So You Think You Can Produce, Part 4: Make It Work
Everybody understands the importance of good acting and musicianship in musical theatre"without them, obviously the show isn't going to be very good, even if it's brilliantly written, compos…
Everybody understands the importance of good acting and musicianship in musical theatre"without them, obviously the show isn't going to be very good, even if it's brilliantly written, compos…
Having just spent a weekend rediscovering my city with guests, I'd like to return to the specifics of Chicago's musical theatre scene. Not everyone is in a position to produce for themselves…
You've got your cast, and now it's time for rehearsals. I hinted last time that we'd talk about schedules, but in fact, I'd like to move in a different direction. In brief, to sum up schedul…
Before we took our detour into producing specifically for festivals, I wrote about the ground work to do before mounting a show. At this point, if you followed my sage advice (and of course …
I'd like to step sideways from my last post to talk about something close to my mind and near to my heart at the moment, as The Chicago Musical Theatre Festival is midway through its perf…
As I mentioned in my first post, one of the greatest things about being a theatre professional in Chicago is that you can actually produce new work. There are enough reasonably-priced venues…
Hello there, fellow lovers (and writers, and producers, and attendees) of musical theatre! Greetings from the City of Broad Shoulders. It is my mission, in blogging for NMT, to bring a littl…