NewMusicalTheatre.com Adds Jeremy Schonfeld’s Sheet Music Catalogue

NewMusicalTheatre.com, the first website ever exclusively devoted to selling sheet music by musical theater writers, adds Jeremy Schonfeld's sheet music catalogue today.

The e-commerce site already sells sheet music written by Nick Blaemire (Glory Days), Adam Gwon (Ordinary Days), Joe Iconis (The Black Suits, The Plant that Ate the Dirty Socks, Things to Ruin), Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk (Henry & Mudge, Tales from the Bad Years, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown), Ryan Scott Oliver (Darling, Mrs. Sharp, Rated RSO), Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dogfight, Edges). Adding Jeremy Schonfeld to the site marks the beginning of a new phase at NewMusicalTheatre.com, wherein a new writer will be added every week leading up to a launch concert in April.

Jeremy Schonfeld is a singer/songwriter/composer/lyricist. His catalogue includes songs from his album and upcoming musical 37 Notebooks, and Drift, most recently seen in North Carolina's "Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy" and won "Best Show of 2009" from Triangle Arts and Entertainment and "Best Original Music" from Indy Week. Other works include Home, It Happened One Christmas, and songs for the film Clear Blue Tuesday. For more information about Schonfeld: http://www.jeremyschonfeld.com.

"In order for musical theatre to keep evolving, it is crucial that new voices be heard, developed, and nurtured. Some of the most memorable and critically acclaimed productions of the recent past have been created by "new" musical theatre writers: RENT, Avenue Q, Spring Awakening, [title of show], The Drowsy Chaperone, In the Heights...to name a few. I am glad to support a forum that showcases writers just a few steps away from their big break!" says Sutton Foster (Young Frankenstein, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Drowsy Chaperone). The up-and-coming writers represented on NewMusicalTheatre.com have netted many of the prizes and laurels available to young writers in the theater community. Among them, they've won four Jonathan Larson awards, two Ed Kleban awards, two Rodgers awards, one Fred Ebb award, as well as songs featured on television, several off-Broadway and regional productions, and one Broadway production.

The goal of NewMusicalTheatre.com is to create a direct connection between people who write music and people who want to perform and listen to it. It provides an affordable and legal one-stop shop for musical theater fans and performers to discover and share the work of self-published writers. Site features include custom songbooks, song ratings, and a search functionality that caters to singers browsing for new audition songs. It aspires to foster a dynamic community where fans and actors can directly connect and impact writers while they're still struggling to make a living on their music.

NewMusicalTheatre.com will bring writers, actors, and fans together to share the music in a safe, dynamic - and most importantly - legal way.  The site was created by writers for writers as an alternative to traditional publishing. Most songs have mp3s or video samples. NewMusicalTheatre.com uses new technology to protect writers from having their sheet music illegally downloaded by password protecting the downloaded file with the customer's credit card number. While protecting the writer, it also allows customers to have more control over their purchase. Rather than having to print their sheet music right away, they can keep the sheet music on their computer for continued access to the file and multiple printings.

NewMusicalTheatre.com is dedicated to the distribution and promotion of a new generation of musical theater writers who self-publish their own digital sheet music. This is an e-commerce website designed by writers for writers. It allows fans to directly support the writers of tomorrow's big hits.

 

Photo Credit: Genevieve Rafter-Keddy