MTI Launches Musical Finder Tool

Want to see a musical but have no idea what's playing in your city? Music Theatre International (MTI, one of the largest theatrical licensing agencies in the country) has announced the creation of The MTI Musical Finder - a new tool for theatre enthusiasts to search for MTI musicals playing near their city or region.

The MTI Musical Finder is an interactive mapping program that lets users search for an upcoming MTI show based on geographic location or a set of performance dates. This feature helps promote MTI's customers' productions on a broad platform, yet another way MTI facilitates every aspect of the production process, from choosing a title to rehearsing to production elements to promoting and selling tickets to the show.

MTI has made the Musical Finder application available on their licensing website www.mtishows.com, as well as on their professional networking site www.mtishowspace.com. The MTI Musical Finder appears as a dynamic map on each of MTI's show pages where users can refine their search using different criteria:

http://www.mtishowspace.com/productions/

"What's great about the MTI Musical Finder is it shows not only local community and school productions but professional productions in any region as well, provided that they are MTI-licensed shows," says Drew Cohen, President of MTI. "We are excited that, in addition to providing information for consumers, MTI Musical Finder  is such a great user-friendly resource available for our licensees, teachers and community theatres."

Music Theatre International is one of the world's leading theatrical licensing agencies, protecting the rights and legacies of composers, lyricists and book writers. MTI's core business is issuing licenses, scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to schools as well as amateur and professional theatres across the globe.

With over 300 classic and contemporary show titles from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and London's West End, MTI shows have been performed by 60,000 theatrical organizations in the US and in over 60 countries worldwide.

MTI has long been a pioneer in offering time and money-saving production and promotional resources to its customers. Thousands of theatres have benefitted from tools like OrchExtra® - an easy to use "virtual orchestra" providing pit bands the missing instruments need to realize the full score, and RehearScore®Plus - a computer program that plays every note of the Piano / Conductor score during the rehearsal period.