A Year of Sondheim Milestones

We'd like to propose a toast to these six Sondheim titles!

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License The Prince of Egypt!

The epic musical adapted from the beloved DreamWorks Animation film is available for your stage.

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MTI Acquires & Juliet, The Larger Than Life Musical!

Audiences "Can't Stop The Feeling" with this high-energy hit!

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Filichia Features: Catch Me If You Can Can Indeed Succeed

By Peter Filichia on August 01, 2014

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You could, of course, do Catch Me If You Can the way it was done on Broadway. Take Troupe 4982 from Bradford High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which brought its production to the Thespian Festival in Lincoln in June. Through a production that pretty ...

Filichia Features: “To Life!” to Fiddler On The Roof

By Peter Filichia on July 25, 2014

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Photos by John Nollendorfs.Does the musical that toasted “To Life!” have any life left?Oh, yes. Almost 50 years to the day that Fiddler On The Roof began rehearsals at the Lyceum Theatre in New York, Edina (Minnesota) High School proved ...

Filichia Features: It’s Alex Stone by a Knockout

By Peter Filichia on July 18, 2014

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Some of the Thespian Festival workshops on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus are held in modest classrooms.Not this one.The mammoth all-purpose room in the Westbrook Music Building will be needed today, for no less than Marc Shaiman and ...

Filichia Features: Mary’s Eye-Poppin’ at Green Valley High

By Jason Cocovinis on July 11, 2014

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At the Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska, communal lunches may be common, but the conversations among participants is choice.I was sitting near a middle-aged man who’s one of the dozens of high school drama directors here. Said he, “I’ve ...

Filichia Features: Teachers: Thinkin’ about Lincoln?

By Peter Filichia on July 04, 2014

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Here’s an easy prediction to make.Theater teachers and high school drama club members who weren’t in Lincoln, Nebraska last week didn’t have nearly as good a time as those who trekked to the Midwest metropolis.The Thespian Festival marked ...

Filichia Features: Candide in a Church

By Peter Filichia on June 27, 2014

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Looking for a space to do your next musical and can’t find any?Don’t overlook the possibility of renting the local church.I know, I know. Pews instead of theater seats means no arm rests --aside from one on each aisle and one in the ...

Filichia Features: Murder Ballad Will Out

By Peter Filichia on June 21, 2014

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Whodunnit?One thing’s for certain: in the musical MURDER BALLAD, the butler didn’t.He couldn’t have, for none of the characters in this 2012 musical works in that capacity. Michael is a poet. Tom is an actor/bartender -- with the accent ...

Filichia Features: Indeed, What About Luv?

By Peter Filichia on June 13, 2014

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Two middle-aged character men, one middle-aged character woman, one set, one piano, everyday contemporary clothes (well, okay, one mink coat), and you’re in business.In fact, you don’t even need the set to do What About Luv? The entire ...

Filichia Features: The Baker's Wife is Cookin'

By Peter Filichia on June 06, 2014

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Here’s the way to advertise it: “From the composer-lyricist of Wicked, Pippin and Godspell.”That’s ad copy that’ll sell tickets – and you wouldn’t be lying. Oh, your audience may think you’re fibbing once it begins to hear ...

Filichia Features: Disney's Peter Pan, Jr. Flies with “Penguins”

By Peter Filichia on May 30, 2014

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In his program bio, Will Shunk stated that he is “a fifth grade student” who was “born with CP” -- cerebral palsy – “which affects his ability to control his body.”Shunk then added, “He hasn’t let it get him down. He’s had a ...