into musical theatre isn’t all that different from being into comic books. Everyone has their favorite Green Lantern (John Stewart) or Mama Rose (Patti LuPone), there’s always something to nitpick when the movies come out, epic costumes are crucial to your daily survival, and normal people never know what you’re talking about. I can’t […]
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I’ve noticed a sudden influx of blog posts and articles in which the authors of said pieces openly explain why they don’t tip their servers. Since this is something that affects our little music and theatre community, as many of us are, were, and will be servers, hosts, bartenders, or whatever pays for what our […]
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Go to your local music store (or to Amazon.com and light a mournful candle for Colony Records as a silent tear rolls down your cheek) and check out the sheet music section. Overwhelming, right? So many options, and no idea where to begin! Lucky for you, you can find there the musical theatre anthology books, […]
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