I’ve talked quite a bit in this series about contemporary musical theatre’s unreached pop crossover potential. While our Top-40 dreams remain for the most part unrealized, I do forget that we have hits within our own community. Recital standards like “Taylor the Latte Boy” and “Stars and the Moon” come to mind. Georgia Stitt’s “Not […]
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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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I explain in the very first #NMTvotw post about how there are people who become famous by putting themselves out there on the internet. And one person I look to for this in that post is Alexander Sage Oyen. ASO got his big break by posting a video on Scott Alan’s I’m a Star contest, […]
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While I could go on and on about the wonderful intricacies of a Kerrigan-Lowdermilk’s music, I could just as easily launch into a whole verbal thesis on a Scott Alan piece. For now, I’ll spare you the book report and simply put it this way: his music has the ability to melt this cold, dead […]
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For this installment of Lyric Lens, I knew I wanted to examine the way that Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk capture the voices of children in their writing. Of course, there are many great songs for kid characters in their show Henry and Mudge. The one most people probably know best is “My Party Dress,” […]
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This weekend I was lucky enough to see the London premiere of Frank Wildhorn’s 2009 musical Bonnie & Clyde in an inventive production by the musical theatre students at Arts Ed – one of London’s top drama schools. Despite holding amateur rights, the production was as professional as many fringe musicals, thanks in the main to […]
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There is always talk of the icons of musical theatre, particularly dealing with the writers. These are the ones we constantly refer to, the ones we worship as the gods of creating what American musical theatre is now, generally those who came to prominence during what is regarded as Broadway’s “Golden Age,” from “Show Boat” […]
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I’m certainly not suggesting you have to look like Ulla Inga tor Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen Hallen Svaden Swanson (Bloom) to sing any of these songs, though surely that’d be swell. But let’s face it: there’s a sad dearth of satisfyingly rounded female roles out there as it is, and few of them get to […]
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It can be easy for us to look at certain musicals from the past and claim them to be groundbreaking, revolutionary, or just plain great. But trying to put ourselves in the mindset as those who were in the audience when these shows opened is a different story. One of my all time favorite moments […]
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In this series of blog posts, I’m having conversations with people who are all involved in different facets of creating new musicals. This week, I talked with Kevin Moore, the Producing Artistic Director of the Human Race Theatre in Dayton, Ohio. I have worked with Kevin many times, and have always appreciated his forthright approach […]
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Let me start off by saying I am white. If you think you’re “Colorblind,” that’s a story for another day, but I promise that my whiteness is relevant to this discussion. When I set out to write The Girls on the Go, I knew I wanted to tackle the ways in which musical theatre needs […]
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Musical theatre, from an outsider’s perspective, tends to get flack for not being “serious” art. And certainly in the pre-Okalahoma! heyday, excepting the occasional Showboat, musical theatre was dramatically simplistic and rather style over substance. Similarly, comedy as an art form has also tended to suffer when paired against heavy drama, so a musical comedy […]
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I’ve heard it more times than one would expect. Someone asks an actor, or producer, or director, or especially a writer of musical theater what their favorite musicals are, or what they recommend on Broadway, and the theater professional says something to the effect of “it’s funny, I do musical theater, but I don’t really […]
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First and foremost, I want to point out our #NMTvotw: This is Kelsey Mielle singing Sixteen Bars by Peter Mills. Kelsey sings beautifully and follows all of our current #NMTvotw tips. However, the song she’s singing brings me to my current tip: how to do a 16 bar cut. 16 bar cuts need to be […]
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NewMusicalTheatre.com recently sat down with Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham, writers of I Love You Because, to talk about their newest show, Next Thing You Know. Here’s an inside look at the show, its development, and Ryan and Joshua’s writing process: For those not familiar with Next Thing You Know, how would you describe the show? “Next Thing […]
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I have spent a few months working for a licensed ticketing agency located in Midtown Manhattan. Over the course of those three months I spoke to hundreds of tourists on the streets of New York who were looking to purchase tickets for Broadway shows, Off-Broadway shows, cabarets, concerts, etc… And I learned something very important […]
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