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Welcome 1 Lizzie Borden 13 Letter from the NAMT President 2 Play It Cool 15 Letter from the NAMT Executive Director 3 Red Clay 17 The Trouble With Doug 19 Festival Show Information Big Red Sun 5 NAMT Past Festival Shows 20 The Bowery Boys 7 NAMT Members 23 The Giver 9 NAMT Contributors 25 Heartbreakers 11 NAMT Sponsors 26 NAMT Festival Schedule Back Cover

ABOUT THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL

The National Alliance for , founded in 1985, is a national service organization dedicated exclusively to musical theatre. Our mission is to advance musical theatre by:

• Nurturing , development, production, and presentation of new and classic musicals

• Providing a forum for the sharing of resources and information relating to professional musical theatre through communications, networking and programming

• Advocating for the imagination, diversity and joy unique to musical theatre

Our 150 members, located throughout 35 states and abroad, are some of the leading producers of musical theatre in the world, and include , developmental companies, higher education programs, presenting organizations and individual producers.

MEMBERSHIP SNAPSHOT (as of August 20, 2010) Last season, the NAMT members collectively...

• Employed 15,500 people

• Staged over 16,000 performances attended by over 11 million people

• Entertained over 630,000 subscribers

• Provided education programs for over 1 million students and teachers

• Had operating budgets totaling nearly $500,000,000

• Performed in 240 facilities housing nearly 175,000 seats

See page 23 for a complete list of NAMT member organizations.

For more information on NAMT's history, programs and membership, please visit www.namt.org

To inquire about NAMT membership, please Membership Director Adam Grosswirth at 212-714-6668 x15 or [email protected].

NAMT is very grateful to the following organizations whose contributions support our mission to nurture the creation, development, and production of new musicals:

The Ann Palmer Foundation, ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund, BMI Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, The Dramatists Guild Fund, Friars Foundation, Jamie deRoy & friends, Kenneth and Marleen Alhadeff Charitable Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, State Council on the Arts, The Foundation, Stacey Mindich Productions, and The Shubert Foundation. www.namt.org Welcome To The National Alliance For Musical Theatre’s 1

Whether this is your first time with us or your 22nd, below is a guide to attending the Festival: from how the lines work to where to meet the writers. SCHEDULE: We present each musical on Thursday and once on Friday. You can find a copy of the schedule on the back cover of this program. Feel free to see whatever shows you choose, even if you didn’t register for that presentation. BADGES: Your badge designates you as a member of the Theatre Industry. It is important that your badge is worn at all times and is visible to the ushers. There are 4 badge colors: White—Theatre Industry Members Blue—NAMT Members Yellow—NAMT Donors Pink—This year’s writers THE LINES: There are 2 lines queuing up to enter the house: 1) White Badges and 2) Yellow/Blue Badges. The lines will forming 20 minutes prior to each presentation. The Yellow/Blue Badge holders will gain access to the house first, starting 10 minutes prior to the reading, followed by the White Badge holders. Each Stage has its own set of lines that are designated by signage so make sure you are in the right line. MEET THE WRITERS: There will be 30 minutes between each reading which is the perfect time to meet the writers at a special table just outside the theatre, fill out a “request for more information” card (which is handed out at the start of each reading and can be dropped off in a basket at the artist table), and mingle with your colleagues. But don’t go too far away because the next reading will start sooner than you think! OTHER THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND: • Access to New World Stages is only accessible from 50th Street. The 49th Street Stage Door will not be open to the public for the Festival. • Don’t forget your badge! Without a badge, you cannot gain access to the theatres. • Please turn off your cell phone during the readings. The use of recording devices is strictly prohibited. • Please exit to the Orchestra (lower) level after each reading. QUESTIONS? NAMT Board Members, Staff Members and Festival Selection Committee Members all have special ribbons on their name badges so feel free to approach any of us about NAMT, the Festival or the shows being presented. We are here to answer your questions and ensure that you have a great time while at our 22nd Annual Festival of New Musicals!

The Festival of New Musicals is supported in part by a generous award from the National Endowment for the Arts and by public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York’s 62 counties. 2 22ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS

FROM THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE’S PRESIDENT Welcome to our 22nd Annual Festival of New Musicals!

It is hard to believe that National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals has, in its first 22 years, introduced over 475 writers. And it is even harder to believe we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre! Our organization was formed with the idea that theatre producers can come together from across the country in order to collaborate, help each other, and find more ways to create and produce new musicals.

Our goals today remain the same, and we are proud that our Festival has helped so many writers reach their ultimate goal – full productions, including Thoroughly Modern Millie, , and more recently, Ordinary Days, Vanities, and See Rock City & Other Destinations.

We now are 150 member organizations strong. And our Festival is flourishing, thanks to the hard- NAMT staff, our Festival Committee, our contributors, and all of the industry folks who come here to help foster this art form that we love – musical theatre. Enjoy the shows!

Marilynn Sheldon President of National Alliance for Musical Theatre

Brett A. Bernardini Jeff Loeb NAMT Board of Directors The Spirit of Broadway Theater (CT) Broadway/L.A. (CA) NAMT Staff Marilynn Sheldon Kathy Evans Rick Boynton Nick Manos The (WA), President Executive Director Shakespeare Theater (IL) Theater of the Stars (GA) Randy Adams Adam Grosswirth Victoria Bussert Sharon Maroney Junkyard Dog Productions (NY), Membership Director Baldwin-Wallace (OH) The Broadway Rose Theatre (OR) Vice President Branden Huldeen Kathy Evans R. James Mercer Stacey Mindich New Works Director National Alliance for Pittsburgh CLO (PA) Stacey Mindich Productions, LLC (NY), Musical Theatre (NY) Bethany Basile Vice President Dennis M. Reagan Office Coordinator Donna Lynn Hilton The MUNY (MO) Mark D. Sylvester (CT) Walnut Street Theatre (PA), Treasurer Steve Stettler Robb Hunt Weston Playhouse Theatre (VT) Harriet Schlader Village Theatre (WA) Woodminster Summer Musicals (CA), Marsha S. Brooks Secretary Michael A. Jenkins Brooks & Distler (NY), Legal Counsel Summer Musicals (TX) 22ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS 3

FROM THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dear Friends,

How can 30 chairs and 24 music stands in 2 theatres sing so many stories in just 2 days? It’s not a riddle…it’s a fact. It’s because of the amazingly talented artists who dedicate hours to the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and our Festival of New Musicals. They help our writers tell their stories in front of this powerhouse audience of the movers and shakers in the theatre world. The goal that unites us all is the desire for new…new voices, new stories, and new collaborations that will happen over the course of these two days at New World Stages.

We can’t thank our sponsors and donors enough. NAMT relies solely on contributions to produce this Festival. We don’t ask the writers to pay for anything and don’t charge admission. We send special thanks to National Endowment for the Arts, who gave us our largest donation ever -- $85,000.

If you are a theatre producer and are not a NAMT member, come join us! You can participate in our year-round discussion on creating, developing, and producing new musicals, and you may be eligible to receive grants from our National Fund for New Musicals. If you want to help these writers and be a part of the national conversation on the most exciting collaborative art form in America, in my humble opinion, talk to us!

Kathy Evans Executive Director

Mark Fleischer Victoria Bussert Amy Schott 2010 Festival of Adirondack Theatre Festival (NY) Baldwin Wallace College (OH), Stage 2 Company Manager New Musicals Committee Casey Hushion Emerita Chair Marvin Avila North Carolina Theatre (NC) Festival Assistant Donna Lynn Hilton Kevin Moore The Human Race Theatre Company (OH), Goodspeed Musicals (CT), Co-Chair Carey McCray Michael Potsic Emeritus Chair CAP21 (NY) Assistant to the General Manager Steve Stettler Weston Playhouse Theatre Company Dan Murphy Festival Staff John O’Connor (VT), Co-Chair The Broadway Rose Theatre (OR) Program Intern Branden Huldeen Pamela Adams Raymond Sage Artistic Director David Margolin Lawson (NJ) Pennsylvania Centre Stage (PA) Sound Supervisor Lisa Dozier Kate Galvin Heather Schmucker General Manager Drew Padrutt Walnut Street Theatre (PA) American Music Theatre Project (IL) Festival Logo Designer Alan Filderman Elisbeth Challener Douglas Young Casting Consultant Adam Hitt (TX) North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Festival Program Designer Naomi Anhorn Arts Center (NC) Nick Demos Stage 3 Company Manager Demos Bizar Entertainment (NY)

Special Thanks The amazing staff at New World Stages; our rehearsal spaces Ripley Grier, Pearl Studios and Studios; Alvin J. Bart & Sons for printing this beautiful program; Landshark! CD Duplication & Design for creating all of the Festival demos; Carroll Music and PRG for supplying equipment; and to the NAMT Consultants working to make each reading memorable. NEXT ATO THRILLING NORMALFEB NEW 22–MAR MUSICAL 13 2010 -11 THE MUSICAL H APR 5–APR 24 ININ THETAW HEIGHTSSEP 28–OCT 17 ONY SEASON OF A TONYT AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL MAY 12–JUNE 5 THE MUSICAL! GUYS & DOLLS M NOV 26–DEC 30 RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S A CHRISTMASCHRIST STORY: JULY 8–AUG 6 VANITIES OKLAHOMA! A NEW MUSICAL FEB 4–APR 3 MUSICALS Presented at ACT– A Contemporary Theatre SHAREOF IN OUR THE

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2010-2011 SEASON CO-SPONSORS: 22ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS BIG RED SUN 5

JOHN JILER’s plays have been seen coast to coast, from the O’ Neill to the Kennedy Center to Seattle Rep. Jiler received both the Big Red Sun Award and the Kleban Librettists’ Award for his musical Avenue X, and the Weissberger Prize from Book & Lyrics by John Jiler New Dramatists for his play Sour Springs. Literary Music by works include, Sleeping With The Mayor (a New GENRE: American Musical Drama York Times “Most Notable Book’) and Dark Wind, CAST SIZE: 7 called “a classic” by the Village Voice. His current projects are a one-man show, Explicit Vows (\The Flea Theatre), and two new FOR MORE INFORMATION ON BIG RED SUN, plays; Channel, in development with Labyrinth Theatre, and Sirocco, at The PLEASE CONTACT , SQUARE ARTS & FILMS, Actor’s Studio. (212) 253-0333 x36, www.washingtonsquarearts.com, [email protected] GEORGIA STITT wrote the musicals The Water, Sing Me A Happy Song and Mosaic, and is A teenage boy unearths a dark family secret as he searches for his long-lost currently writing Hello! My Baby with Cheri father through the bewildering landscape of post-WWII America…where Steinkellner and Devil In A Blue Dress with Walter innocence has vanished, and simple melodies have been replaced by the Mosley. Her , This Ordinary Thursday, and dizzying energy of jazz and the birth of rock-and-roll. her song cycle, Alphabet City Cycle, are both available from PSClassics and iTunes. Georgia Big Red Sun was the winner of the Harold has published several choral pieces and wrote two Arlen Award from ASCAP, and has been songs for the MTV movie The American Mall. She developed at ASCAP Musical Theatre is represented on the solo of Susan Egan, Workshop and TheatreWorks Silicon , , , Kevin Odekirk and Valley, and was presented at Oklahoma Caroline Sheen. She has music degrees from Vanderbilt and NYU and City University. currently lives in . www.georgiastitt.com.

NAMT CONSULTANTS: Steve Stettler, Weston Playhouse Theatre Co.(VT), Pamela Adams, Paper Mill Playhouse (NJ)

22ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS THE BOWERY BOYS 7

DAVID H. BELL His work in , where he is associated with the Marriott Theatre (over 30 Productions) and the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, has earned him 35 nominations (winning 10) and 2 After Dark Awards. The Bowery Boys David served as the Artistic Director of Historic Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., and Associate Artistic Director of ’s Book & Lyrics by David H. Bell . David’s work has earned him 4 Carbonall Music by Jeremy Cohen nominations (Florida), a Dramalogue Award (L.A), 5 AJC Co-creator: Aaron Thielen Awards (Atlanta), an Atlanta Circle of Dramatic Critics Award, an Olivier Nomination, 2 National Endowment Awards, 3 nominations (winning 1), The Mac and Bistro Awards (NYC), and several National and International writing awards GENRE: A Rags to Riches Story for creating . He has worked , Off Broadway, , , Berlin, Ideal Cast Size: 10+ boys with Ensemble , National and International tours, The Kennedy Center, Long Wharf Theatre, and, done the Atlanta sequence of the closing ceremonies of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE BOWERY BOYS, David is currently a professor of Music Theatre at Northwestern University. PLEASE CONTACT AARON THIELEN, JEREMY COHEN As a composer, arranger, music director [email protected], (847) 465-1326 and actor, he has worked at the Kennedy Center, Alliance Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, New A musical that follows the journey of Dick, a York’s La MaMa Theatre and the New York Music Theatre streetwise kid, and his gang of bootblacks trying Festival, among others. Most recently, Jeremy served as the to “Make It Through The Day.” The backdrop of musician for the Kennedy Center’s production of Master Class. the show is Five Points New York in 1884. Dick Jeremy is a native of New York and a proud graduate of rescues a young English girl, who through a series Northwestern University. www.jeremy-cohen.com. of unfortunate circumstances, is abandoned by her AARON THIELEN is the Artistic Director for the Marriott devious step-father and his compatriots. Despite Theatre. He recently wrote a musical adaptation of For The being faced with many dangerous adventures, the Boys; the popular 1991 Fox film starring . This new two never lose hope of realizing a brighter future. musical will get its world premiere at the Marriott Theatre in The show follows Dick and the boys trying to August of 2011. Joining forces with Michael Mahler (NAMT protect Jenny and reunite her with the only family 2009 author), Aaron also wrote a new musical titled Hero, which had a staged reading at The Marriott and is slated to be she has left, her Grandfather. Loosely based on the presented there in summer of 2012. He co-wrote and Artistic writings of American writer Horatio Alger, this musical deals with the great distance Directed the Marriott Theatre’s Jeff Award winning hit The All between the American mythology and the much darker and more ominous truth about Night Strut- A Fascinating Rhythm. Associated with the Marriott life in the tenements of the time. Theatre since 1995, he was a featured actor in more than 20 productions, choreographed Marriott’s hit production of Forever Plaid, and was instrumental in facilitating the theatre’s The Bowery Boys was created and developed by the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, expansion in 2001. , who provided multiple table reads and, in the summer of 2008, sponsored a three week workshop at the American Music Theatre Project at Northwestern NAMT CONSULTANTS: Kevin Moore, The Human Race Theatre Co. (OH) University. The show had a full production at the Marriott Theatre in December 2008 Dan Murphy, The Broadway Rose Theatre Co. (OR) and was nominated for three Jeff Awards including Best New Work.

22ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS THE GIVER 9

NATHAN CHRISTENSEN is a bookwriter/ lyricist from Bartlesville, OK. He received his BA in theater from BYU, and an MFA in musical theater The Giver writing from NYU. With composer Scott Murphy, Based on the novel by Lois Lowry he has a received a Award, a Book & Lyrics by Nathan Christensen Richard Rodgers Award, a Award and Music by Scott Murphy a Dramatists Guild Fellowship. Their first musical, Broadcast, had a reading at Playwrights Horizons, GENRE: Musical Drama and was produced at the University of Nebraska at . Nathan lives in IDEAL CAST SIZE: 7 plus Ensemble Tucson, AZ, where he studied entrepreneurship at the University of . FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE GIVER, He teaches playwriting, is a theater critic for Tucson Weekly and works as PLEASE CONTACT WILLIAM CRAVER AT PARADIGM a freelance writer. [email protected], (212) 897-6400 SCOTT MURPHY received his MFA in musical 12-year-old Jonas lives in a perfect world, without pain, conflict or theatre writing from NYU in 2004. He is currently loneliness. But after being assigned to carry the memories of life before writing music and lyrics for Meanwhile…on “Sameness,” an ability learned from a mysterious man called the Giver, the other side of Mount Vesuvius, a musical Jonas must choose between his perfect community and a world that contains commissioned by Yale Rep, with book by Jay Reiss, both beauty and pain. as well as songs for Magnus, a feature film. With Nathan Christensen, Scott is currently writing music The Giver was given a two-week for a new work for The Old Globe. In 2005, Scott developmental workshop by was selected by to receive the Theatreworks/USA in 2006, followed Marian Seldes/ award from the by an additional week of developmental Theatre Hall of Fame. With Nathan Christensen, he received the Richard work in 2007. CAP21 sponsored a series Rogers award, the Jonathan Larson award, and the 2004 Dramatist Guild of table readings in 2008 and 2009, Fellowship. Scott works as a teaching artist for . followed by a concert reading in 2009. NAMT CONSULTANTS: Kate Galvin, Walnut Street Theatre (PA) Raymond Sage, Pennsylvania Centre Stage (PA)

22ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS HEARTBREAKERS 11

ROBERT CARY is co-author of the book and lyrics for Flashdance (West End 2010, UK National Tour, 2008-9); lyricist and co-author of the book for Palm Beach, written Heartbreakers with longtime collaborators Ben Feldman and David Gursky (introduced at NAMT and produced at , Book by Robert Cary & Benjamin Feldman directed by Des McAnuff); co-author with Ben Feldman of Music by David Gursky Inventing Avi (Off-Bway, 2009); and director of the feature Lyrics by Robert Cary films Ira and Abby, Save Me, Anything But Love. Upcoming

projects include Sharp Dressed Man, Stax, and the feature Based on the MGM motion picture written by Robert Dunn and Paul Guay & Stephen Mazur By Special Arrangement with MGM On Stage, Darcie Denkert film My Owner’s Wedding, written with Jonathan Tolins. and Dean Stolber BENJAMIN FELDMAN wrote Danny and Faye (produced GENRE: Musical Comedy w/Tovah Feldshuh), and co-wrote NAMT Festival 2001 show IDEAL CAST SIZE: 8 principals plus ensemble Palm Beach. Also an Entertainment Attorney -- clients from Rabbit Hole (upcoming, w/Nicole Kidman) to FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HEARTBREAKERS, (B’way, winner Best Musical Tony Award), Ars Nova, and PLEASE CONTACT SUSAN WEAVING AT WILLIAM MORRIS ENDEAVOR AT many theaters, producers and artists in television, theater [email protected], (212) 903-1170 and film. Published in the CTI Guide to Producing. Producer credits: Mae West’s Sex, Trouble in Paradise and The Stand In on stage; Film: The Cutting Room, Another Gay Movie, Sexy female con artist Max Connor Another Gay Sequel and The . Yale grad. Boards: marries eligible bachelors, refuses them The Hourglass Group, the Chase Brock Experience. sex, and then discovers them in bed with DAVID GURSKY is the composer of Palm Beach (NAMT a younger woman—leading to hefty Festival 2001, La Jolla Playhouse 2005, directed by Des annulment settlements. But the “other McAnuff). Film: Ira & Abby. In addition to his composing work, woman” is actually Max’s daughter David has conducted the Broadway productions of Finian’s Page, who’s in on the con. Then Page Rainbow, White Christmas, , Young Frankenstein, breaks the cardinal rule: she falls in love. Jane Eyre, and Dame Edna: The Royal Tour. Television: Wonder Pets. Pianist: many NYC shows, Radio City, several Encores! productions, The Kennedy Center Honors, and three original This is the premiere of Heartbreakers. Broadway cast recordings. Education: B.A. Yale College.

NAMT CONSULTANTS: Nick Demos, Demos/Bizar Entertainment (NY) Douglas Young, North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center (NC)

22ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS LIZZIE BORDEN 13

STEVEN CHESLIK-DEMEYER has worked as a writer, composer, and filmmaker for three decades. Through the and ’90s in New York, he wrote and performed music in several experimental productions, including adaptations of Frankenstein and The Lizzie Borden Scarlet Letter. From 1992 to 2002, he wrote and performed with Music by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Alan Stevens Hewitt the neo-vaudeville queer country duo, Y’all, which performed in Lyrics by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Tim Maner coffeehouses, churches, and clubs across the U.S. and in Europe Book and Additional Music by Tim Maner and appeared on MTV and Comedy Central. Steven made a Conceived by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Tim Maner documentary about the final years of Y’all, Life in a Box, which premiered in the International Film Festival in 2005. SHOW GENRE: Rock Musical ALAN STEVENS HEWITT Spring Awakening—Bass (Orig. CAST SIZE: 4 women B’way Prod. & 1st Natl Tour); Everyday Rapture—Bass (Second Stage); Lizzie Borden—Composer, Musical Director, FOR MORE INFORMATION ON LIZZIE BORDEN, Orchestrator, Bass, Piano (Living Theatre); Brecht’s Baal— CONTACT TIM MANER, [email protected], Composer, Musical Director, Piano, Guitar (Looking Glass www.lizziebordentheshow.com Theatre); The Signal Corps (myspace.com/thesignalcorps); Big Mess /Orchestra—Bass (bigmessorchestra. A rock show retelling of the bloody legend of America’s first and favorite com); The Low Road (myspace.com/thelowroad). BM in axe-wielding double-murderess and Victorian hometown girl, Lizzie Borden. Composition from Mannes/The New School where he studied Featuring four fierce rocker girls and a live band, this driving musical reveals with Robert Cuckson. ASH is originally from Philly and lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. [email protected] why Lizzie took up that axe and how she became an American folk hero. TIM MANER has written, directed, musical directed and An early version of Lizzie Borden was produced over 20 original music/theater works including seen at the Ohio Theatre, produced by Frankenstein, with composer Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer; The Hawthorne Project, a trilogy of multi-layered multi-media Tiny Mythic Theatre Company, followed events adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s three American by a full production at HERE. In 2006, novels, with writer/adaptor Elizabeth Banks; and The with the encouragement and support Project, a trilogy of new wave , with composers of producers Hillary Richard and Peter Matthew Pierce and Fred ho and writer Ruth Margraff. He is a McCabe, the piece was re-visited, founding member of the critically acclaimed Tiny Mythic Theatre Company and the award- winning arts center HERE. With them, his theatrical producing/presenting history spanned workshopped and expanded into a full- hundreds of productions over 10 years. length two-act musical which premiered at the Living Theatre in 2009 and was NAMT CONSULTANTS: Victoria Bussert, Baldwin Wallace University (OH) nominated for three Drama Desk Awards. Sean Cercone, Chicago Muse (IL)

22ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS PLAY IT COOL 15

MARTIN CASELLA Plays: The Irish Curse (Off Broadway, London, Edinburgh, , FringeNYC- Outstanding Playwriting Award); Scituate, George Bush Goes To Hell, Play It Cool Grand Junction, Desert Fire, Beautiful Dreamer, Paydirt, Mates (L.A. Weekly, Drama-Logue Awards). Musicals: Saint Heaven, Paper Moon (NAMT Festival 1995), Happy Holidays, Taking Conceived by Larry Dean Harris Care of Mrs. Carroll, DOO-DAH!. Screenplays: One Night Book by Martin Casella & Larry Dean Harris Stand. Upcoming: Free Money¸ musical about the invention Lyrics by Mark Winkler of credit cards; Miss Maude, a play about photographer Music by Phillip Swann Eugene Smith; Tom’s Dad, a film for director Lasse Hallstrom starring Patrick Dempsey; and Additional Music by Jim Andron, Michael Cruz, Marilyn Harris, film Busted Jesus Comix. Taught playwriting at Cal Arts and High School in Emilio Palame, Joe Pasquale and Larry Steelman NYC. WGA, Dramatists Guild, SAG and AEA.

GENRE: Jazz Musical LARRY DEAN HARRIS is the Los Angeles Regional CAST SIZE: 5 Representative of the Dramatists Guild of America, a founding member of Playwrights 6 and a long-term board member of FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PLAY IT COOL, Celebration Theatre, where Play It Cool premiered: earning CONTACT SHARON ROSEN (COMMERCIAL PRODUCER) (646)-554-5566 him an Ovation Award nomination for Best World Premiere [email protected], www.playitcoolmusical.com Musical. He is also an LA Weekly Award nominee for Best Playwriting for his drama Bible Stories. Other plays Everyone’s got a secret at Mary’s Hideaway, an underground nightclub in include Like an Old Song (starring Sammy Williams) and The Prodigal Father (starring Max Gail). Harris is currently sexy, sultry, repressive 1953 Hollywood. Inspired by film noir and driven by performing excerpts from his upcoming solo piece Witness a sizzling jazz score, this story of five very ambitious people is about finding to the Bizarre. the courage to be who you are. You just need to… Play It Cool. PHILLIP SWANN is the composer of The People vs. Friar Laurence, The Man Who Killed (nominated Play It Cool was first presented as for three Jeff awards), and DeLEARious (2009 Garland Award a full production at the Celebration winner for Best New Score). Other musicals include In a Booth Theatre (nominated for numerous at Chasen’s, Trombone, ’s Fools- The Musical and awards including a GLAAD Award), Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits. A former staff songwriter and producer for DreamWorks, Swann’s songs have been heard on television, followed by readings at the Zipper film and have been recorded by such artists as Clay Aiken, Lee Theatre, Snapple Theatre and the York Ann Womack, Blake Shelton and Lee Greenwood. He lives in Los Theatre. The 2008 production at the Angeles with his wife, theatre educator, Amanda Swann. New York Musical Theatre Festival was MARK WINKLER is a platinum award winning singer/ nominated for a GLAAD Award and lyricist who has had over 150 of his songs recorded by such NYMF Awards. artists as Dianne Reeves, Lea Salonga and . He is the co-writer of the musical review Naked Boys Singing! in its 11th year playing Off Broadway. He is the creator/co- writer of Too Old for the Chorus which is now being published by Samuel French and he is the co-writer/bookwriter of the musical Bark! which is now touring the country. His CD of original jazz songs Till I Get It Right was named one of the best CDs of 2009 by “Jazz Times Magazine”.

NAMT CONSULTANTS: Heather Schmucker, American Musical Theatre Project at Northwestern University (IL) Sue Frost, Junkyard Dog Productions (NY)

22ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS RED CLAY 17

SCOTT ETHIER has written music for The Third Miracle (with Jeff Hughes and Richard Vetere) and Raw Impressions’s Dreams This Way. His Red Clay concert music has been featured on American Public Radio’s Performance Today and performed Music by Scott Ethier Book & Lyrics by Jeff Hughes by VocalEssence, the Cape Ann Symphony, and the Macon Symphony orchestra (where he GENRE: Musical Drama was composer-in-residence). His choral piece, IDEAL CAST SIZE: 12 plus chorus A Mother’s Carol (Clay Zambo, lyrics), will be published by Boosey & Hawkes later this year. He has been a Dramatists FOR MORE INFORMATION ON RED CLAY, Guild Musical Theatre Fellow, a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative CONTACT JEFF HUGHES, (201) 889-2059, [email protected] Arts, a member of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop, and a recipient of the or Scott Ethier, [email protected] 917.804.8359 American Composers Forum’s Continental Harmony grant. Set in the six months leading up to Rosa Parks’ historic ride on a Montgomery JEFF HUGHES was the recipient of the 2009 bus, Red Clay uses a new jazz and gospel-infused score to tell the story of Richard Rodgers Award for Red Clay. He is the the ordinary Americans who changed this nation in extraordinary ways. author of the plays Shore Points, A Good Tavern and In the Jersey City Moonlight, which will receive Red Clay was the recipient of the its world premiere in June 2011. He is a former 2009 Richard Rodgers Award and member of the BMI Workshop and was a Dramatists received a co-produced workshop Guild Fellow in 2005-2006. He is the writer of with Theatre in the Park and DaBearsBlog.com, currently under the auspices of Playwrights Horizons in the fall of the Chicago Tribune. He is from Kearny, . that year. It had a staged reading this August as part of TheatreWorks NAMT CONSULTANTS: Carey McCray, CAP21 (NY) Silicon Valley’s New Works Festival. Kent Nicholson, Playwrights Horizons (NY)

22ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS THE TROUBLE WITH DOUG 19

WILL ARONSON (book & music) is the composer My Scary Girl, winner of last year’s Outstanding New Musical award at NYMF. My Scary Girl also The Trouble With Doug earned Best Small Stage Musical at Korea’s 2009 Music by Will Aronson, Lyrics by Daniel Maté, Musical Awards, after a five-month limited run in Book by Will Aronson & Daniel Maté. Seoul. Other work includes music for Mary Testa’s Sleepless Variations and ’s Songs GENRE: Contemporary Comedy with a Surreal Twist of Innocence and Experience, as well as vocal CAST SIZE: 5 arrangements for the upcoming Finn/Lapine musical Little Miss Sunshine. Will is the recipient of a Fulbright grant, an ASCAP Loewe Scholarship, and FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE TROUBLE WITH DOUG, CONTACT WILL ARONSON, [email protected] a Baryshnikov Fellowship; he holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an 203-848-7532 M.F.A. from Tisch/NYU.

The Trouble With Doug is a contemporary comedic reimagining of DANIEL MATÉ (book & lyrics) He is also the Kafka’s Metamorphosis in which a happy, healthy young man transforms composer-lyricist and bookwriter for The Longing inexplicably into a giant talking slug. Thrust together awkwardly under the and the Short Of It (Barrington Stage Company, same roof, Doug, his family, and his fiancée all struggle to understand and 2009, William Finn dir.; ASCAP Foundation respond to this strangest of crises. Musical Theatre Workshop, 2010, Stephen Schwartz dir.) Daniel’s work as a composer A staged reading of The Trouble With was included in the York Theatre’s NEO (‘New, Doug was presented at Goodspeed Emerging, Outstanding’) Concert. He runs a Musicals’ Festival of New Artists in successful custom gift song service (www.startspreadingthemuse.com) and January 2008. CAP 21’s Professional teaches songwriting to young people. Daniel received a 2010 Jonathan Theatre Company presented a public Larson Foundation Grant for music and lyrics. He lives near Sunset Park, reading in November 2008 and a Brooklyn, home to many charming slugs. www.danielmate.com workshop production in June 2009. Originally Produced at CAP21/THE NAMT CONSULTANTS: Matt Schicker, East of Doheny (NY) SHOP. Elisbeth Challener, ZACH Theatre (TX)

The Old Globe produces more than 15 productions each year including musicals, new plays, classics and a renowned Shakespeare Festival.

This year, the musicals Whisper House ( and Kyle Jarrow) and the directed and the 7 Hoods The Cast of Photo by Craig Schwartz (, and ) had their world premieres on the Globe stage.

Next up is our annual production of Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! and the upcoming, NAMT developed Jane Austen’s EMMA – A Musical Romantic Comedy.

The Old Globe is commited to producing and presenting the best in musical theatre.

Louis G. Spisto, Executive Producer David Poe and Holly Brook in Whisper House. Photo by Craig Schwartz

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Junkyard Of The Country Palace Festival Of New Musicals Manuel Mandel & Michael Sahl S. Grennan, K. Santen, M. Duff & C. Coons 1999 Rhythm Ranch Tycoon The Big Bang Past Festival Shows Hal Hackady & Fred Stark Luc Plamondon, Michel Berger & Jed Feuer & Boyd Graham Ruthless! Star Birth Of The Boom Joel Paley & Melvin Laird Dale Wasserman, Bill Francoeur & Scott Deturk Thomas Jones Ii & Keyth Lee 1989–2009 Some Sweet Day The Boswell Sisters Project Don Jones, Mac Pirkle, John O’Neal & Si Kahn 1995 Stuart Ross & Mark Hampton 1989 Enter The Guardsman Eliot Ness…In Cleveland 1992 Scott Wentworth, Craig Bohmler & Marion Peter Ullian & Robert Lindsey Nassif Alias Jimmy Valentine Adler Heading East Jack Wrangler, Bob Haber & Hal Hackady Another Kind Of Hero Lezley Steele & E.A. Alexander Joseph And Mary Robert Lee & Leon Ko Angelina Mark St. Germain & Randy Courts Honk! Barry Kleinbort Eleanor Jonathan Bolt, Thomas Tierney & John Forster Love Comics George Stiles & Anthony Drewe Backstage With Warren G. Sarah Schlesinger & David Evans In That Valley Elmer Lee Kline, Terry Waldo & Lou Carter Heartbeats Amanda Mcbroom, Gerald Sternbach & Paper Moon Richard Oberacker & Steven Minning Blanco Michele Brourman Martin Casella, Larry Grossman & Ellen The Princess And The Black-Eyed Pea Will Holtzman, Skip Kennon & Michael Korie Fitzhugh Josephine Karole Foreman & Andrew Chukerman Geech: The Moosical Ernest Kinoy & Walter Marks Paramour Summer Of ‘42 Jerry Bittle & Angelo Badalamenti Joe Masteroff & Howard Marren The Library Hunter Foster & David Kirshenbaum Kiss Me Quick Before The Lava Reaches Sarah Knapp & Steven M. Alper The Three Musketeers The Village George Siles, Paul Leigh & Peter Raby S. Hayes & P. Ekstrom Lunch 1996 Rick Hawkins, Steve Dorff & John Bettis The Last Musical Comedy Children Of Eden Tony Lang & Arthur Siegel Mikado, Inc. & Stephen Schwartz 2000 Jane Waterhouse, Robert Johanson, Albert Dodsworth Little Ham Evans & Glen Kelly The Ark Dan Owens, Judd Woldin & Richard Enquist Stephen Cole & Jeffrey Saver Kevin Kelly & Michael Mclean New Things To Feel Bad About Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Never Or Now (A.K.A. Catch Me If I Fall) Paul James & Ben Mason Convenience Barbara Schottenfeld David Levy, Leslie Eberhard & Phil Hall Gregg Coffin Fragrant Harbour The Odyssey Of Anna In Red Pumps Dave Wollert & David Shapiro Cupid & Psyche Dean Barrett & Ed Linderman Sean Hartley & Jihwan Kim Smiling Through Kudzu That Pig Of A Molette Ivan Menchell Far From The Madding Crowd & Thomas Z. Shepard Jack Herrick, Doug Marlette & Bland Simpson Barbara Campbell & Gary Schocker Smoky Mountain Suite Mirette The Real Life Story Of Johnny Defacto George S. Clinton & Sherry Landrum Elizabeth Diggs, Harvey Schmidt & Tom Jones Glimmerglass Douglas Post Jonathan Bolt, Douglas Cohen & Ted Drachman Swamp Gas And Shallow Feelings The Perfect 36 S. Strother, J.E. Williams & R. Buck Laura Harrington, Mel Marvin & Mac Pirkle Hot And Sweet Barbara Schottenfeld 1990 They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Thoroughly Modern Millie Nagle Jackson & Robert Sprayberry Richard Morris & Dick Scanlan Joe! Boxes Dan Lipton & David Rossmer Eric Saltzman & Michael Sahl Tiananmen: Freedom In The Square Fred Burch & Willie Fong Young Liberty Smith Captains Courageous 1997 Adam Abraham, Eric R. Cohen, Marc Madnick Patrick Cook & Frederick Freyer About Face & Michael Weiner Denning (A.K.A. Murder On Broadway) 1993 David Arthur & Jeffrey Lodin Lizzie Borden Bryan Leys & James Campodonico Brimstone 4 A.M. Boogie Blues Christopher McGovern & Amy Powers Finale! Mary Bracken Phillips & Paddy Meegan Marsha Myers & Jim Owen Mandela Bob Ost Do-Wop Love Heart Land Steven Fisher First Comes Love Ronald Wyche & Herbert Rawlings Jr. Darrah Cloud & Kim Sherman Diane Seymour, Alison Brewster & Amanda Elmer Gantry The Molly Maguires George John Bishop, Mel Marvin & Robert Satuloff William Strempek & Sid Cherry 2001 Goose! Beyond The Nursery Actor, Lawyer, Indian Chief Good Sports Ophelia’s Cotillion David H. Bell & Craig Carnelia Scott Evans, Austin Tichenor & Mark Frawley Susan Rice & Elmo Terry-Morgan & Clarice Laverne Juba Thompson Great Expectations Johnny Pye And The Foolkiller John Jakes & Mel Marvin Wendy Lamb & Russell Walden Randy Courts & Mark St. Germain Songs For A New World Love Is Spoken Here I Sent A Letter To My Love Jacquelyn Reinach & Stanley Ralph Ross Jungle Queen Debutante Jeffrey Sweet & Melissa Sean S. O’Donnell & Thomas Tierney Twist Of Fate Quality Street Lissa Levin & Ron Abel One Red Flower: Letters From ‘Nam Lee Goldsmith & Roger Anderson Mating Habits Of The Urban Mammal Paris Barclay M. Leeds, B. Lasser & P. Gordon Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus David Kirshenbaum & Myles Mcdonnell Making Tracks Welly Yang, Brian R. Yorkey & Woody Pak 1991 Milton Granger The Adventures Of The Mystery Of The Dancing Princesses Sayonara Allan Leicht & Glenn Paxton 1998 Alan Zachary & Michael Weiner William Luce, George Fischoff & Hy Gilbert Barrio Babies Book Of James Palm Beach The Three Musketeers Luis Santeiro & Fernando Rivas Scott Warrender & B.J. Douglas Robert Cary, Benjamin Feldman & David Warner Crocker & Gregg Opelka Blackbirds Of Broadway Gursky Columbus Twist David Coffman & Marion J. Caffey Yvonne Steely & J. Ben Tarver The Screams Of Kitty Genovese Eugene Lee, Tena Clark & Gary Prim The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds David Simpatico & Will Todd Complaining Well Her Chameleon Skin Jack Helbig & Mark Hollman Ug Kirsten Childs Jim Geoghan, Rick Rhodes & Vivian Rhodes Conrack 1994 Dorian When The Rains Come Granville Burgess, Anne Croswell & Lee Abyssinia Richard Gleaves Pockriss James Racheff & Ted Kociolek Ann Mortifee, David Feinstein & Edward King Island Christmas Henderson Ghost Dance After The Fair Deborah Baley Brevoort & David Friedman Jeff Sheppard & Michael Wright Stephen Cole & Matthew Ward O. Henry’s Lovers Gunmetal Blues The Gig Joe Dipietro & Michael Valenti 2002 Scott Wentworth, Craig Bohmler & Marion Douglas J. Cohen Ducks & Lovers Adler On Borrowed Time Peter Gootkind & Marci Goltsman Lust John Clifton, Bruce Peyton & William F. Brown Hurry! Hurry! Hollywood! The Heather Brothers The Enchanted Cottage Bruce Newberg & Sam Harris Urban Myths Thomas Edward West, Kim Oler & Alison Oedipus, Private Eye John Bucchino & James D. Waedekin & Hubbard 22ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS FESTIVAL HISTORY 21

Lil Budda Emma Stephanie Jones & Janice Lower Paul Gordan Recent Festival Successes Romeo & Juliet: The Musical Jerry Christmas , Jerome Korman & Matthew & Daniel Goldfarb Here are a few of our shows from the past few years that have gone on to Bennett Julian Po productions around the country. Running Man Andrew Barrett & Ira Antelis Diedre Murray, Cornelius Eady, One Step Forward Thorstein Veblen’s Theory Of The Leslie Arden, Berni Stapelton & Timothy French Leisure Class Piece Charles Leipart & Richard B. Evans Scott Alan & Tara Smith Sunfish 2003 Michael L. Cooper & Hyeyoung Kim The Ambition Bird Vanities Matthew Sheridan Jack Heifner & David Kirshenbaum Ballad Of Little Pinks , Marion Adler & Connie Grappo 2007 Harold & Maude The Break Up Notebook: The Lesbian Musical Tom Jones, Joseph Thalken

Patricia Cotter & Lori Scarlett Photo by Joan Marcus Princesses Photo by Joan Marcus Casey At The Bat Bill & Cheri Steinkellner, & VANITIES, A NEW MUSICAL ORDINARY DAYS Tom Child & Gordon Goodwin Matthew Wilder The King Sarah, Plain & Tall Randy Rogel & Kirby Ward Julia Jordan, Nell Benjamin & Laurence O’Keefe Kingdom Aaron Jafferis & Ian Williams Swing Shift David Armstrong, Michael Rafter & Mark The Story Of My Life Waldrop Neil Bartram & Brian Hill Two Queens, One Castle Tell Me (Fk.A. The Chocolate Tree) Jevetta Steele, Thomas W. Jones Ii, J.D. Steele Marshall Pailet & A.D. Penedo & William S. Hubbard Tinyard Hill Was Mark Allen & Tommy Newman Barry Kleinbort & Joseph Thalken Writing Arthur 2004 David Austin Photo by Stewart Edmonds Camille Claudel 2008 Photo by Diane Sobolewski & Nan Knighton Barnstormer BAND GEEKS! BARNSTORMER The Drowsy Chaperone Cheryl L. Davis & Douglas J. Cohen Don Mckellar, , & Beatsville Glenn Slater & Wendy Leigh Wilf Flight Of The Lawnchair Man The Cuban And The Redhead Robert Lindsey Nassif & Peter Ullian Robert Bartley & Danny Whitman The Girl In The Frame The Legend Of Stagecoach Mary Jeremy Desmon Thomas Mizer & Curtis Moore A Good Man Ordinary Days Philip S. Goodman & Ray Leslee Adam Gwon Langston In Pamela’s First Musical Kent Gash, Walter Marks & Wendy Wasserstein, & David Striking 12 Zippel Brendan Milburn, Rachel Sheinkin & Valerie See Rock City And Other Destinations Vagoda Adam Mathias & Brad Alexander Photo by Kevin Sprague Winesburg, Ohio Photo by Carol Rosegg The Yellow Wood Andre Pluess, Ben Sussman, Eric Rosen & Michelle Elliott & Danny Larson THE MEMORY SHOW SEE ROCK CITY & OTHER DESTINATIONS Jessica Thebus 2005 2009 Vanities (Fest ‘06) last season Off Broadway at Second Stage Theatre; Ordinary Ace Band Geeks! Days (Fest ’08) last season Off Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company; Richard Oberacker & Robert Taylor Mark Allen, Gaby Alter, Gordon Greenberg & Barnstormer (Fest ’08) last season at Red Mountain Theatre Co. (AL); See Rock Tommy Newman Caraboo Princess Of Javasu City & Other Destinations (Fest ’08) this summer Off Broadway at The Transport , Beth Blatt & Jenny Giering Factory Girls Group; The Memory Show (Fest ’09) this summer at Barrington Stage Co. (MA); Creighton Irons & Sean Mahoney The Funkentine Rapture Band Geeks! (Fest ’09) last season at Goodspeed Musicals (CT). Lee Summers & Ben Blake Hostage Song Clay McLeod Chapman & Kyle Jarrow I Love You Because Joshua Salzman & Ryan Cunningham How Can You Run With A Shell On Your Back? A Little Princess Michael Mahler & Alan Schmuckler Brian Crawley & Andrew Lippa The Memory Show (F.K.A. Memory Is Plus, more productions this season... Meet John Doe The Mother Of All Wisdom) Andrew Gerle & Eddie Sugarman Sara Cooper & Zach Redler Based On The Film By Dangerous Beauty (Fest ‘06) Liberty Smith (Fest ‘00) Iron Curtain will be produced next year at will be seen this season at Ford’s Party Come Here! Susan DiLallo, Peter Mills & Stephen Weiner David Kishenbaum & Daniel Goldfarb Pasadena Playhouse (CA) Theatre (DC) It Shoulda Been You River’s End Barbara Anselmi & Brian Hargrove Cheryl Coons & Chuck Larkin Jane Austen’s Emma (Fest ‘06) Ripper (Fest ‘09) Ripper will be produced next year at will be presented next season at Duane Nelson 2006 The Old Globe (CA) Broadway Rose Theatre Co. (OR) Dangerous Beauty Iron Curtain (Fest ‘09) and many more… Jeannine Dominy, Amanda Mcbroom & Michele Brourman will be seen this season at We are proud of all of the over 225 The Village Theatre (WA) shows we have presented since 1989! Emmy® Award Winning Tony® Award Nominated

A Musical for the Entire Family! National Tour Starts August 2011

For tour booking contact L. Glenn Poppleton at 212.840.4393 22ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS NAMT MEMBERS 23

East of Doheny (New York, NY) Pennsylvania Centre Stage (University Park, PA) FCLO Music Theatre (Fullerton, CA) Perfect Pitch Musicals Ltd (London, UK) NAMT MEMBERS Fiddlehead Theatre Company (Dedham, MA) Phoenix Entertainment (Frederick, MD) Flat Rock Playhouse - the State Theatre of North Carolina Pittsburgh CLO (Pittsburgh, PA) as of September 21, 2010 (Flat Rock, NC) Pittsburgh Musical Theater (Pittsburgh, PA) Florida State University College of Music - Music Theatre Playing Pretend (New York, NY) 1113 Productions, Inc. (Marina Del Rey, CA) Program (Tallahassee, FL) Playwrights Horizons, Inc. (New York, NY) 2Entertain (Falkenberg, ) Ford’s Theatre (Washington, DC) Chicago (Chicago, IL) 321 Theatrical Management (New York, NY) Bud Franks (, TX) (New York, NY) Moon (San Francisco, CA) Goodspeed Musicals (East Haddam, CT) The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival (New The 5th Avenue Theatre (Seattle, WA) Gorgeous Entertainment Inc. (New York, NY) York, NY) Academy for New Musical Theatre (North Hollywood, CA) Charles Gray (Pittsburgh, PA) R and R Productions, Inc./Standing O, Inc. (Penngrove, CA) Act II Playhouse (Ambler, PA) The Hartt School - Theatre Division, University of Hartford Rainbow Stage (, , ) (Hartford, CT) Actors Cabaret of Eugene (Eugene, OR) Reagle Music Theatre of Greater (Waltham, MA) HoriPro (Tokyo, ) Adirondack Theatre Festival (Glens Falls, NY) Red Mountain Theatre Company (, AL) The Human Race Theatre Company (Dayton, OH) Allen, Judith (Charleston, SC) Relevant Theatricals, LLC (Culver City, CA) International Broadway Productions (Boca Raton, FL) (Houston, TX) ReVision Theatre (The Genesius Guild, Inc.) (Asbury Park, Junkyard Dog Productions (New York, NY) Amas Musical Theatre (New York, NY) NJ) La Jolla Playhouse (La Jolla, CA) Arizona Theatre Company (Tucson, AZ) Royal & Derngate (, UK) Lark Play Development Center (New York, NY) Artpark and Company (Lewiston, NY) Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (Glasgow, UK) Las Positas College (Livermore, CA) ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop (New York, NY) Seacoast Repertory Theatre (Portsmouth, NH) Light Opera Works (Evanston, IL) AWA Touring (New York, NY) SenovvA, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA) The Little Theatre On The Square (Sullivan, IL) Baldwin Wallace College Conservatory of Music (Berea, Sharon Carr Associates, Ltd. (New York, NY) OH) The Lyric Stage Company of Boston (Boston, MA) Slater, Stewart (San Jose, CA) Ball State University -- Department of Theatre and Dance Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, OK) The Spirit of Broadway Theater (Norwich, CT) (Muncie, IN) M2 Consulting (San Jose, CA) Stacey Mindich Productions, LLC. (New York, NY) Leland Ball (New York, NY) Maine State Music Theatre (Brunswick, ME) Stage Aurora Theatrical Company, Inc. (Jacksonville, FL) Barrington Stage Company (Pittsfield, MA) Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Inc (Jupiter, FL) Tacoma Musical Playhouse (Tacoma, WA) Berlind, Roger (New York, NY) Margot Astrachan Production (New York, NY) Temple Theaters (Philadelphia, PA) BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (New York, Marriott Theatre (Lincolnshire, IL) NY) Theater Latté Da (Minneapolis, MN) McCoy Rigby Entertainment (Yorba Linda, CA) The Boston Conservatory (Boston, MA) Theater of the Stars (Atlanta, GA) Mercury Musical Developments (East Sussex, UK) Boston Music Theatre Project at Suffolk University (Boston, Theatre Under The Stars (Houston, TX) MA) Millikin University, Department of Theatre and Dance TheatreWorks (Menlo Park, CA) (Decatur, IL) Brigham Young University (Provo, UT) Town Square Productions (New York, NY) Municipal Theatre Association of St. Louis (The MUNY) (St. The Broadway Rose Theatre (Tigard, OR) Louis, MO) University of Cincinnati, Department of Musical Theatre Broadway/L.A. (Los Angeles, CA) (Cincinnati, OH) Music Theatre of Wichita (Wichita, KS) Brooks & Distler, Attorneys at Law (New York, NY) University of Montana - College of Visual and Performing Musical Mondays Theatre Lab, Inc. (New York, NY) Arts (Missoula, MT) Cabrillo Music Theatre (Thousand Oaks, CA) Musical Theatre West (Long Beach, CA) University of Northern Colorado - School of Theatre Arts Conservatory of the Arts/Musical Theatre National Alliance For Musical Theatre (New York, NY) and Dance (Greeley, CO) University (Laguna Beach, CA) NETworks Presentations (Columbia, MD) Uptown Players (Dallas, TX) California Musical Theatre (Music Circus, Broadway Sacramento & Cosmopolitan Cabaret) (Sacramento, CA) New York Theatre Barn (New York, NY) Utah Festival Opera Company (Logan, UT) California State University, Fullerton (Fullerton, CA) North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center V.J. Colonna Productions, Inc. (Miami Beach, FL) (Charlotte, NC) CAP21 - Collaborative Arts Project 21 (New York, NY) Van Hill Entertainment (Stamford, CT) North Carolina Theatre (Raleigh, NC) Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles, CA) Village Theatre (Issaquah, WA) Northwestern University, American Music Theatre Project Charlie Fink (Vienna, VA) Vineyard Theatre (New York, NY) and Music Theatre Project (Evanston, IL) Chicago Muse (Chicago, IL) Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, PA) NYU, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Chicago, IL) Development (New York, NY) Weitzenhoffer Department of Musical Theatre, University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) The Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre (Coeur d’Alene, ID) NYU, Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (New York, NY) West Virginia Public Theatre (Morgantown, WV) Collaborations Limited (Centerport, NY) Ogunquit Playhouse (Ogunquit, ME) Western Stage (Salinas, CA) Cumberland County Playhouse (Crossville, TN) The Old Globe (, CA) Weston Playhouse Theatre Company (Weston, VT) Dallas Summer Musicals (Dallas, TX) Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (St. Paul, MN) Woodminster Summer Musicals (Oakland, CA) Dallas Theater Center (Dallas, TX) Ostrow, Stuart (Houston, TX) Wright State University Department of Theatre, Dance & Dancap Productions Inc. (, Ontario, Canada) Motion Pictures (Dayton, OH) P2 Creations LLC (New York, NY) The Danish Academy of Musical Theatre/Uterus ZACH Theatre (Austin, TX) (Fredericia, Denmark) Pace New Musicals (New York, NY) Demos Bizar Entertainment (New York, NY) Pack The House Productions (Germantown, MD) Derby Dinner Playhouse (Clarksville, IN) Paper Mill Playhouse (Millburn, NJ)

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NAMT CONTRIBUTORS We thank the following individuals, government agencies, organizations and foundations for supporting the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and our mission to nurture the development and production of new musicals. This listing represents contributions from October 1, 2009 to October 1, 2010. $50,000+ National Endowment for the Arts $10,000 to $49,999 Ann Palmer Foundation Doris Duke Kenneth and Stacey Mindich Productions Charitable Foundation Marleen Alhadeff DuBose and Dorothy The Shubert Foundation Heyward Memorial Fund Charitable Foundation $2,500 to $9,999 ASCAP Foundation Dallas Summer Musicals The Rodgers & Theatre Communications Irving Caesar Fund Hammerstein Foundation Group New York State Council On the Arts $1,000 to $2,499 The 5th Avenue Theatre The Dramatists Guild Fund Friars Foundation North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center BMI Foundation Edward and Thea Lawton Jamie deRoy & friends Foundation, in honor of Mark D. Sylvester Dennis Reagan $500–$999 Gene Bayliss Tom Hulce Deborah & Monte Stavis Theatrical Rights Worldwide C&S International Brokers R. James Mercer Theatre League Third Coast Creative Kathy Evans Sound Insight TheatreWorks Larry Toppall Up to $499 Tracy Aron Steven Fock Lapine Group Inc. Amanda Pekoe Alice Belflower Fraydun Foundation Liza Lerner Dennis M. Reagan Chris Bensinger Barbara and Buddy Freitag Amanda Lipitz Lois Rosen Maren Berthelsen Paul Garman Pamela Lloyd Brian Saliman John Bianci Miguel Gonzalez Walter Marks Joshua Sherman Victoria Bussert Goodspeed Musicals Sharon Maroney Dale Smith Somat Publishing Ltd. Anna Marie Castegnetta Mark Grayson Jody Martini Lauren Stevens Virginia Criste Susan Gurman Stephanie P. McClelland Tony Stimac Jonathan Dodge Brian Hargrove Ann McNamee Susan Gurman Agency, LLC Dodger Properties HHC Marketing Ina Meibach Tribe Entertainment Group Li Dun Robb Hunt Roy Miller Tuacahn Center for the Arts Dan Egan Hugh Hysell Kevin Moore Scott A. Warrender Daniel Fields Ivy Sweet Productions Matt Murphy Barbara Whitman Sean Flahaven Ginger Karren Annette Niemtzow Theresa Wozunk 26 FESTIVAL SPONSORS 22ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS NAMT SPONSORSHIP We come together for this celebration of new musicals thanks in large part to the sponsors of the NAMT Fall Conference and 22nd Annual Festival of New Musicals

NAMT Platinum Sponsor ($10,000)

NAMT Gold Sponsor ($5,000)

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Staff for New World Stages

Executive Director Beverley D. Mac Keen Production Manager Jameson Croasdale Director of Programming Michael Coco Bookkeeper Joan Mitchell Director of Finance Rainard Rachele Office Manager Jackie LaVanway Box Office Treasurer Kenneth L. Burrows Assistant Box Office Treasurers Rob Fortier & Michael O’Neill Director of Operations Rebecca Nichols Ticket Seller G. Michael Rohrer House Manager Colleen Harris Events Coordinator Philip Wilson Events Manager Jennifer Jones Press Representatives David Gersten & Associates Bar Manager Erin Fehr De Palma Group Sales www.BestofOffBroadway.com Production Manager Zane Enloe 1-877-OFF-IS-IN (1-877-633-4746)

NEW WORLD STAGES is the renowned performing arts complex in the heart of the theatre district. Constructed on the site of lively Worldwide Plaza, it has five theatres ranging in size from 199 to 499 seats complemented by thousands of square feet dedicated to audience and artist services. New World Stages is part of Stage Entertainment, the international entertainment group that produces live entertainment for an international audience. www.newworldstages.com Production Manager Jameson Croasdale Bookkeeper Joan Mitchell Office Manager Jackie LaVanway Assistant Box Office Treasurers Rob Fortier & Michael O’Neill Ticket Seller G. Michael Rohrer Events Coordinator Philip Wilson Press Representatives David Gersten & Associates Group Sales www.BestofOffBroadway.com 1-877-OFF-IS-IN (1-877-633-4746) New World Stages: 240 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10019

THURSDAY, October 21 STAGE 3 STAGE 2 10am – 11am Check-in/Registration 11:00am - 11:45am HEARTBREAKERS BIG RED SUN 12:15pm - 1:00pm THE GIVER PLAY IT COOL 1:00pm - 2:00pm lunch 2:15pm – 3:15pm Songwriters Showcase xxxx 3:45pm - 4:30pm RED CLAY LIZZIE BORDEN 5:00pm - 5:45pm THE BOWERY BOYS THE TROUBLE WITH DOUG

FRIDAY, October 22 STAGE 2 STAGE 3 11:00am - 11:45am PLAY IT COOL THE GIVER 12:15pm - 1:00pm THE TROUBLE WITH DOUG THE BOWERY BOYS 1:00pm - 2:15pm lunch 2:30pm - 3:15pm LIZZIE BORDEN RED CLAY 3:45pm - 4:30pm BIG RED SUN HEARTBREAKERS

Followed by FESTIVAL CLOSING PARTY at Pigalle (790 8th Ave. at 48th St.). Co-Sponsored by Pittsburgh CLO and The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization. Only Premiere Pass Holders (Blue and Yellow Badges) are allowed entry.

About the Festival of New Musicals The purpose of the Festival of New Musicals is to create a nurturing environment for discovery, development and advancement of the musical theatre art form. The National Alliance for Musical Theatre seeks to do this with a focus on quality, diversity, and new voice. The objectives and goals of the Festival are to: • Showcase new musicals that are diverse in ethnicity, subject matter, style, and concept • Encourage future productions of new musicals • Promote new work and new voices • Nurture composers, lyricists, and book writers • Stimulate networking opportunities for NAMT Members and theatre professionals • Provide a forum to spark new collaborations and venture.

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