SPRING AWAKENING is a musical based on Frank Wedekind’s 1891 expressionist play of the same name. Though bookwriter/lyricist Steven Sater and composer Duncan Sheik are fairly faithful to the original story, this is definitely an adaptation with a ...
Last summer Playbill.com reported an exciting new twist on one of MTI’s shows – an all-female cast of 1776! (Read the article here, and the original Marquee blog post about it here). In the article, Keith Edwards, son of the show’s ...
DAMN YANKEES features a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, a team also remembered fondly for their musical THE PAJAMA GAME. “Faust meets baseball” in this fun and touching show based on Wallop's ...
THE APPLE TREE with a score by lyricist Sheldon Harnick and Composer Jerry Bock (best known for shows like FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and SHE LOVES ME) and a book by Bock, Harnick and Jerome Coopersmith, THE APPLE TREE is a unique adaptation.Rather than ...
ALL IN LOVE is a little known musical from 1961 based on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 18th Century, British comedy of manners, The Rivals, first staged in 1775! The book and lyrics are by Bruce Geller and the music is by Jack Urbont – and the ...
It can be challenging to recreate the magic of a beloved movie musical on stage, but the new version of SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS has found the right formula for balancing artistic success and box office appeal for many regional theatres across ...
Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Tim Rice
Book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang.
AIDA: SCHOOL EDITION is "a contemporary musical take on a grand classic tale of the timeless bond between an enslaved Nubian princess and an ...
RENT: SCHOOL EDITION book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson.
The Story
RENT: SCHOOL EDITION is the Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical loosely based on Puccini's LA BOHEME. As described on the MTI show page, "it follows a year in the lives of ...
Book by Alain Boublil
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg
Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
Based on the novel by Victor Hugo
LES MISÉRABLES: SCHOOL EDITION tells the story of the musical epic LES MISÉRABLES in a form ...
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
SWEENEY TODD: SCHOOL EDITION with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.
Though the character Sweeney Todd dates back to the 19th Century, Sondheim and Wheeler's musical is adapted from ...
