MATILDA performance license approx?

[aces25]

Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:52am

Anyone know when the MATILDA license will be available now that the show has closed? 

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 1/4/17 at 10:12am

The release is UNKNOWN

http://www.mtishows.com/future-releases

[QueenAlice]

Posted: 1/4/17 at 10:19am

Usually how it works is that first class rights extend to tours: initially a first class "production contract" tour - but also non Union tours as well. After that, usually a show is given "priority" licensing at larger professional regional theatres (The Muny, Sacramento Music Theatre, La Mirada Theatre as a few examples) and then the show is offered to non- professional / community theatres to license.  

I'd say its usually about three years after a show closes on Broadway that you start to see it begin to trickle down to locally produced amateur productions - but it really depends on the 'brand' and how the producers wish to control it.  Somewhere in the mix, the educational 'school production' rights are released --- now a days you often see school licensing being granted before non professional theatre licensing -- but again that's really a call on the producers' parts.

 

 

Updated On: 1/4/17 at 10:19 AM

[Tag]

Posted: 1/4/17 at 10:39am

^Although you could look at Mamma Mia for example which closed on Broadway in September '15, and then everyone was doing it in '16.

[QueenAlice]

Posted: 1/4/17 at 10:52am

Who is the "everyone" that was doing Mamma Mia?  I just looked at the MTI website and it looks like there are very few regional productions currently being licensed. That's probably because the show has never stopped touring

The other thing that plays into regional licensing is location.  If you are a theatre in the middle of North Dakota where there are no tours planned and no major regional theatres, you may be given non professional performance rights earlier.

[aces25]

Posted: 1/4/17 at 11:08am

I wish more groups would take a nod from Andrew Lloyd Webber and release the royalties to school groups. I don't think youth production deter professional ones - if anything, they enhance it as the schools would go see tours or professional productions. 

How do some groups attain Mamma Mia royalties when you can't even apply for them online? Not all the groups doing Mamma Mia right now are professional, some are very clearly community theatres. 

[QueenAlice]

Posted: 1/4/17 at 11:43am

The licensing houses have ongoing relationships with any long standing companies that regularly produce musical theatre (both professional and non professional).  When the licensing houses obtain a property, they strategize (sometimes with the authors or original producers) how they want to 'roll-out' a licensing platform. They take into account things like regional location, track record of the regional companies etc.  Taking these things into consideration, reps from the licensing house will often reach out directly to certain theatres to inquire if they would be interested in producing the work.  

[TheSassySam]

Posted: 1/4/17 at 12:31pm

disneybroadwayfan22 said: "The release is UNKNOWN

http://www.mtishows.com/future-releases

 

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It looks like this site hasn't been updated in a bit. 

Porchlight in Chicago will be doing Scottsboro Boys next month:  http://porchlightmusictheatre.org/the-scottsboro-boys

Paramount in Aurora, IL did Mamma Mia! in Fall 2016:  http://paramountaurora.com/events/mamma-mia/

[Tag]

Posted: 1/5/17 at 1:26am

Who is the "everyone" that was doing Mamma Mia?

Sorry I'm in Canada, and literally every regional theatre did Mamma Mia last year/this year.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 2/4/18 at 6:16pm

My regional theater is doing MATILDA next year (I screamed lol), so naturally it's starting to come out

[JennH]

Posted: 2/4/18 at 8:19pm

QueenAlice said: "Who is the "everyone" that was doing Mamma Mia? I just looked at the MTI website and it looks like there are very few regional productions currently being licensed. That's probably because the show has never stopped touring"

 

I don't trust the MTI site anymore in terms of the lists of upcoming productions of each show ever since it changed it's site format and design. There's always productions that seem to be missing or not added until right when that particular production opens that I find later. Yes, everyone is doing Mamma Mia, I've found at least 10 theaters auditioning for it this year thus far. And no, the tour is not running in the US anymore, there is a UK one I believe though. 

As for Matilda, come to think of it, I'm surprised the former tour didn't go non union...

 

[BroadwayMan5]

Posted: 2/4/18 at 11:55pm

I spoke to an MTI rep not too long ago about Matilda and while he couldn't be specific, he implied that it would become available for everyone to license in 2019