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Welcome to #musicalBFFs, a series of exclusive video interviews between NMT Writers and some of their musical best friends! Today, Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham (I Love You Because, Next Thing You Know) interview their good friend and frequent collaborator Farah Alvin (It Shoulda Been You, The Marvelous Wonderettes). Watch the video and then head over to NMT for a special […]

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This might be a bit weird, but when I’m at college and I introduce myself, one of the first things I mention is that I’m involved in theatre. I start listing off the shows I’ve acted in, the sets I’ve helped build, the marketing strategies that I’ve helped implement. And people automatically assume that I’m a […]

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It’s back to school season and The Green Room is looking out for you. All this month, the NMT Countdown series is bringing you a guide to the best-selling songs on NMT from the last year. Are you planning a cabaret and looking for the perfect stand-alone song? Are you a soprano looking for audition […]

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How many times have you heard the warning from mentors, teachers, parents and even bloggers, “if you can see yourself doing anything else other than theatre, do that”? I know I heard it over and over growing up. It was never out of a place of judgment or doubting my talent, but simply alerting me […]

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Welcome to #musicalBFFs, a series of exclusive video interviews between NMT Writers and some of their musical best friends! Today, Adam Gwon (Ordinary Days, The Boy Detective Fails, Bernice Bobs Her Hair) interviews his friend and longtime collaborator Kate Wetherhead (Submissions Only, the Jack and Louisa book series, Ordinary Days). Watch the video and then head over […]

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Earlier this summer I had the pleasure of seeing Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron’s Fun Home. The musical memory play (adapted from Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel memoir) had me captivated. It was an absolutely cathartic experience, and my eyes were still wet with tears long after the cast had taken their bows. As I sat […]

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After weeks of sunshine, the end of summer is near. This is the point in the year where schools start up again and students depart for college. Pumpkin flavors begin to fill up menus and sweaters start to show up in people’s wardrobes. For some, the shifting of the seasons also symbolizes new beginnings and […]

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Welcome to #musicalBFFs, a series of exclusive video interviews between NMT Writers and some of their musical best friends! First up: Drew Gasparini (Make Me Bad; Crazy, Just Like Me) interviews his friend, collaborator, and fellow (M)oron Alex Brightman (School of Rock, Matilda, 35MM). Watch the video, read the transcript, and check out Alex’s special performance of one of […]

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The best theatre is live theatre. No matter what genre the performance is, there’s something special about breathing the same air as the performers who are making something that can only be fully enjoyed in that moment. The one downside to that is that there’s no way to be at every show in history, even […]

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In today’s society, keeping in touch with Broadway has never been easier. You can tweet the actors directly. You can use websites like Playbill Vault and Wikipedia to learn about shows without having seen them. You can even see what life is like backstage thanks to Instagram and video blogs. With this technological revelation, though, […]

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Earlier this month, Benedict Cumberbatch made news in London by asking his fans who had come to see him in Hamlet to record a message using their cellphones. He urged fans to stop trying to record live performances. “It’s mortifying and there is nothing less supportive or enjoyable as an actor onstage experiencing that,” said […]

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Rave reviews and articles about Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton agree that it is a groundbreaking show. One of the groundbreaking elements of Hamilton is a diverse cast portraying the Founding Fathers. I’ve noticed that this has sparked a discussion about the need for diversity in musical theatre. Diversity is important to make musical theatre connect with […]

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This summer, I went back to my roots in a way. I went back to the summer camp I had attended in 2011, while I was preparing for college auditions. US Performing Arts runs a camp at UCLA and I was there for a full month when I was a camper, learning from some of […]

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Over the course of the first three parts of this series, new musical theatre writers have offered advice on everything from finding directors to getting your songs sung and into voices as soon as possible. Sometimes the SECOND step is the hardest. Too many musicals collect dust after a first reading – so I asked […]

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So you just discovered how wonderful, super-fantastic musical theatre is. Or maybe you’ve always liked musicals but you haven’t loved them until now. We’ve all been there. You’re starting the journey of becoming a Musical Theatre Fangirl or Fanboy. But where do you start? How can you take in all of the glorious musical theatre […]

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Gosh, It feels like summer has come and gone in the blink of an Eye-dele Dazeem. It’s only August, and it’s already happening. I can’t finish one God-Dammit-Janet show on Hulu without seeing those Back-to-School-Target ads that’s I can’t x out of: So here’s the T with me: I wrapped up another summer accompanying those badass […]

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