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Broadway Musical Scripts
How to go about finding a producer/backer for a Broadway musical?
With no previous experience other than writing, acting and directing for straw hat theater, I have written a musical that I believe could be the next Broadway smash. Is there some serious way to farm out the script/concept to backers or to find a producer willing to entertain the script/concept?
Find out who is producing shows that seem to fit the genre you are going for, google them and do research on them, and send them the show with an amazing cover letter/music. They want the next best smash as much as you do – but they receive a LOT of unsolicited entries, so you need to make it shine.
Most musicals, however, take years to develop – so getting in touch with directors you’re interested in may spark some interest.
Acting & Music Tips : How to Write a Musical Script
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Godspell $6.49 Jesus was a pretty popular guy in New York in 1971; as the ersatz star of both Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar. If Superstar was a little dark, Godspell was positively frothy; and its portrayal of Jesus as a hippie clown was part of its goofy charm. Another part was Stephen Schwartz’s nifty score; a little naive and dated, but also as hummable as anything in history. Slap this in the CD player… |
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Mame (1966 Original Broadway Cast) $7.14 With her beguiling presence, Angela Lansbury belts out the playful lyrics of Jerry Herman’s 1966 musical, Mame, based on the hilarious and outrageous Patrick Dennis novel Auntie Mame. Lansbury plays the ribald flapper Mame, bucking her age and station to live her life as she pleases, with her young nephew Patrick in bewildered tow. Lansbury’s mature yet chipper singing voice is perfectly complemen… |
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Ragtime – The Musical (1998 Original Broadway Cast) $12.53 The epic sweep of Ragtime is captured in its opening prologue, a nine-minute kaleidoscope of fictional characters mingling with historical figures from the early 20th century as originally captured in E.L. Doctorow’s sprawling novel. As the story continues, we meet pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Brian Stokes Mitchell) and his child’s mother, Sarah (Audra McDonald), who has been taken in by a respec… |
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Annie [VHS] $4.51 Disney’s 1999 TV production of the classic 1977 musical Annie is remarkable for its casting of stage actors rather than ratings trump cards. Tony winners Audra McDonald (Grace), Alan Cumming (Rooster), and Kristin Chenoweth (Lily) join four-time nominee Victor Garber (Daddy Warbucks) and Les Misérables veteran Alicia Morton (Annie) to tell the tale of the Depression-era orphan who gets a taste of… |
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Studs Terkel’s Working (Broadway Theatre Archive) [VHS] $7.99 Steelworkers, waitresses, and parking garage attendants hardly make the stuff of the traditional Broadway musical. But their voices form the songs and monologues of this plotless paean to the American working stiff, inspired by the bestselling oral history by Studs Terkel. Adapted from the stage production by composer Stephen Schwartz, this 1982 American Playhouse production has a pleasingly… |
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Into the Woods $9.29 Fractured fairy tales of a darker hue provide the remarkable context for Into the Woods, which deconstructs the Brothers Grimm by way of Rod Serling. While the faces and names are familiar, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, and company inhabit a sylvan neighborhood in which witches and bakers are next-door neighbors, handsome princes from once-parallel fables are competitive (and equal… |
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Funny Girl $3.95 ONLY HER MOTHER BELIEVES FANNY CAN MAKE IT IN SHOW BUSINESS.WHEN SHE GETS HER FIRST BREAK AT KEENEY’S MUSIC HALL, HER HILARIOUS DEBUT AS A ROLLERSKATING CHORUS GIRL GETS HER HIRED ASA COMEDIENNE. A YEAR LATER, FANNY IS WORKING FOR FLORENZZIEGFELD IN HIS FAMOUS FOLLIES AND BRINGS THE HOUSE DOWN…. |
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Billy Elliot $6.30 A boy from a working class miner’s family secretly begins taking ballet classes.Genre: Feature Film-ComedyRating: RRelease Date: 4-MAR-2003Media Type: DVD… |
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The Book of Mormon: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical $12.24 The only official companion book to the Tony Award winner for Best Musical from the creators of South Park and the co-creator of Avenue Q. Features the complete script and song lyrics, with 4-color spot illustrations throughout, an original introduction by the creators, and a foreword by Mark Harris.The Book of Mormon, which follows a pair of mismatched Mormon boys sent on a mission to a place tha… |
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Broadway: The American Musical – A History Of Broadway $8.99 Broadway: The American Musical – A History Of Broadway |
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Tarzan – The Broadway Musical $8.99 Tarzan – The Broadway Musical |
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Broadway $4.49 Broadway |
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Broadway Rhythm (DVD) $19.95 Broadway producer Jonnie Demming is ready to out-razzle and out-dazzle ’em all with a new production that has everything – except the actress Jonnie knows is perfect for the lead. Future U.S. Senator George Murphy portrays Demming in a backstager drawn from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical Very Warm for May and co-starring Ginny Simms as the actress in Demming’s sights. But the film’s real story lies in its supporting acts: Tommy Dorsey leads the Big Band brass, Lena Horne sings an exotic Brazilian Boogie, Hazel Scott scorches the 88, the contortionist Ross Sisters defy human anatomy and Nancy Walker and Ben Blue add their clowning glory. Lots of romp and rhythm mark marvelous time in Broadway Rhythm! |
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She’s Back on Broadway (DVD) $19.95 There’s big ballyhoo on Broadway: Catherine Terris is back, thinking a Great White Way smasheroo will spark her declining movie career. The musical she’ll headline is a razzle-dazzler of warbling and wooing called Breakfast in Bed. An eager, talented cast is rehearsed and ready for some snappy showmanship. But the director, Catherine’s old flame, is in a snit. He still loves her. And he’s sure that once the rave reviews and box-office receipts roll in, she’ll depart for Hollywood, just as she did six years earlier. Virginia Mayo is the lovely she of She’s Back on Broadway, a back stager that co-stars ever-reliable song-and-dance man Gene Nelson. Don’t miss the trumpet-and-tap specialty by Condos and Brandow. Zowie! |
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On Broadway/On Broadway Vol. 2 $5.49 On Broadway/On Broadway Vol. 2 |
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Two Tickets To Broadway (Remastered) $19.95 Two tickets to Broadway will take you to…TV! One of the first films centered on the new medium is also a spirited throwback to ’30s musicals all about a determined young miss (in this case, Janet Leigh) with stars in her eyes and not much in her wallet who heads to New York in search of fame. Tony Martin, Gloria De Haven, Eddie Bracken and Ann Miller round out the cast of young talents hoping to make it big on the small screen. Busby Berkeley directs the splashy musical numbers; Rodgers and Hart, Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn and more Golden Age composers provide the songs, songs, songs, and vaudeville stars Joe Smith and Charles Dale deliver classic comedy as bickering deli owners. |
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Bing On Broadway $10.49 Bing On Broadway |
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Scars On Broadway $5.49 Scars On Broadway |