I was once told that in this business, “everyone and their brother has written a musical.” I have learned over the years that there is more truth to this that you would imagine. There is no shortage of new musical writers. However, the vast majority of completed work will never see the light of day. […]
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Summer tends to be a time when I do A LOT of writing as well as a LOT of reading, listening, and viewing. I am a firm believer that as a writer, I am influenced (whether I like it or not) by the stuff I consume. If the old adage “you are what you eat” […]
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Anyone who has written for the stage will tell you that finding collaborators is like dating. The writing relationship is a delicate one and requires some back and forth to see if it’s a good fit. The social media age has made this somewhat easier in terms of bridging the geographical gap, but the process […]
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One of the great thrills of working in this business for me is discovering new writers. It’s like listening the future of the art form in a very real way. I’ve been blessed to work with so many of the NMT folks in one way or another, but I’m only a recent follower of the […]
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Every year I get more and more excited about the new musicals that populate the primary Broadway scene. In a way – for all of us involved in developing and writing new musicals – it as if a new original musical on the main street feels like a small personal win as well. The door […]
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Everyone does an end-of-year list, right? Some “top 10” or “best of”- as part of our obsession with ranking things chronologically. Look – I’m not judging. I like a good top 10 list as much as the next guy! As this will be my final NMT post for 2014, I wanted to take some time […]
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There are milestone shows in musical theater that we all mark as definitive. Give or take a show or two, most will tell you that certain shows land on that list. Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Fiddler On The Roof, Gypsy, West Side Story, A Chorus Line, Company, Rent and In The Heights are pretty safe bets. […]
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I remember the first time I heard Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner rip through “Who Will Love Me As I Am.” When I finally took a breath, I wanted to find out all I could. At the time, I didn’t know a thing about Side Show, the 1997 musical from which the song originated, but […]
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Many of us who have come to the piano as a primary instrument did so in a variety of ways. Some have been taking dedicated lessons since age 5; others have never taken a single one. Some were classically trained and others by ear. One thing we all learned at some point is that being […]
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In my past few posts, I’ve been offering some general tips to making the relationship between new musical theatre writers and regional theatres really strong and useful for everyone involved. We need to encourage these partnerships. In that light, I wanted to throw the proverbial spotlight on one such theatre that did just that and […]
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When I was around 13-years old, my Dad would regularly stop at a record store on his way home from work and pick up an LP that happened to be on sale that week. By on sale, I mean $1 or less. This WAS my Dad – always willing to try new things – experience […]
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(To begin this week, if you have not read the most recent article by Drew Gasparini and an archived favorite post by Georgia Stitt, do yourself a favor and read them – absorb them. There may be no more important message for new writers, theatre-goers, and artists of all types than these two pieces. They […]
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As a very young theatre artist/director/librettist-lyricist, I received the best piece of advice from a wonderful mentor. The problem was, at 20 years old, I didn’t yet know how profound this advice would be. Some history is necessary here. I had just written my first musical to moderate success and was launching a new theater […]
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