Musicals

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February 4, 2019

What About Pierre?: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812

Contributor Katie Coryell shares 10 things you might not know about The Great Comet.
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September 12, 2017

Fun Home Is The Story Of Our Home

Heather Akers, partner at Iowa’s Giving Tree Theatre, finds her own home in FUN HOME.
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March 28, 2017

A Couple of Notes: Behind the Scenes with Samuel French’s Music Supervisor

Before you license a musical, there is a months-long (or even years-long) process to creating the score for your show – and we’re not just talking about when the composer creates the music.
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June 29, 2016

Tulips in the Desert

Have you ever tried to plant tulips in the Sahara desert? It’s quite similar to an attempt to stage a new musical in Russia.
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June 29, 2016

Travels to Moscow

What happens when an author writes a musical, and then 35 years later receives a call for it to be produced in Moscow? Magic, that’s what. Read more.
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April 26, 2016

We’ll Have The Grandest Garden Ever Seen

When Red Mountain Theatre Company decided to produce THE SECRET GARDEN, they didn’t fully understand the journey that their child actors would take on – or how they would blossom. Read more.
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March 9, 2016

Photo Journal: ELEGIES Concert at Birdland

Check out photos from a performance of Bill Russell’s ELEGIES at Birdland Jazz Club! The concert benefited Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
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June 3, 2015

Living on Avenue X

John Jiler and Ray Leslee, co-creators of Avenue X, an a cappella musical addressing racism through the lens of Black and Italian neighbors in Brooklyn in 1963, discuss the show’s enduring relevance.
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