NewMusicalTheatre.com Launches Georgia Stitt’s Sheet Music Catalogue

NewMusicalTheatre.com, the first website ever exclusively devoted to selling sheet music by musical theater writers, launches Georgia Stitt's sheet music catalogue today. Over the course of the next several weeks and leading up to an April launch concert, NewMusicalTheatre.com will be adding a new writer to the site every Friday.

The e-commerce site already sells sheet music written by Nick Blaemire (Glory Days), Ryan Cunningham and Josh Salzman (I Love You Because), Adam Gwon (Ordinary Days), Joe Iconis (The Black Suits, The Plant that Ate the Dirty Socks, Things to Ruin), Paul Gordon (Tony-nominee for Jane Eyre), 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), Jeremy Schonfeld (Drift), and most recently Jeff Blumenkrantz (Tony-nominee for Urban Cowboy).

Georgia Stitt wrote the musicals Big Red Sun, The Water, Sing Me A Happy Song and Mosaic (opening off-Broadway April 2010, starring Heidi Blickenstaff), and is currently writing Hello! My Baby with Cheri Steinkellner and Devil In A Blue Dress with Walter Mosley. Her album, This Ordinary Thursday, and her song cycle, Alphabet City Cycle, are both available from PSClassics and iTunes. Georgia published several choral pieces and wrote two songs for the MTV movie The American Mall. She is represented on the solo albums of Susan Egan, Lauren Kennedy and Daniel Boys. As a music director, she has worked on Little Shop of Horrors, Avenue Q, Sweet Smell of Success, The Music Man, Titanic, Annie and the national tour of Parade, where she met husband Jason Robert Brown.

"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 writers in the theater community. Among them, they've netted four Jonathan Larson awards, two Ed Kleban awards, two Rodgers awards, one Fred Ebb award, and two Tony nominations,
as well as having had songs featured on television, and several Broadway, off- Broadway and regional productions.

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 music in a safe, dynamic - and most importantly - legal way. "The site's an extension of what we all do in the real world -- support each other's work. To have a site that not only gets our music out to people who want to sing it, but helps those people discover other young writers, is amazing. It's bursting the doors of the new musical theater community open to the whole world," says site member
Adam Gwon, composer of Ordinary Days.

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.