Monday, May 3, marks the 50th anniversary of THE FANTASTICKS. Tom Jones, the show's lyricist/bookwriter, has a special treat for audiences in honor of this occasion: he'll be up onstage, performing.
Jones had played the old actor Henry when the ...
It's been roughly ten years since the ANNIE national tour first started spreading its message of optimism and family throughout the country, but now it's coming to a close. Everyone's favorite plucky orphan can still bring her infectious joy to a ...
The national tour of Disney's Beauty and the Beast just rolled into Fort Meyers, Florida. The local news helped promote the performances with a backstage tour featuring some of the show's actors...in particular, former MTI employee and regular MTI ...
It was previously announced that the MTI show How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will return to the Great White Way in 2011. If this news alone doesn't excite you, perhaps you should know that Daniel Radcliffe, of "Harry Potter" and ...
BIG, Richard Maltby Jr, John Weidman, and David Shire's musical adaptation of the film by the same name, is a hilarious, unorthodox look at the perils of taking childhood for granted. Unlike Jason Robert Brown's 13, in which the main character ...
Composer/librettist Andrew Lippa is probably best known for his adaptation of THE WILD PARTY and for writing the score of THE ADDAMS FAMILY, which recently opened on Broadway and stars Bebe Neuwirth and Nathan Lane. But before either show, Lippa ...
This weekend, New York audiences are in for a treat. Encores!, a concert series of rarely performed American musicals, is currently staging the experimental Stephen Sondheim/Arthur Laurents musical, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE. The show, which has ...
The path to becoming a Broadway composer, lyricist, or bookwriter isn't well-defined or easy; it takes a tremendous amount of talent, hard work, and luck. For RENT author Jonathan Larson, who wrote all three components of his musicals himself, ...
Tuesday, June 29 will mark the 100th birthday of composer and lyricist Frank Loesser. Over the course of his career, Loesser wrote over 700 songs and five Broadway musicals and contributed music and lyrics to dozens of Hollywood films.
A number of ...
