Broadway Junior Project
Music Theatre International’s Broadway Junior® Project provides schools that lack arts programming with the FREE training and materials necessary to present a Broadway Junior® musical production in their school. The goals of the Project are to:
- Assist schools that currently have no full time arts specialist to create an infusion of the arts and an arts culture within the school
- Build a strong community through the arts that includes the school, parents and members of the community at large
- Engage as many students as possible in all aspects and areas of the arts
- Encourage the connection of arts programming to curriculum including assessment
Schools interested in being part of Music Theatre International’s Broadway Junior Project must fill out an application to be one of three winning schools selected for 2016/2017.
The three winning schools will receive:
- A license to perform a Broadway Junior musical of their choice
- A ShowKit® of materials that supplies teachers with all the resources they will need to direct, choreograph and teach music like a true professional
- Professional development workshops for the schools’ teachers
About Broadway Junior Musicals
Broadway Junior musicals are 60-minute adaptations of classic and contemporary shows perfect for middle-school aged performers.
Browse the collection of musicals.
About the Professional Development Workshops
Teams of teachers from each of the selected schools will participate in Professional Development workshops in a variety of areas lead by Master Teachers from educational theatre experts, iTheatrics.
These workshops will provide training in all areas of musical theatre production as well as curriculum connections and community involvement. Throughout the entire process of rehearsal and performance a local professional Production Advisor selected by MTI will offer guidance in these same areas while continuing to empower the teaching teams to run the program by themselves.
Benefits to Participating Schools
- Complete Broadway Junior ShowKit including:
- Director’s Script
- 2 Performance/Accompaniment CD’s
- 20 Student Libretto/Vocal Books
- 2 Piano/Vocal Scores
- Production Handbook
- Cross-Curricular Activities and Enrichment Guide
- Choreographic Video
- Chorus Books
- An arts specialist working with your school for the entire process
- 3 Professional Development workshops for the project teachers
Timeline 2016 - 2017
- February – April: Schools identified, applications sent to interested schools
- April 31: Completed applications due
- Early May: iTheatrics site visits to schools to select participants
- June/July: Schools select shows, Production Advisor assigned
- September/October: Professional Development workshops
- September – November: Scheduling work with schools teams & Production Advisor
- January – April 2017: Rehearsals
- April/May 2017: Performances
Application
Questions & Answers
Related shows or resources: Disney's My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto's Musical Tale
songs rights
As Dominican producers (IG: ProduccionesFArd ), we are planning staging "Pinocho" for this coming winter. we have our own script and songs, based on the original story book by Carlo Collodi, but looking for using two songs from "My Son Pinocchio": "When you Wish upon a Star" and "Without Strings".
Is it feasible to have the rights for this? I"m able to send all the needs to make this possible. If you need to have an in-person interview, just let me know.
Best regards,
Alina Abreu
Related shows or resources: Waitress
Since the national tour and Broadway run is over, do you have any information on when waitress will be released?
Answer this QuestionRelated shows or resources: Oliver!
We are trying to see if Oliver! is available to do next year for our school show, but the website comes up with 'page not found.' Is it possible to apply for these rights for a performance next year?
We are trying to see if Oliver! is available to do next year for our school show, but the website comes up with 'page not found.' Is it possible to apply for these rights for a performance next year?
Related shows or resources: The All Night Strut! A Jumpin' Jivin' Jam
Are there pre-recorded backing available, we don’t have a live band at our disposal but we’d love to do this show!
Music
Related shows or resources: Mean Girls
¿Can we present this musical with my friends?
¡Hi! My name is Trinidad Ried and I'm from Santiago, Chile. With 2 friends we started to produce amateur musical theater just for fun and because we are theater nerds haha. We want to produce Mean Girls with our university friends. The university let us use their theater and we were wondering if we could do this without license. It's non profit, just for fun and by amateur students!!
Thank you!!
Related shows or resources: Disney's Finding Nemo JR.
Kids Edition?
Are there plans to release a Kids Edition as well, given the new parks show is a 25-min version?
Related shows or resources: Disney's Moana JR.
I need a ten pack of scripts. How do I order?
Answer this QuestionRelated shows or resources: Mean Girls
Rights Query
Hi! Our theater would really love to do Mean Girls as our spring production next year, but of course, I know that y’all can’t determine when rights will be available to amateur theaters right now. I was wondering if there is even any chance that Mean Girls will be available for licensing by the spring for youth/community theaters, or if it will most likely only be available for professional licensing once it is released. Also, if there is a chance it would be available to youth groups/community theaters, is there any way we could license our second choice and then “switch” to Mean Girls if the rights were to become available in time? That might be a stupid question, but i at least wanted to ask. Thank you so much in advance!