Article on Industrial Musicals
-- musicals written for corporate conventions to introduce new products or
energize a sales force, some written by major Broadway songwriters and
starring big names. A fascinating piece of American pop culture history.
Come
in My Mouth -- The Story of the Adult Musicals of the 70s
-- yes, it's true, there were a handful of overtly sexual musicals written
in the 70s and this article tells you all about them...
The
Music Theatre Research Project,
Catholic University of America, a project to study the history and
performance practices of America's music theater
The
Music Man Dictionary,
a remarkably comprehensive dictionary of all the crazy terms and phrases
used in the musical The Music Man
The
Guide to Musical Theatre,
a very cool, British-based guide to musicals, including song lists, plot
synopses, production history, etc.
Theatre.com,
a great resource for info on theatre across America
British
Musical Theatre, a
really great, comprehensive, rabidly researched site focusing on the
British musicals of the 1950s and 1960s
Musical Theatre Guild of Los Angeles
-- presenting an eclectic mix of old school and new
musicals
21st
Century Musicals
SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS
The New York Musical Theatre Festival
Festival of New American Musicals (Los Angeles)
The
National Music Theater Network
The
National Alliance for Musical Theatre
CLO/CMU
New Works Project,
encouraging the development of new musicals
Mercury
Musical Developments,
an organization for developing new musicals and musical theatre artists in
the UK
The International
Festival of Musical Theatre in Cardiff,
Wales
MusicalWriters.com
The
Musical Theatre Audition Website
OTHER SITES
Blue
Gobo, a site full of video clips from Broadway musicals, some from the
Tonys, Ed Sullivan, and other sources
The
website for Britain's only glossy magazine dedicated to international
musical theatre
A site dedicated to stage
musicals that have been made into movie musicals. Quite a list of films
included...
Yahoo's
Musical Theatre Page
has lots of musical theatre info and links
the
best place on the web for scripts and other great books on musical theatre
-- go through this link when you buy stuff and New Line gets a
commission...!
Producing and selling videos (and soon, DVDs) of alternative theatre from
around the country, including shows like Poona the Fuckdog (no
kidding...)
a
site listing performances, auditions, resumes, and job openings all over
the U.S.
TheatreHistory.com,
a really terrific site, with articles, reference materials, and pictures
about world theatre history.
On
the Purple Circuit,
the national gay and lesbian theatre network
Talkin'
Broadway
- articles
and discussion about all types of musical and dramatic theater including
Broadway history, cast recordings, interviews with actors, and more.
Heinemann
Publishing Theatre Books Website,
some of the best new books on theatre, published by Heinemann
Footlight
Records,
in NYC, a good place to get cast albums on LP.
Original
Cast Records,
a great record label with rare Broadway and off-Broadway cast recordings,
including The Baker’s Wife, Eating Raoul, The Goodbye Girl, In
Trousers, The Robber Bridegroom, The Secret Garden and other great
shows – plus the original St. Louis cast album of Out on Broadway.
Broadway
Man,
original Broadway theatre posters from the 1940s to the 1980s, including
14" x 22" window cards up to 4-foot by 7-foot
"three-sheet" subway posters.
Broadway
Archive, a
website selling dozens of videotapes of stage productions taped for TV,
from PBS, Studio 67, etc.
Musical
Theatre Lovers United
in San Francisco, a musical theatre appreciation organization that holds an
annual Stephen Sondheim birthday cabaret, and sells a very good video
series on the history of the Broadway musical.
York
Theatre Co.
in New
York, a great company producing only new musicals and a concert series of
older, lesser known musicals -- one of New York's true treasures. They also
made a name for themselves in the past by doing some big Broadway shows in
small, intimate productions to better showcase great material. Some of
their productions have included The Golden Apple, The Grass Harp,
Pacific Overtures, She Loves Me, Lost in the Stars,
Company, 110 in the Shade, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We
Roll Along, A Doll's Life and No Way To Treat A Lady.
TheatreMania
Productions, Inc.
Our good friends in Connecticut
American
Century Theatre
in Virginia
Signature
Theatre
in Washington, DC
Ovation,
The Arts Network
Music
Theatre International,
the licensing agent that handles most of the Sondheim musicals, plus dozens
of other classic shows (Guys and Dolls, Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof,,
etc.), as well as many special resources, like computer "Rehearscores,"
PR and marketing packages, Study Guides, logo and slide packages, Broadway
Jr. versions of classic shows for elementary and middle schools, and much
more.
Rodgers
& Hammerstein Theatre Library,
home to all the great Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals and all the Andrew
Lloyd Webber shows, plus all the Rodgers & Hart shows, Irving Berlin
shows, plus the work of several up-and-coming young Broadway composers like
Adam Guettel and John Bucchino. R&H also has additional resources
including Study Guides, concert versions, etc.
Theatrical
Rights Worldwide, the newest kid on the block, handling some
exciting new works...
Samuel
French, Inc.
licenses mostly plays but some great musicals including A New Brain,
Rocky Horror, Best Little Whorehouse, Chicago, Eating Raoul, Falsettos,
Grease, Grand Hotel, La Cage aux Folles, Nunsense, Whoop-De-Doo, Blood
Brothers, and others.
Dramatists
Play Service
licenses mostly plays, but also handles a few out-of-the-mainstream
musicals like Bat Boy, Bed and Sofa, Goblin Market, Splendora,
and all the musicals of Michael John LaChiusa (Hello Again, Marie
Christine, Wild Party), plus a few others you've never heard of...
Tams
Witmark Music Library
handles
the licensing for many classic musicals including Camelot, Hello Dolly,
Cabaret, My Fair Lady, Man of La Mancha, and others. (But beware --
they're sometimes very difficult to deal with...)
Other
Licensing Agents
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Links to all the major licensing agents, musical and non-musical (including
Dramatic Publishing, Baker's Plays, etc.), from the Musical Heaven website.
