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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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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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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I’m certainly not suggesting you have to look like Ulla Inga tor Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen Hallen Svaden Swanson (Bloom) to sing any of these songs, though surely that’d be swell. But let’s face it: there’s a sad dearth of satisfyingly rounded female roles out there as it is, and few of them get to […]
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In honor of the many end-of-year round-ups, we bring you the NMT Green Room’s most popular posts of 2013! How many have you read? Let’s Hear It For The Girls, Part One by Anonymous The Sound Of Music by Georgia Stitt What The Hell Are You Singing?! No… Seriously. by Michael Patrick Walker #NMTvotw: Riffs by Andrea Wilhelm […]
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Pop quiz: name your top five new musical theatre composers. How many are women? If you’re me, maybe one half of a team. And it’s not that female writers aren’t out there, because they are. And it’s not even that they’re less talented, because give me five more seconds to think about it and I […]
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I met a man without a dollar to his name, who had no traits of any value but his smile. I met a man who had no yearn or claim to fame, who was content to let life pass him for a while. He kissed me right here, and he said: He’s savin’ it for […]
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Don’t get me wrong, I love me a love song. But after one too many vocal coachings, concert plannings, and/or friends in need of new book options that ended up with an endless parade of one sad long break-up song after another, I decided to make an active effort to seek out some more varied […]
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