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: Start Planning for A Christmas Carol

By Peter Filichia on January 06, 2014

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

Adults have differing opinions on politics, religion, sex, money and virtually everything else, but there’s one aspect of life on which they all agree.Time passes oh-so-swiftly and much-too-quickly.So start planning your December 2014 ...

Filichia Features: An Apology to Annie's director

By Peter Filichia on December 27, 2013

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Annie, Filichia Features, orphan

William Goldman said it best in his landmark 1969 book The Season.“It’s hard to be smart.”Yes, it certainly is. And while we have this message hammered home to us in some way or another most every day, I was reminded of it when I saw ...

Filichia Features: The Story of The Story of My Life

By Peter Filichia on December 20, 2013

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

You may know the song entitled “The Story of My Life” from Shrek, but do you know the musical called The Story of My Life? It has nothing to do with Pinocchio, Peter Pan or Papa Bear, as Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire’s song does. ...

Filichia Features: Tips from the Shrek Video and Two Cast Members

By Peter Filichia on December 13, 2013

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

When you mount a musical, you needn’t slavishly follow a Broadway’s production’s template.In fact, some of the best subsequent productions of musicals have varied widely from the Broadway originals. All the lines and songs have been kept ...

You Can't Stop the Beat with HAIRSPRAY JR. - Now Available for Licensing

By Tralen Doler on December 09, 2013

in Show/Author Spotlight, Education and Arts Advocacy, Announcements | Tags: MTI Broadway Junior Collection, New Shows

Welcome your actors to the 60's with HAIRSPRAY JR...the newest musical available for licensing from the MTI Broadway Junior Collection. Good morning, Baltimore! It's 1962, and spunky plus-size teen Tracy Turnblad has one big dream -- to dance on ...

Filichia Features: Music Math Charms to Soothe the Savage Kid

By Peter Filichia on December 06, 2013

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

It’s a long-held theory that people who are good at math are also good in music.So why not a musical about math?Many people are responsible for one aimed at the K-to-Grade Four set. It’s THE MAIN STREET KIDS’ CLUB: A MATHSTART MUSICAL.It ...

PETER PAN: Broadway's Timeless Musical Joins the MTI Family / Now Available for Licensing!

By Jason Cocovinis on December 02, 2013

in Announcements, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: New Shows

Get ready for the theatrical thrill of a lifetime...PETER PAN - the original Broadway classic is the newest addition to MTI's musical family and is available for licensing NOW! Join Peter, Wendy, Michael and John in the high-flying adventure that ...

Filichia Features: Take a Chance on Little Women

By Peter Filichia on November 27, 2013

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

Even those super-intellectual students at Harvard University have been known to say on their rare off-hours “Hey, kids! Let’s put on a show!”And so, an intrepid band of undergrads got together to do the musical version of Little Women, just ...

54 BELOW TO HOST GOLDRICH & HEISLER and MALTBY & SHIRE

By Music Theatre International on November 25, 2013

in Show/Author Spotlight

54 Below Broadway's premiere Supper Club is hosting two legendary MTI writing teams in December. Zina Goldrich & Marcy Heisler (DEAR EDWINA) and Richard Maltby, Jr. & David Shire (BABY, BIG The Musical, CLOSER THAN EVER, STARTING HERE, ...

Read "Drama High" - The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater

By Jason Cocovinis on November 25, 2013

in Announcements, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: In the News, Rent

Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, Phantom of the Opera, and MISS SAIGON take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production of LES MISERABLES? To see the show ...