Too bad there isn’t a meter to measure civic pride.If there were, Mason City, Iowa – the real River City that bookwriter-composer-lyricist Meredith Willson fictionalized in his Tony-winning 1957-58 musical THE MUSIC MAN – would score ...

The following piece was written by Drama High author Michael Sokolove in celebration of the book's paperback editions. A book is not a living thing in quite the same way a theater piece is. But after a story is written and bound between hard ...

MTI has secured worldwide licensing rights to Broadway’s Tony® Award-winning musical, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY. The musical features a score by 2014 Tony® Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations award winner Jason Robert Brown ...

Shirley Jones as Mrs. Paroo and son Patrick Cassidy as Harold Hill in a 50th anniversary production of "The Music Man" at the Bushnell Theatre in Hartford, Ct. (Ben Gancsos)It all started from a casual, off-the-cuff story.“About a ...

Fifty years ago this week, Fiddler On The Roof opened at the Imperial Theatre and wound up becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history. Granted, now that we’re in an era of much longer runs thanks to New York tourism and fewer ...

It's a "big bright beautiful world" for everyone's favorite ogre in SHREK THE MUSICAL JR., based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film and hit Broadway musical. Adapted to approximately 60 minutes for young performers and featuring a host of ...

He'd called and said he'd be a little late for the 10 a.m. rehearsal, so even when the clock struck 10:15 and Bernie Yvon hadn't yet arrived, no one gave it much of a thought.By 10:30, a few started to worry.By 10:45, most everyone was ...

"One of the most glowing creations in the history of the musical theater. Filled with laughter and tenderness. It catches the essence of a moment in history with sentiment and radiance." - The New York Times With thousands of productions seen by ...

We're thrilled to announce the release of three brand new TYA musicals, Elephant And Piggie's "We Are In A Play!", and Stiles and Drewe's Goldilocks And The Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs, as well as offer some great suggestions for other ...

It was an inspired notion. Ten years after Sandy Wilson had struck gold as the bookwriter, composer and lyricist of The Boy Friend, he decided to revisit those “perfect young ladies from finishing school” that he’d created. Now he’d imagine ...