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- MTI ShowSpace Launch Party
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Thursday, November 12 at 6:00pm - MTI ShowSpace "beta" Launch
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Tuesday, June 23 at 1:00am
Music Theatre International This past weekend, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, star of 3rd Rock from the Sun and 500 Days of Summer, opened Saturday Night Live with a rousing rendition of "Make 'Em Laugh" from the classic musical Singin' in the Rain. MTI salutes this performance (and the overcast skies!) with today's featured show.
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MTI Featured Show of the Day: SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
This past weekend, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, star of 3rd Rock from the Sun and 500 Days of Summer, opened Saturday Night Live with a rousing rendition of "Make 'Em Laugh" from the classic musical Singin' in the Rain. MTI salutes this performance (and the overcast skies!) wit...h today's featured show.
Check it out here: http://www.hulu.com/watch/110319/saturda
This past weekend, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, star of 3rd Rock from the Sun and 500 Days of Summer, opened Saturday Night Live with a rousing rendition of "Make 'Em Laugh" from the classic musical Singin' in the Rain. MTI salutes this performance (and the overcast skies!) wit...h today's featured show.
Check it out here: http://www.hulu.com/watch/110319/saturda
Source: www.mtishows.com
1920s Hollywood is the setting for this zany, light-hearted romantic comedy about the early days of sound film, when many a movie studio found itself scrambling to salvage the career of its chipmunk-voiced silent picture star.
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MTI Featured Show of the Day: MOBY DICK! THE MUSICAL
On November 20, 1820, an 80 ton sperm whale attacked a whaling ship from Massachusetts called the Essex, partially inspiring Herman Melville's epic novel, Moby Dick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick). MTI commemorates the event with today's Featured Show: a wac...ky musical spoof of Melville's tale.
Ever thought Moby Dick would be a great subject for a musical? The students of St. Godley's Academy for Young Ladies do! In order to save their bankrupt school that's seen better days, the girls decide to put on a
musical version of Moby Dick. The highly comic, satirical romp through
this age-old mariner's tale that ensues proves to be a world of
endless, funny double entendres and wonderful, pastiche-y company
numbers.Read More
On November 20, 1820, an 80 ton sperm whale attacked a whaling ship from Massachusetts called the Essex, partially inspiring Herman Melville's epic novel, Moby Dick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick). MTI commemorates the event with today's Featured Show: a wac...ky musical spoof of Melville's tale.
Ever thought Moby Dick would be a great subject for a musical? The students of St. Godley's Academy for Young Ladies do! In order to save their bankrupt school that's seen better days, the girls decide to put on a
musical version of Moby Dick. The highly comic, satirical romp through
this age-old mariner's tale that ensues proves to be a world of
endless, funny double entendres and wonderful, pastiche-y company
numbers.Read More
Source: www.mtishows.com
The girls of St. Godley’s School are in trouble! Money for the school has run out and the place will have to close. Leave it to these resourceful girls, and their unflappable headmistress (played by a man in drag), to come up with a plan to keep the school afloat. Using whatever they can find at han...
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Featured Show of the Day: THE CIVIL WAR
Seven score and six years ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech dedicating a portion of the battlefield at Gettysburg as the Soldiers' National Cemetery, a speech which has become an integral part of the American cultural identity.
Based on Letters, diaries, and corr...espondence of Civil War soldiers and
their families as well as the words and writings of Abraham Lincoln,
Frederick Douglas and Walt Whitman, THE CIVIL WAR is unlike any other musical in the MTI Collection. Frank Wildhorn delivers a country and rock infused score that perfectly captures the moving and heartbreaking experiences of the ordinary Americans caught up in the epic battles on both sides of this national crisis.Read More
Seven score and six years ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech dedicating a portion of the battlefield at Gettysburg as the Soldiers' National Cemetery, a speech which has become an integral part of the American cultural identity.
Based on Letters, diaries, and corr...espondence of Civil War soldiers and
their families as well as the words and writings of Abraham Lincoln,
Frederick Douglas and Walt Whitman, THE CIVIL WAR is unlike any other musical in the MTI Collection. Frank Wildhorn delivers a country and rock infused score that perfectly captures the moving and heartbreaking experiences of the ordinary Americans caught up in the epic battles on both sides of this national crisis.Read More
Source: www.mtishows.com
"The Civil War" is a thrilling, gut-wrenching and awe-inspiring "dramatic theatrical concert" that covers the enormous emotional landscape of the most difficult test our nation has ever endured. This epic thematic revue, reminiscent of Ken Burns' acclaimed documentary, puts a human face on the great...
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Featured Show of the Day: PIRATES OF PENZANCE JUNIOR
Happy Birthday, Mr. Gilbert!
Source: www.mtishows.com
Wacky, irreverent and as entertaining today as it was when it first opened in 1879, THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE spins a hilarious farce of sentimental pirates, bumbling policemen, dim-witted young lovers, dewy-eyed daughters and an eccentric Major-General, all morally bound to the often-ridiculous dicta...
Music Theatre International From the MTI Marquee: The RAGTIME Broadway Revival opens to positive reviews!
Source: mtiblog.mtishows.com
number of great reviews! The critics agree: RAGTIME is perhaps more appropriate now than it was when it first opened ten years ago.
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MTI Featured Show of the Day: RAGTIME
Happy opening to the Broadway revival of RAGTIME!
Source: www.mtishows.com
RAGTIME is not only a powerful portrait of life in turn-of-the-century America, but a relevant tale for today. Written by the award-winning composer/lyricist team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens ("Once On This Island," "Seussical," "Lucky Stiff"), noted playwright Terrence McNally, ("Kiss of the...
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Win authentic memorabilia from one of America’s greatest composers, by entering our “How To Win Cool Stuff Without Really Trying Sweepstakes: “Thanks, Frank!” Photo Contest”*
Three Grand Prize winners will receive an incredible “Frank Loesser Prize Pack” which includes:
-Heart & Soul (DVD of PBS Documentary)
-Guys & Dolls... (CD - Original Broadway Cast Recording, DVD – Film)
-How to Succeed in Business (CD - Original Broadway Cast Recording, DVD – Film)
-Hans Christian Andersen (CD - Original Broadway Cast Recording, DVD – Film)
-Frank Sings Loesser (CD)
-Loesser By Loesser (CD)
-Where's Charley? (CD - Original Broadway Cast Recording)
-Greenwillow (CD - Original Broadway Cast Recording)
-Most Happy Fella (CD - Original Broadway Cast Recording)
-The Frank Loesser Songbook (Paperback)
-A Most Remarkable Fella (Paperback)
-The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser (Hardcover)
-Framed Centennial Celebration Poster (Signed by Jo Loesser)
-Centennial Celebration Commemorative T-Shirt
*No Purchase or Payment Necessary. HOW TO WIN COOL STUFF WITHOUT REALLY TRYING SWEEPSTAKES, “Thanks, Frank!” Photo Contest starts on Nov 12, 2009 and ends on Dec 1, 2009 at 11:59PM ET. Sweepstakes is open to residents of the 50 U.S. states (and D.C.) aged 13 years and older. For entry and official rules go to www.mtishowspace.com. Void where prohibited. Sponsor: MTI Showspace, L.P., 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019.Read More
Three Grand Prize winners will receive an incredible “Frank Loesser Prize Pack” which includes:
-Heart & Soul (DVD of PBS Documentary)
-Guys & Dolls... (CD - Original Broadway Cast Recording, DVD – Film)
-How to Succeed in Business (CD - Original Broadway Cast Recording, DVD – Film)
-Hans Christian Andersen (CD - Original Broadway Cast Recording, DVD – Film)
-Frank Sings Loesser (CD)
-Loesser By Loesser (CD)
-Where's Charley? (CD - Original Broadway Cast Recording)
-Greenwillow (CD - Original Broadway Cast Recording)
-Most Happy Fella (CD - Original Broadway Cast Recording)
-The Frank Loesser Songbook (Paperback)
-A Most Remarkable Fella (Paperback)
-The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser (Hardcover)
-Framed Centennial Celebration Poster (Signed by Jo Loesser)
-Centennial Celebration Commemorative T-Shirt
*No Purchase or Payment Necessary. HOW TO WIN COOL STUFF WITHOUT REALLY TRYING SWEEPSTAKES, “Thanks, Frank!” Photo Contest starts on Nov 12, 2009 and ends on Dec 1, 2009 at 11:59PM ET. Sweepstakes is open to residents of the 50 U.S. states (and D.C.) aged 13 years and older. For entry and official rules go to www.mtishowspace.com. Void where prohibited. Sponsor: MTI Showspace, L.P., 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019.Read More
Source: www.mtishowspace.com
Here at MTI, we’re grateful for the impact musical theatre has had on all of our lives. As Thanksgiving approaches, we’re especially grateful to a wonderful man who helped make this organization possible…the incomparable, Frank Loesser. Help us kick-off the Loesser Centennial Celebration by showin...
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Featured Show of the Day: GRAND HOTEL
The original play version of GRAND HOTEL opened at the National Theater (Now the Nederlander Theater) on November 13, 1930 and ran for a year and a half. Sixty years later, the musical version won five TONY awards and ran for three years.
Come, spend a night or two in the world's mos...t opulent, extravagant
hotel. Perhaps you will find your fortune there, perhaps you will find
true love, perhaps all of your dreams will come true...perhaps...Read More
The original play version of GRAND HOTEL opened at the National Theater (Now the Nederlander Theater) on November 13, 1930 and ran for a year and a half. Sixty years later, the musical version won five TONY awards and ran for three years.
Come, spend a night or two in the world's mos...t opulent, extravagant
hotel. Perhaps you will find your fortune there, perhaps you will find
true love, perhaps all of your dreams will come true...perhaps...Read More
Source: www.mtishows.com
It is 1928. The world is between wars, the stock market is booming, Berlin is the center of high life, and optimism rules the day. Inspired by Viki Baum's period novel, book writer/playwright Luther Davis (Kismet, Timbuktu!) collaborated once again with the prolific, distinguished composer-lyricist ...
Music Theatre International just launched MTI ShowSpace! Dedicated to people who love and live musical theatre, MTI ShowSpace offers thespians and fans a space to connect with anyone and everyone involved in the theatrical process, and serves as a continuously expanding free knowledge database so that members can make their next show their best show.
Source: www.mtishowspace.com
MTI ShowSpace is the brainchild of Music Theatre International, a musical theatre licensing company whose name many of you may recognize from the scripts and scores you use while doing shows in school and community theatre. ...
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MTI Featured Show of the Day: AIDA
Happy birthday, Tim Rice!
Known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber as well as his lyrics for Disney animated films, Tim Rice teamed up with pop superstar Elton John (currently representated on Broadway with BILLY ELLIOT) and bookwriter/playwright David Henry Hwang (YELLOWF...ACE, M. BUTTERFLY) to create this pop-rock adaptation of the classic Verdi opera. Despite the story's tragic nature, AIDA offers a powerful message of hope and the strength of love.Read More
Happy birthday, Tim Rice!
Known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber as well as his lyrics for Disney animated films, Tim Rice teamed up with pop superstar Elton John (currently representated on Broadway with BILLY ELLIOT) and bookwriter/playwright David Henry Hwang (YELLOWF...ACE, M. BUTTERFLY) to create this pop-rock adaptation of the classic Verdi opera. Despite the story's tragic nature, AIDA offers a powerful message of hope and the strength of love.Read More
Source: www.mtishows.com
AIDA is a contemporary musical take on a grand classic tale of the timeless bond between an enslaved Nubian princess and an Egyptian soldier. As forbidden love blossoms between them, the young lovers are forced to face death or part forever. Together, they set a shining example of true devotion that...
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MTI Featured Show of the Day: STRIKE UP THE BAND
In honor of John Philip Sousa's birthday, rouse your patriotic spirit with MTI's Show of the Day!
The instigators of the Boston Tea Party have nothing on Horace J. Fletcher! Owner of the Fletcher American Cheese Company, Fletcher convinces the U.S. to go to war with Switz...erland over the normally neutral country's cheese tariff. But when war skeptic Jim Townsend and Fletcher's daughter make their love public, Fletcher quickly has Townsend shipped to the front lines in Switzerland. The man not only criticized the war--he insulted the quality of Fletcher's cheese!
This hilarious look at the relationship between food and patriotism has a score by George and Ira Gershwin and book by George S. Kaufman.Read More
In honor of John Philip Sousa's birthday, rouse your patriotic spirit with MTI's Show of the Day!
The instigators of the Boston Tea Party have nothing on Horace J. Fletcher! Owner of the Fletcher American Cheese Company, Fletcher convinces the U.S. to go to war with Switz...erland over the normally neutral country's cheese tariff. But when war skeptic Jim Townsend and Fletcher's daughter make their love public, Fletcher quickly has Townsend shipped to the front lines in Switzerland. The man not only criticized the war--he insulted the quality of Fletcher's cheese!
This hilarious look at the relationship between food and patriotism has a score by George and Ira Gershwin and book by George S. Kaufman.Read More
Source: www.mtishows.com
Horace J. Fletcher, proud owner of the Fletcher American Cheese Co., outraged when Switzerland protests a tariff on imported cheese, convinces the U.S. government to declare a war, financed by himself and dubbed “The Horace J. Fletcher Memorial War.” When his daughter announces her love for Jim Town...
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MTI Featured Show of the Day: DAMN YANKEES
(Did anyone think we'd pick any other show today?)
We're sure there were Phillies fans that might have traded their souls for a World Series Victory last night -- though apparently none actually did so.
More than 50 years after its original Broadway debut, this musical classic remains as timely as ever.
Source: www.mtishows.com
Faust meets professional baseball in this Broadway classic from the creators of "The Pajama Game." Middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd trades his soul to the Devil (the charming but devious Mr. Applegate) for a chance to lead his favorite team to victory in the pennant race against the New York Ya...
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MTI Featured Show of the Day: FIORELLO!
The last time NYC elected a republican mayor for three terms, the result was this charming musical by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, the team behind the beloved musicals FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and SHE LOVES ME.
Unlike most political musicals, which are usually satires,
"Fiorello!" is ...really a love story set to the music and beat of a New
York City in the midst of change. The little man with the big hearts
continues to attract and charm audiences with his warmth and humor.
NYC's last 3-term Mayor (Ed Koch) was also the subject of a musical, MAYOR. No word yet on any forthcoming musical about the Bloomberg Administration.Read More
The last time NYC elected a republican mayor for three terms, the result was this charming musical by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, the team behind the beloved musicals FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and SHE LOVES ME.
Unlike most political musicals, which are usually satires,
"Fiorello!" is ...really a love story set to the music and beat of a New
York City in the midst of change. The little man with the big hearts
continues to attract and charm audiences with his warmth and humor.
NYC's last 3-term Mayor (Ed Koch) was also the subject of a musical, MAYOR. No word yet on any forthcoming musical about the Bloomberg Administration.Read More
Source: www.mtishows.com
One of only seven musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "Fiorello!" tells the story of the rise to power of New York's "Little Flower," Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (1882-1947). In a time when the crooked political machine known as "Tammany Hall" was up to its ears in graft, vice and corruption,...
