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Contemporary Musicals Set Outside of New York

Here are 10 contemporary, modern-day musicals set in US locations outside of New York.

44 Thoughts You Have While Preparing for a Musical Table Read

POV: You just finished a draft of the show you’re writing. Now it’s time to plan a musical table read, and we hear your inner monologue.

How Writers and Directors Work Together on New Musicals: An Interview with Ilana Ransom Toeplitz

Director Ilana Ransom Toeplitz generously shares her thoughts and experience on the process of working with writers on new musicals.

How Opening Numbers Reveal a World or Launch the Story

Carol de Giere and Stephen Schwartz discuss the importance (and challenge) of constructing successful opening numbers — and offer a few tips!

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.

Story Design: The 7 Plot Points

The 7 Plot Points are often used in creating narrative structure for novels, films and musicals. Use them to evaluate, refine and polish your script.

The Superobjective: Keeping Your Story on Track

It is the pursuit of a protagonist’s “grand goal” or superobjective that grabs us and keeps our attention. Stay on track and never lose focus of that goal!

NYMF Discusses Inventing an Original Story in Musical Theatre

The 2016 New York Musical Festival, in conjunction with ASCAP, featured a panel discussion, For the Love of Originality: How to Invent New Stories in Musical Theater. (And, how to interest producers and audiences.)