a musical in two ages

ANMT DEVELOPMENT: This show was developed as part of the ANMT Full Length Curriculum program in the 2007-08 season, was a STAGES 2008 Finalist, was part of the 2007-08 ANMT Concert Reading Series, and received a developmental production at the Secret Rose Theatre in the summer of 2009 (GLAAD Media Award Nomination), selected by Stephen Schwartz for the 2010 Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, and received a world premiere production at the NoHo Arts Center in the summer of 2010.

a frickin' musical

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A story of 'the ones nobody wanted'

ANMT DEVELOPMENT: This show was developed in the first collaboration between ANMT and the Drama Department at UC Irvine. After a series of workshops and staged readings in 2009 and 2010, including a run at NoHo Arts Center, AGING OUT was given a full production by UC Irvine in January 2011.

What would it take for you to believe in a miracle?

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a side splittin’ toe tappin’ gun totin’ musical!

ANMT DEVELOPMENT: Bonnie and Clyde first came to the Academy's attention at the 2005 Songwriters Showcase at the NAMT Festival in New York. ANMT then workshopped the piece and provided extension feedback and brokered a national coaliltion of producers interested in the piece. After a successful reading in New York and a huge success at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, the Academy presented Bonnie and Clyde in a concert reading at the Colony Theatre, followed by an all-day session with the authors.

The price of pixels just went up.

ANMT DEVELOPMENT: 2010 - Festival of New Musicals; concert production; UCIrvine. 2009 - Festival of New Musicals; workshop production; UCIrvine 2009 - Workshops with the Academy Repertory Company; ANMT

An Irish-American woman returns to the land of her ancestors, and finds herself "haunted" by the famed Black Pig.

ANMT DEVELOPMENT: Second Prize winner in ANMT's 2009 Search

In this ghost town,
the past always comes back to haunt you.

ANMT DEVELOPMENT: Ghost-s was developed as part of the Academy for New Musical Theatre's producer-driven initiative. In producer-driven projects, the staff at ANMT put together a creative team and help develop a musical for the specific needs of a particular producer, in exchange for a promise of a public staged reading of the completed show and the option of a first production. Ghost-s began as a 'commission' from the Lyric Theatre in Hollywood as an adaptation of Ibsen's Ghosts.
Staged Reading: Lyric Theatre, Hollywood, 2010
Concert Reading: STAGES New Musicals Festival, North Hollywood, 2011

Ex-billionaire Wall Street entrepreneur Frederick F. Freemarket is about to save the world's economy, make billions of dollars for his employees, and redeem his good name. What could possibly go wrong? This loving homage to the world of W.S. Gilbert , set to the music of Arthur Sullivan, is updated to the current stock market crisis.

ANMT DEVELOPMENT: First Prize - 2010 Search

A dead woman's ghost comes back from the grave to accuse her husband of her murder.

ANMT DEVELOPMENT: ASCAP/Disney 2005; Winner of 2009 ANMT Search

A loving (if slightly naughty) tribute to the musicals of yore.

ANMT DEVELOPMENT: Specil Merit 2008 Search

Would you do whatever Charlie asked?

ANMT DEVELOPMENT: Following developmental workshops at ANMT and UCI in 2010 and 2011, Manson's Girls was part of UCI's annual Festival of New Musicals in the spring of 2011, and was featured as part of ANMT's summer programming in 2012.

The story of a girl... or two.

ANMT DEVELOPMENT:

A cycle of ten short musicals, contrasting pairs of ordinary heroes -- then, and now.

ANMT DEVELOPMENT: The Academy developed Now and Then a Hero for the Colony Theatre using its classic model: idea, outline, 15-minute presentation and first draft. The Colony Theatre presented a public concert reading of the work. It was a STAGES semi-finalist in 2008. In 2010, a new draft was presented by the Montana Rep as part of the Missoula Colony Festival.

In the first Women's National Air Derby in 1929, fourteen brave pilots must prove that men don't have a corner on the sky.

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A small American town comes to terms with the aftermath of a devastating flood.

ANMT DEVELOPMENT: First Prize: 2008 Search for New Musicals

A fast paced musical comedy of errors, blending quick tempers, sharp wit, romance and the golden age of Hollywood, with a little magic.

ANMT DEVELOPMENT:

An evening of four one-act musicals based on classic American short stories by O.Henry, Hawthorne, Poe, Twain.

ANMT DEVELOPMENT: The Academy developed these shows for the Colony Theatre. Workshopped with the Academy Repertory Company. Featured at the Academy's 2008 Showcase.