THE SHOWGIRL of 52nd STREET selected for 3 musical festivals this summer

#1THE SHOWGIRL of 52nd STREET selected for 3 musical festivals this summer

THE SHOWGIRL of 52nd STREET, book & lyrics by Kleban Award winner Charles Leipart and music by John Kroner, was selected for 3 musical festivals this summer.


Kansas City * Chicago * Los Angeles


From Playbill.com

New Musicals Showgirl, Grouch's Daughter, Maccabeat!, I Come for Love Get Thousand Oaks Test

By Kenneth Jones
13 Jul 2007

Theater League, the organization responsible for touring Broadway presentations in a number of performing arts centers around the country, will introduce four new musicals at the first annual Thousand Oaks Festival of New Musicals in California.

The weekend event is patterned after the annual Theater League new musicals festival in Kansas City. In association with the Academy of New Musical Theatre (ANMT) and Cabrillo Music Theatre, the Festival will take place at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Aug. 25-26...



Chicago's STAGES Unveils Musicals Moon Shine!, Children of the Night, So Happy I Could Scream! and More

By Kenneth Jones
10 Jul 2007

STAGES 2007, Theatre Building Chicago's annual festival of new musicals in progress that are presented in concert-style readings, will offer seven emerging works Aug. 10-12.

Each musical gets viewed twice in the weekend fest, which is becoming regarded as a major regional showcase for new musicals — a must-see for fans and industry folk alike. (It gained national attention last year when a Windy City critic weighed in on the works in progress, raising the hackles of those who advocate the sanctity of incubators like the one at Theatre Building Chicago.)

"Now in its 14th season, STAGES focuses on the development of the material, the craft of writing and the talent of the performers," according to TBC.

The weekend will also feature a rare revival — indeed a "revised" revival, technically making it "eight" works-in-progress in the fest — of the Richard Rodgers-Sheldon Harnick-Sherman Yellen musical, Rex, about England's King Henry VIII. On Aug. 10, Harnick and Yellen will discuss the work, and the changes they made to it, in a Q&A with Bert Fink of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization.

The new musicals to be seen in concert readings at STAGES 2007 include:...


Earlier this summer SHOWGIRL was in the Kansas City Festival of New Musicals.
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