NMI to Host THE BIZ OF THE MUSICAL THEATRE BIZ Conference This July

When a producer asks to see your musical...you need to be ready, right? But where are you going to go to find out everything you need to know before your musical is ready for production? Things like how to approach producers (and how NOT to), and collaboration agreements, contracts, pitfalls of marketing through social media, over-produced demos/under-produced demos...or the new exciting trends of multi-ethnic casting?

New Musicals Inc. in Los Angeles is hosting a conference just for musical theatre bookwriters, lyricists, and composers. Eight incredible panels, multiple power-networking sessions, and several opportunities to pitch your musical to producers all around the country. "The Biz of the Musical Theatre Biz" is a jam-packed weekend with producers, directors, writers, entertainment attorneys, money-raisers, dramaturgs and other insider theatre professionals ready to rub shoulders with you and answer your questions. If you're serious about your musical theatre writing career, this is a weekend you won't want to miss.

The conference this year will take place the weekend of July 22, 23, and 24 - in a brand new conference facility in Burbank. Among the panels is a session with Broadway producer Ken Davenport (Spring Awakening, The Visit, Kinky Boots, Mothers and Sons, and Godspell, as well as six Off-Broadway shows, including Altar Boyz, and Daddy Long Legs). There will also be panels on finding funding; getting info from lawyers; and a unique "Pitch Panel" writers get a chance to pitch musicals to a panel of producers. Other panelists this year include producers Mark Waldman (Carrie), Kenny Alhadeff (Memphis), Tim Kashani (American in Paris), Michael Shepperd (The Color Purple at Celebration Theatre), etc., etc.

Plus, some musicals written by conference participants will receive staged-reading presentations of excerpts; followed by a feedback session with NMI staffers and guests. The conference moderators will talk about how staged-readings have become such a critical step in the development of your show, and their vital importance nationally at places like the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, the Village Theatre, Goodspeed and more.

There is an Early Registration discount of $100 off the full conference for participants who sign up by June 1st. For more information, visit nmi.org/develop/conference.