One hundred and seventy years ago this month, Hans Christian Andersen wrote one of his most beloved stories.It was so beloved, in fact, that bookwriter-lyricist Anthony Drewe and composer George Stiles thought it would make an ideal ...
In a way, it’s The Producers and Les Miserables combined.At first glance, that may seem to be a strange way to describe Catch Me If You Can, the 2011 musical with a book by Ragtime’s Terrence McNally and a score by Hairspray's Marc Shaiman and ...
Kidz Theater Pilot Production of Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark KIDSLast Friday, we talked about the marvelous 40-minute musical MAGIC TREE HOUSE: DINOSAURS BEFORE DARK KIDS that Jenny Laird, Randy Courts and Will Osborne crafted from ...
Mary Pope Osborne, the esteemed children’s writer, was looking for an idea. What would be a good book for kids aged six-to-nine who were currently in grades one-to-four?Then inspiration hit. She’d write about a Magic Tree House where boys and ...
Last week, while reviewing Les Miserables School Edition, I suggested that producing the British mega-hit may lead to one unexpected benefit.It may be a logical successor to West Side Story in attracting boys into musical theater.I quoted Rhode ...
At the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta last January, I rubbed elbows with many high school drama directors – of whom I always asked the same question: “So what show are you doing next year?”Quite often I got the same answer: “Well, I’d ...
There have been thousands upon thousands of T-shirts made for hundreds upon hundreds of productions of Seussical. But each one for sale in this lobby has a unique logo in its upper right hand corner.
Music Theatre International founder Frank Loesser once wrote a song called “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” Now Music Theatre International and iTheatrics are asking middle school teachers a different question: “What Jr. musical areyou ...
Most assume that it’s nothing more than a feel-good, happy-go-lucky, fun-filled musical comedy. That novelist Amanda Brown even played on the expression “legally blind” to come up with her title – LEGALLY BLONDE – would suggest that any ...
Doesn’t the first word in the title Children of Eden imply that it’s the ideal musical for a Jr. edition?Not so fast. True, children are the ones for whom Jr. editions are made. They’re custom-tailored to what kids can do, with music ...
