Sitting in the Upper Elementary School in Moorestown, New Jersey, I’m looking forward to the audience reaction when the lights come up at a certain moment in Scene Four.The Moorestown Theatre Company is offering Thoroughly Modern Millie, the ...

Tony-nominated composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Andy Jones (Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella), Heidi Blickenstaff (The Little Mermaid), Ashley Brown (the original Mary Poppins), Merle Dandridge (Tarzan, Aida), Josh Strickland (the ...

Whenever someone has asked me the question, “If you could have as a dinner companion anyone who’s ever lived, who would it be?” my answer has always been “Thornton Wilder. I’d love to chat with the man who pointed out how precious life is ...

The curtain is about to rise on your next production! As you begin choosing your spring and summer musicals we would like to offer some suggestions from our MTI BROADWAY JUNIOR COLLECTION featuring 30 and 60 minute musicals for young performers. To ...

Adults have differing opinions on politics, religion, sex, money and virtually everything else, but there’s one aspect of life on which they all agree.Time passes oh-so-swiftly and much-too-quickly.So start planning your December 2014 ...

William Goldman said it best in his landmark 1969 book The Season.“It’s hard to be smart.”Yes, it certainly is. And while we have this message hammered home to us in some way or another most every day, I was reminded of it when I saw ...

You may know the song entitled “The Story of My Life” from Shrek, but do you know the musical called The Story of My Life? It has nothing to do with Pinocchio, Peter Pan or Papa Bear, as Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire’s song does. ...

Whether you are attending solo for Professional Development to enrich your soul or bringing kids to "strut their stuff', JTF Atlanta, GA 2014 promises to deliver.  It never fails, never!  The finely tuned recipe of musical theatre, passionate kids ...

When you mount a musical, you needn’t slavishly follow a Broadway’s production’s template.In fact, some of the best subsequent productions of musicals have varied widely from the Broadway originals. All the lines and songs have been kept ...

Welcome your actors to the 60's with HAIRSPRAY JR...the newest musical available for licensing from the MTI Broadway Junior Collection. Good morning, Baltimore! It's 1962, and spunky plus-size teen Tracy Turnblad has one big dream -- to dance on ...