PLAYLIST: Musical Murderers
If you're anything like me, it's the demented things in life that fascinate you the most. One of those things for me, and for a lot of people, is killers. Many movies, books, and musicals ha…
If you're anything like me, it's the demented things in life that fascinate you the most. One of those things for me, and for a lot of people, is killers. Many movies, books, and musicals ha…
This September, NMT is putting a spotlight on its writers. Each day, we’ll be featuring one writer or writing team’s recommended audition songs and audition tips – and shar…
I'm going to state the obvious: I love me a good key change. Take, for example, Michael Jackson's "Man In the Mirror." I'm pretty sure that like every person alive knows this song, but just …
This September, NMT is putting a spotlight on its writers. Each day, we’ll be featuring one writer or writing team’s recommended audition songs and audition tips – and shar…
"When will you make an end?" These are the memorable words from the 1965 movie The Agony and the Ecstasy. They are the words of a beleaguered Pope Julius II – Rex Harrison, taking time…
This September, NMT is putting a spotlight on its writers. Each day, we’ll be featuring one writer or writing team’s recommended audition songs and audition tips – and shar…
Since my first post for the Green Room was all about duets for the ladies, it only seemed fair to flip the coin this week and round up the best-of-the-best male duets. What makes this collec…
This September, NMT is putting a spotlight on its writers. Each day, we’ll be featuring one writer or writing team’s recommended audition songs and audition tips – and shar…
For as long as I can remember, New York City has taken on a larger than life, magical and mysterious aura in my mind. People from all over the world, including myself, flock to this amazing …
This September, NMT is putting a spotlight on its writers. Each day, we’ll be featuring one writer or writing team’s recommended audition songs and audition tips – and shar…
(To begin this week, if you have not read the most recent article by Drew Gasparini and an archived favorite post by Georgia Stitt, do yourself a favor and read them " absorb them. There may…
This September, NMT is putting a spotlight on its writers. Each day, we’ll be featuring one writer or writing team’s recommended audition songs and audition tips – and shar…
I've tried to write a blog for NewMusicalTheatre.Com about four times now. The concept of jotting down my thoughts in an organized and public manner intrigues me, but every time I start I…
This September, NMT is putting a spotlight on its writers. Each day, we’ll be featuring one writer or writing team’s recommended audition songs and audition tips – and shar…
This week we're taking a quick break from letters to focus on some tips for auditioning. It's back to school time, so I'm in the mood for sharpened #2 pencils, sweaters, and lectures. Below,…
This September, NMT is putting a spotlight on its writers. Each day, we’ll be featuring one writer or writing team’s recommended audition songs and audition tips – and shar…
"I don't like to think of Nebraska as the middle of nowhere," she says with a laugh. Alisa Belflower is speaking to me from Lincoln, Nebraska. And if you were to draw a map of the musical th…
This September, NMT is putting a spotlight on its writers. Each day, we’ll be featuring one writer or writing team’s recommended audition songs and audition tips – and shar…
Hello New Musical Theatre Green Room readers! My name is Nikki Shah, and I am one of the new bloggers for this fall. I am incredibly excited to be writing about one of my passions, and I'd l…
This September, NMT is putting a spotlight on its writers. Each day, we’ll be featuring one writer or writing team’s recommended audition songs and audition tips – and shar…
The first show I saw after moving into my new Manhattan apartment was Fly By Night at Playwrights Horizons. After a week of unpacking, job hunting and bill paying the ONLY thing I missed abo…
This September, NMT is putting a spotlight on its writers. Each day, we’ll be featuring one writer or writing team’s recommended audition songs and audition tips – and shar…
I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I love the solo albums of Broadway stars. Solo albums fill my iTunes library and clog up my car's CD changer. I belt out songs from solo albums in…
This September, NMT is putting a spotlight on its writers. Each day, we’ll be featuring one writer or writing team’s recommended audition songs and audition tips – and shar…
Like a lot of theatre people I know, I grew up on the Rogers and Hammerstein classics my parents would play on movie nights: South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Carousel, not to mention Cinde…