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WRITER SPOTLIGHT: Ryan Scott Oliver

This September, NMT is putting a spotlight on its writers. Each day, we’ll be featuring one writer or writing team’s recommended audition songs and audition tips – and sharing a discount code for their one-day-only Spotlight Sale! Today: Ryan Scott Oliver! Ryan’s new musical We Foxes just had its first reading at the York Theatre, and the show also […]

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SONG SPOTLIGHT: Crazytown

Hello there, Green Room readers! Happy to be back with “Song Spotlights” after a brief hiatus. Last time I was here, I spent a lot of time gushing about Natasha, Pierre… and my lingering fascination with War and Peace, and very little time on my usual shtick—that shtick being, Everything Old is New Again, or, […]

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Stroke By Stroke

I’m not sure when I first met Ryan Scott Oliver in person.  But the encounter that stays with me was at a band rehearsal for Prospect Theater Company’s Annual Gala last year.  One of Ryan’s songs from JASPER IN DEADLAND was on the bill as a preview of coming attractions, since plans for a Prospect […]

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Lyric Lens: “Leave Luanne” by Ryan Scott Oliver

A few nights ago, at a birthday party, I solicited suggestions from friends for what song I should feature in the next installment of Lyric Lens.  “Why don’t you do a post that looks more at the big picture of lyrics?” suggested one friend.  As much as I love thinking about the big picture, that’s […]

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NMT on NMT: #NMTWriters Pick Audition Songs

We asked #NMTWriters for audition song recommendations – specifically, one song that they wrote and one song that they didn’t write. Read on to find out their top picks!  KAIT KERRIGAN When She Smiles. I heard a girl sing this song of Lewis Flinn’s in a master class and it felt fresh and young and […]

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