The national tour of Disney's Beauty and the Beast just rolled into Fort Meyers, Florida. The local news helped promote the performances with a backstage tour featuring some of the show's actors...in particular, former MTI employee and regular MTI ...
It was previously announced that the MTI show How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will return to the Great White Way in 2011. If this news alone doesn't excite you, perhaps you should know that Daniel Radcliffe, of "Harry Potter" and ...
BIG, Richard Maltby Jr, John Weidman, and David Shire's musical adaptation of the film by the same name, is a hilarious, unorthodox look at the perils of taking childhood for granted. Unlike Jason Robert Brown's 13, in which the main character ...
Composer/librettist Andrew Lippa is probably best known for his adaptation of THE WILD PARTY and for writing the score of THE ADDAMS FAMILY, which recently opened on Broadway and stars Bebe Neuwirth and Nathan Lane. But before either show, Lippa ...
The new installment of Andrew Keenan-Bolger's weekly series, "Yous Guys," is now up on MTI ShowSpace! Each week, Andrew asks a question in the video. Write your response in the comment box below the video, and Andrew might feature it in the ...
This weekend, New York audiences are in for a treat. Encores!, a concert series of rarely performed American musicals, is currently staging the experimental Stephen Sondheim/Arthur Laurents musical, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE. The show, which has ...
The path to becoming a Broadway composer, lyricist, or bookwriter isn't well-defined or easy; it takes a tremendous amount of talent, hard work, and luck. For RENT author Jonathan Larson, who wrote all three components of his musicals himself, ...
The ingredients? Raw script, adapted and new music, a stage space and most importantly KIDS! In this case, our initial partnership with a NYC public school to pilot a new KIDS Collection show during the last week of March. And what a conception! ...
Tuesday, June 29 will mark the 100th birthday of composer and lyricist Frank Loesser. Over the course of his career, Loesser wrote over 700 songs and five Broadway musicals and contributed music and lyrics to dozens of Hollywood films.
A number of ...
Before RENT became a cultural phenomenon when it opened on Broadway in 1996, Jonathan Larson was hard at work on another musical: SUPERBIA. A rock adaptation of 1984, George Orwell's dystopian vision of the future (even though Larson was denied the ...