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Spotlighting QUILT: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION

By EllaRose Chary on December 1, 2014

in Announcements, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Jim Morgan, John Schak, Lincoln Center Avery Fisher Hall, Merle Hubbard, Michael Stockler, the NAMES PROJECT AIDS memorial quilt, In the News, Show Spotlight

QUILT: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION is a musical based on stories for, from and about the NAMES PROJECT AIDS memorial quilt. The book is by Jim Morgan, Merle Hubbard and John Schak, with music by Michael Stockler and lyrics by Jim Morgan. In 1987, the ...

MTI Shows In Literature: DESSA ROSE

By EllaRose Chary on January 9, 2013

in Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Lynn Aherns, Shirley Anne Williams, stephen flaherty, Show Spotlight, Shows in Literature

Next up in our series highlighting MTI Shows In Literature is DESSA ROSE. The Shows in Literature series features musicals based on classic works – including novels, plays and children’s books. Based on Shirley Anne Williams’ novel of the ...

MTI Shows In Literature: LUCKY STIFF

By EllaRose Chary on January 9, 2013

in Show/Author Spotlight, Announcements | Tags: Michael Butterworth, General MTI News, Show Spotlight, Shows in Literature

In continuing with a series we’ve been doing that highlights MTI shows which are based on classic literature – including novels, plays and children’s books – today we’re featuring LUCKY STIFF. LUCKY STIFF was the now famous writing team ...

WOMEN ON THE VERGE of Fast Track nofication

By EllaRose Chary on September 10, 2012

in Show/Author Spotlight, Announcements | Tags: Bartlett Sher, Danny Burstein, David Yazbek, Jeffrey Lane, Laura Benanti, Patti Lupone, Pedro Almodovar, Sherie Rene Scott, New Shows

WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, one of the most star-studded musicals of the 2010-11 Broadway season is now available for Fast Track Notification! Sign up now and you'll be among the first to know as soon as the show is available for ...

Fall in Love All Over Again - LOVE STORY THE MUSICAL Available for Fast Track Notification

By EllaRose Chary on September 7, 2012

in Show/Author Spotlight, Announcements | Tags: Ali McGraw, American Film Institute, Ryan O'Neal, New Shows

Erich Segal's best-selling novel Love Story has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide and is the basis for a brand new musical soon to be available from MTI. A New York Times No. 1 bestseller, the book became the top selling work of ...

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Puts The Ritz on MTI

By EllaRose Chary on August 29, 2012

in Announcements, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: All MTI's Sites, Andrea Martin, Megan Mullally, Mel Brooks, Music Theatre International, Musical Theater, musical theatre, Roger Bart, Sutton Foster, theater, theatre, thomas meehan, New Shows

After the success of THE PRODUCERS in 2001, director, writer, actor and producer Mel Brooks adapted another of his outrageously hilarious movies into a musical. The film, which Brooks describes as his “best” is Young Frankenstein, and the musical ...

TARZAN Swings Into MTI - Sign Up for Fast Track Notification

By EllaRose Chary on August 29, 2012

in Show/Author Spotlight, Announcements | Tags: David Henry Hwang, Disney, Phil Collins, Tarzan, Choosing Your High School's Musical, New Shows

Tarzan has been a western cultural staple since Edgar Rice Burroughs published his novel Tarzan of the Apes in 1914. The Lord of the Jungle's story has gone through many incarnations and been told through a variety of media, including radio, ...

THE BURNT PART BOYS Songwriters Talk About The Show

By EllaRose Chary on July 6, 2012

in Making Theater, Announcements, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Behind-the-Scenes, General MTI News, MTI Authors, New Shows, Show Spotlight, Theatre on the Edge

THE BURNT PART BOYS, book by Mariana Elder, lyrics by Nathan Tysen, and music by Chris Miller, is the newest addition to MTI’s Theatre on the Edge collection. Theatre on The Edge shows are marked by the fact that they have garnered a ...

HAIRSPRAY and HAIRSPRAY JR. Start a Summer Tradition in Des Moines

By EllaRose Chary on July 2, 2012

in Show/Author Spotlight, Education and Arts Advocacy | Tags: Des Moines Community Playhouse, diversity, Jr., Kathy Pingel, Marc Shaiman, mark o'donnell, Scott Wittman, thomas meehan, MTI Broadway Junior Collection, Show Spotlight

Last summer, Des Moines Community Playhouse, a community theater in Des Moines, Iowa, did something they had never done before – a main stage production of a musical running in repertory with a full-blown kids’ musical. The shows? HAIRSPRAY and a ...

THE FIX is In!

By EllaRose Chary on May 15, 2012

in Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Show Spotlight

One of the great things about the MTI catalogue is that it often feels like there is a musical for every occasion, and the 2012 election cycle is no exception. THE FIX, a musical satire from John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe, is a modern, crackling, and ...