Monday, May 4, 2015
The hands-down greatest experience of my writing life was not in New York City. It was in the tiny town of Waterford, Connecticut. Waterford may not be a bustling metropolis, but it is somet…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 09:15AMFriday, March 20, 2015
After two installments chatting with the wonderful Cheryl Coons about the wonders of the Chicago theater community, I was all ready to move on and find musical theater magic somewhere else i…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:41AMWednesday, February 25, 2015
Last time, I spoke with writer Cheri Coons about the winding path of a busy writing career outside of New York. But I also wanted to get more of her perspective on the Chicago theater scene …
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:34AMFriday, February 13, 2015
“This is just a strange sidebar story that you probably won’t ever have time to include in your written piece…”—Okay, you have to realize that I am now obligated to share this stor…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:50AMFriday, January 30, 2015
In earlier installments of this blog, writers Daniel Tenney and Rob Gardner both referenced the challenge of finding a writing partner when you live outside of one of the major theater hubs…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 10:20AMWednesday, January 21, 2015
Would you like to hear something cool? Something exciting going on in the world of theater that you may not have heard about? Then meet Nan Barnett. “I am the executive director of the Nat…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:27AMWednesday, December 10, 2014
Let’s start with another flashback from Steve Fendrich: “In 1985, I visited this gentlemen who was a teacher in Longmont, Colorado, and his name was Bill Francoeur. He was the music teac…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:12AMWednesday, December 3, 2014
Let’s start with a flashback. This is Steve Fendrich: “So one time Bill Francoeur came to me and he said, I have this idea. He said, you know, we ought to put out a musical with a casset…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:44AMWednesday, November 12, 2014
“I’ve averaged about one show per year that I’ve written and produced. Plus one or two, here and there.” Let’s go ahead and stop there a moment. We all know that New York is the ca…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:27AMTuesday, October 28, 2014
In the last installment of this series, I got to talk with representatives from community theaters. Community theaters are a topic that has been particularly on my mind of late because my ad…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:24AMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Ok, let’s start with a refresher from our conversation with theater marketing expert Clay Mabbitt: Marketing has two parts. The first part is identifying who’s going to love what you’r…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:09AMMonday, September 29, 2014
There are some writers of the Old School (and I admit there was a time when this included me) who feel like self-promotion is a little gross. After all, those of us with real talent just nee…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:11AMWednesday, September 17, 2014
Meet Rob Gardner. He’s thirty-six. He lives in Phoenix, AZ. And he makes a living as a composer. “I just took a leap of faith about ten years ago, quit my day job, and it’s worked out.…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 12:00AMSunday, September 7, 2014
“I don’t like to think of Nebraska as the middle of nowhere,” she says with a laugh. Alisa Belflower is speaking to me from Lincoln, Nebraska. And if you were to draw a map of the musi…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:20AM 
