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Trial and Error: The Hunt for Usable Musicals

Posted by NYMF on 10:49 am Oct 19th, 2007

New York Times, September 29, 2007

By Anne Midgette

Around the turn of this century, there was much talk of the new face of American musical theater: serious, boundary-defying works by the likes of Adam Guettel, Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael John LaChiusa. But it remains hard to get a musical developed and put on.

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Roll Model: Musical Theater Fest Packs a Mix of Songs & Styles

Posted by NYMF on 10:02 am Oct 19th, 2007

Newsday, September 15, 2007

By Frank Scheck

QUICK question: What do upcoming musicals inspired by such disparate sources as Jane Austen, Hanukkah, the Latin poems of Catullus, roller derby, Sherlock Holmes, the murder spree of Charlie Starkweather, Jack the Ripper, and the sci-fi movie “The Last Starfighter” have in common?

 

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NY Theater Fest Thinking Big

Posted by NYMF on 10:52 am Oct 19th, 2007

Variety, August 10, 2007

By Mark Blankenship

Now that it's grown up, the New York Musical Theater Festival is trying to grow out.

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