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, NMT’s featured writer is the fantastic Georgia Stitt. Get to know her music below! And bonus, for New […]
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The first show I saw after moving into my new Manhattan apartment was Fly By Night at Playwrights Horizons. After a week of unpacking, job hunting and bill paying the ONLY thing I missed about my upstate NY backwoods hometown was the night sky and how bright the stars get when there are no other […]
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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’s featured writer is Rob Rokicki, whose adaptation of The Lightning Thief for TheatreworksUSA recently played off-Broadway and will begin a national […]
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I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I love the solo albums of Broadway stars. Solo albums fill my iTunes library and clog up my car’s CD changer. I belt out songs from solo albums in the shower. A world without Sutton Foster’s Wish and Orfeh’s What Do You Want from Me […]
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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, get to know the music of the great Jonathan Reid Gealt. He’s released two albums: Thirteen Stories Down and Here For […]
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Like a lot of theatre people I know, I grew up on the Rogers and Hammerstein classics my parents would play on movie nights: South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Carousel, not to mention Cinderella staring Brandi (anyone else still obsessed with that classic?). But occasionally thrown in among the R+H oldies was the other […]
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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: Carner and Gregor. Use the code CGSPOTLIGHT for 20% off all Carner and Gregor sheet music – today […]
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I’m doing it. I’m living the dream. In just seven weeks’ time, my new musical Fanatical will receive a professional workshop in London – the first step towards its premiere production. Yikes. The development of a new musical is an exhilarating and scary process for any writer. Moss Hart once said that you never really learn […]
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And we’re back for another week of audition songs! But before you read any more of this, please go over to Drew Gasparini’s powerful post. Mandatory reading for everyone this week. So this week is focused on The Witches of Eastwick – we received back-to-back requests for different folks in the show. I’m highly curious […]
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Welcome to What We’re Reading, in which we’ll share with you some of our favorite articles about theater and performance from all around the internet this week. “Performances Ponder Future of Scotland” by Steven McElroy for The New York Times explores how a significant number of productions at the recent Edinburgh Fringe festival tackled the upcoming Scotland […]
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If you’re female and a singer, chances are you probably have approximately 100 other female friends in the exact same boat. Musical theatre, am I right? In the spirit of this, I decided to dig through the NMT archives and present you with some of my favorite duets featuring female singers. These songs are about […]
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Songwriters make demos for lots of reasons: to share with collaborators, show producers, or simply to have for their own records. I love a beautifully complicated arrangement as much as anyone, but there’s something special about songs being performed by the people who wrote them. Without influence from orchestrations or staging or an actor’s interpretation, […]
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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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Hi everyone! This blog will be airing out some of my own dirty laundry. I may share some personal things about me that I am not always okay with admitting, but in my mind, especially when trying to get heard by other artists, honesty is what speaks to people. Honesty is brave. Honesty is real. […]
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Hi all, I’m really loving getting these letters and looking forwarding to answering your questions! I’ll note that it’s helpful to have your type (voice and character), the character(s) for which you want to be seen, and whether you need one or two songs. Keep ‘em coming! Today’s advice is to also consider the director […]
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This fall, The Green Room is thrilled to welcome a fantastic group of new bloggers to our team. For the rest of the week, you can get to know them through our Meet the Bloggers series. Name: Maria Duaime Robinson What do you do outside of blogging? I work in advanced energy policy, music direct […]
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