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WRITER SPOTLIGHT: Zoe Sarnak

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, we present a feature on Zoe Sarnak. Recently, Zoe was part of the Fresh Pens concert at the Highline […]

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How To Write This Musical, Part 2: When I Am Finished

“When will you make an end?” These are the memorable words from the 1965 movie The Agony and the Ecstasy. They are the words of a beleaguered Pope Julius II – Rex Harrison, taking time off from haranguing Eliza Doolittle to harangue the renaissance artist Michelangelo (played by Charlton Heston) into completing his famous frescos […]

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WRITER SPOTLIGHT: Nick Blaemire

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, the spotlight belongs to Nick Blaemire. Recently, Nick’s new musical A LITTLE MORE ALIVE played at Kansas City Rep, […]

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Top 10 New Musical Theatre Duets for Men

Since my first post for the Green Room was all about duets for the ladies, it only seemed fair to flip the coin this week and round up the best-of-the-best male duets. What makes this collection of songs unique is the wide dramatic range it covers. Some songs are heartwarming, some heartbreaking, and others fantastically […]

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WRITER SPOTLIGHT: Timothy Huang

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, we’re excited to feature the music of Timothy Huang. In September alone, Timothy has been featured in two different […]

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MT in the City: Empire State of Mind

For as long as I can remember, New York City has taken on a larger than life, magical and mysterious aura in my mind. People from all over the world, including myself, flock to this amazing city and leave inspired. I think of it as a place where people go to pursue their dreams, no […]

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WRITER SPOTLIGHT: Drew Gasparini

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, the spotlight is Drew Gasparini‘s. Drew recently produced a music video of his song “High Life” (watch the […]

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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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WRITER SPOTLIGHT: Alexander Sage Oyen

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, it’s Alexander Sage Oyen‘s turn in the spotlight. This past weekend, Alex won the The ASCAP Foundation Lucille and Jack […]

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Giving/Growing/Verbally Throwing Up

I’ve tried to write a blog for NewMusicalTheatre.Com about four times now. The concept of jotting down my thoughts in an organized and public manner intrigues me, but every time I start I always write a paragraph and give up. Hannah Ehrenberg, who runs the blog, probably thinks I’m a flake and tells everyone behind my […]

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WRITER SPOTLIGHT: Will Van Dyke

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, we’re featuring the music of Will Van Dyke. New York City, don’t miss Will’s upcoming 54 Below show on […]

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Maria Solves Your Problems: Back-to-School Audition Tips

This week we’re taking a quick break from letters to focus on some tips for auditioning. It’s back to school time, so I’m in the mood for sharpened #2 pencils, sweaters, and lectures. Below, I’m going to point out some areas that will make you endear yourself to the accompanist/music director. DO: Put your music […]

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WRITER SPOTLIGHT: Adam Gwon

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! First up the brilliant Adam Gwon. Check out the audition songs Adam recommends, plus a bonus featured performance, below!  TODAY, […]

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Beyond Broadway: The Middle of Somewhere

“I don’t like to think of Nebraska as the middle of nowhere,” she says with a laugh. Alisa Belflower is speaking to me from Lincoln, Nebraska. And if you were to draw a map of the musical theater world, it would be easy to imagine Lincoln as the middle-est nowhere possible. If musicals are to […]

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WRITER SPOTLIGHT: Scott Evan Davis

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, Scott Evan Davis has the spotlight. If you’re in the NYC area, check out Scott’s 54 Below […]

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New Musical Theatre, New Audiences

Hello New Musical Theatre Green Room readers! My name is Nikki Shah, and I am one of the new bloggers for this fall. I am incredibly excited to be writing about one of my passions, and I’d like to start off by introducing myself and how I got to love new musical theatre. One night, […]

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