Here’s some advice to directors who’d like to do Shrek.Don’t dread the thought of that heavy latex headpiece that your Shrek would wear.Do as Stephen L. Fredericks did in his production of SHREK at The Growing Stage in Netcong, New ...
One hundred and seventy years ago this month, Hans Christian Andersen wrote one of his most beloved stories.It was so beloved, in fact, that bookwriter-lyricist Anthony Drewe and composer George Stiles thought it would make an ideal ...
In a way, it’s The Producers and Les Miserables combined.At first glance, that may seem to be a strange way to describe Catch Me If You Can, the 2011 musical with a book by Ragtime’s Terrence McNally and a score by Hairspray's Marc Shaiman and ...
Kidz Theater Pilot Production of Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark KIDSLast Friday, we talked about the marvelous 40-minute musical MAGIC TREE HOUSE: DINOSAURS BEFORE DARK KIDS that Jenny Laird, Randy Courts and Will Osborne crafted from ...
Mary Pope Osborne, the esteemed children’s writer, was looking for an idea. What would be a good book for kids aged six-to-nine who were currently in grades one-to-four?Then inspiration hit. She’d write about a Magic Tree House where boys and ...
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Last week, while reviewing Les Miserables School Edition, I suggested that producing the British mega-hit may lead to one unexpected benefit.It may be a logical successor to West Side Story in attracting boys into musical theater.I quoted Rhode ...
At the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta last January, I rubbed elbows with many high school drama directors – of whom I always asked the same question: “So what show are you doing next year?”Quite often I got the same answer: “Well, I’d ...
Music Theatre International founder Frank Loesser once wrote a song called “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” Now Music Theatre International and iTheatrics are asking middle school teachers a different question: “What Jr. musical areyou ...
