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A book is overrated in a musical… Now anyone who knows me (Nick Luckenbaugh, one of your new NMT bloggers) knows that I don't think that's true. In fact, I don't think enough emphasis is p…
Bringing a new musical to the stage for the first time is quite a bit like launching a rocket into space for the first time. You plan, you research, you work, you create, you revise, you wai…
On April 21st 2014, the New York musical theatre community saw an unprecedented event take place at the Dramatist Guild offices. Veteran, established, and aspiring musical theatre writers…
Welcome back to Lyric Lens! For the first edition back after a bit of a hiatus, I'll be looking at a song called "52," by Joe Iconis. This song is not yet for sale online, though a bunch of …
I've never been in a musical… unless you count my 8th grade stint in Teens in Tinseltown (it's real, look it up). I grew up playing guitar and listening to rock, pop, folk, soul, and jazz.…
Please climb aboard the nearest time machine and travel back to April 29, 1962. Â When you arrive, you find out that you’re throwing a dinner party for prominent musical theater com…
One week ago today, the cast of the recent Pulitzer Prize finalist Fun Home, along with its writers, Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, and Alison Bechdel, author of the musical's graphic novel s…
Hello there, Green Room readers! Happy to be back with "Song Spotlights" after a brief hiatus. Last time I was here, I spent a lot of time gushing about Natasha, Pierre… and my lingering f…
Artists are a community, an enormous community from infinitely different backgrounds and disciplines. It always makes me incredibly sad to see someone in this community question the legitima…
Holy balls. Holy fat, sweaty, icky, stinky, stinky, stinky balls… I was on a train for 3 days. I spent all 3 days wide awake… my total sleep count for all three days was 9 hours. I'm awe…
So, we all know how much time I spend tinkering around the internet " particularly, that vast vortex we all get sucked into known as YouTube. If you guys think I’m a YouTube junkie now…
Recently Playbill asked their Twitter followers who they would want most to play the King of Siam in the forthcoming Broadway revival of The King and I, and posted what one presumes were the…
This article originally appeared in the Nov/Dec 2011 issue of The Dramatist, the official magazine of The Dramatists Guild of America. In advance of the Guild’s upcoming anti-piracy aw…
As theatre people know far too well, all good things must come to an end. Today, I have to say goodbye to you, composers and screlters and writers and geeks of The Green Room. Thank you for …
Lately, I’ve been feeling like Versions needs to get on a happy kick " a lot of the songs I’ve been analyzing of late have leaned on the sadder side of the scale, so this time ar…
Last week marked the re-opening of The Apollo Theatre in the West End, nearly four months after it closed, following the roof collapse mid-show on December 19, 2013. The event shocked London…
#NMTvotw has been running for about 8 months now, and we’ve gone over a lot of tips. And if you’re reading them and learning from them, that’s great. However, they’re…
Before I dive into the topic of "belting," let me begin by saying that I (like many others) always appreciate the power of a singer or performer that can reach impossible pitches at impossib…
I had the privilege, recently, of seeing Ryan Scott Oliver and Hunter Foster's Jasper in Deadland. It was a great piece of writing, in words and music. Clever and funny. And it was performed…
What do Cabaret, Gypsy, Sweet Charity, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Jekyll and Hyde, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, The Life, RENT, Lippa's The Wild Party, Avenue Q, and Lys…
Being into musical theatre isn’t all that different from being into comic books. Everyone has their favorite Green Lantern (John Stewart) or Mama Rose (Patti LuPone), there’s alw…
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine invited me to join her for lunch with two friends of hers I didn't yet know. "They're great. They're musical theater people, too," she said.…
Last week, I talked about choosing a college for reasons other than “New York.” And this week, I’m continuing that to state that talent can come from all sorts of places. T…
In this series of blog posts, I've been having conversations with people involved in the development of new musicals in all different capacities. This week I spoke with Carmel Dean, the musi…
Broadway imports have often kept the West End alive, and in recent years have given London a refreshing wave of new musicals. Over the past year, celebrated hits such as Once and The Book of…
