NYMF alumns Brenda Machabach and David Mauk, writers of The Time Machine the Musical, share their advice on participating in musical theatre festivals.
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Musical Development:
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Broadway Bound Theatre Festival Puts Your Show on 42nd Street
The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival (which now accepts musicals) was created to teach playwrights to become self-producers at the festival level in the most economical way and develop new skill sets that will serve them in the future.
Musical Theater Festivals in Manhattan: A 2020 Update
Musical writers can take advantage of the crowd power and use festivals as a relatively economical way to reach an audience while preparing for the next stage of development. The gathering of artists also makes festival participation helpful for building a network for future projects.
Sacred Fools Theater Company Stages Adventurous New Works
Sacred Fools is a creative theater company that offers readings and shows at the Broadwater building at Santa Monica Blvd and Vine in the heart of Hollywood.
StarStruck in Florida: Open for New Family Musicals
StarStruck Academy and Theatre has several advantages for testing new musicals. They have an abundance of eager child actors in their training programs, a beautiful 202-seat theater space and plenty of rehearsal space.
How I Self Produced a Quality Staged Reading on the Cheap
Writer Brent Monahan shares tips on how to cost-effectively self produce a staged reading from his own experience with his new musical FABLE.
The Player’s Theatre Self-Production Residency
The Players Theatre is dedicated to helping original plays and musicals move onto an Off Broadway or New York run. Through mentoring and a theatre subsidy this program is meant to help creative teams self-produce their show.Â
Incubating New Musicals at the Madison New Works Lab
In the Madison New Works Lab, Mark Evan Chimsky and Zev Burrows learned how to work with a team and how that team responds to a musical work-in-progress.
Script and Score Diagnostic
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Use this helpful checklist to evaluate your own musical or analyze your favorite shows.