“Exciting New Musical 1963.”So said the circular yellow sticker that London Records pasted on the cover of every original cast album of Riverwind. Actually, if we’re going to get technical about it, Riverwind was really “Exciting New ...

WORKING is a down-to-earth yet elevating musical that features songs that are based on real interviews.  In the musical, twenty-six workers, including a parking lot attendant, corporate executive, schoolteacher, gas man, housewife, fireman, ...

Now that Bring It On is finishing its extended run on Broadway, the time will soon come when you’ll be able to present it, too. It’s Music Theatre International’s newest acquisition.Because the musical deals with cheerleaders, high school ...

The Stories Behind MTI's 2012 New Releases MISS SAIGON (SCHOOL EDITION), the LITTLE MERMAID (JR) and A LITTLE PRINCESS became the newest WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN after the LOVE STORY between BONNIE AND CLYDE turned them into TOXIC ...

Let’s face it: most directors of professional or community productions of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee cast too old.They seem to ignore the fact that this competition is supposed to be for teens. Do they fear that bookwriter Rachel ...

You don’t need to wait one day more to join the licensing revolution, because now the full-length version of LES MISÉRABLES is available to license in North America for a limited time, for performances starting in June 2013 (some regional ...

Thirty-one years ago this week, Broadway saw the last of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG.Granted, the then-new 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical had a hard act to follow: SWEENEY TODD, the 1979 musical (or opera, if you insist) that most everyone agrees is the ...

Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI), Universal Pictures Stage Productions, and Beacon Communications today announced that BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL is the newest Broadway production to join MTI’s global theatrical licensing ...

“Fifty years from now, they'll still be arguing about the grassy knoll, the Mafia, some Cuban crouched behind a stockade fence.”So says Lee Harvey Oswald's role model in Assassins. And as of this week, the 49th anniversary of the assassination ...

I’ve talked about many a musical in the last year, but now I’ll talk about a play I saw on Broadway last week: The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz.Not simply because Moisés Kaufman’s production is wonderful, or because Jessica Chastain, ...