Elspeth Collard News

Next week, FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com or call (646) 476-3551.

This year's musical will be Charlotte Lucas is 27 and Not Dead, a two act romantic-comedy with a contemporary rock/pop score juxtaposed against a 19th Century regency setting.

After a highly successful presentation at the New Musicals Lab, Collard & Rosenblatt's Like the Wind will receive a staged reading on December 19th and 20th. Directed by Daniella Caggiano, with music direction by Rai Arsa Artha and stage management by Isabel Schwartzberg, the two-night only staged reading will debut at The Brick in Brooklyn, NY.

Tommy Ranieri will direct THE WITCHING HOUR: UNAUTHORIZED! Some of New York’s hottest composers are coming together on October 16th at 9:30 PM in The Green Room 42 for a spooky and intimate evening of original music inspired by famous Halloween films. 

Tin Pan Alley 2, a free concert series featuring new musical theatre works, is pleased to feature a panel of emerging writers on Friday, August 27th, 2021 at 7:30pm ET.

The New Musicals Lab (NML) at the Ferguson Center for the Performing Arts at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, is making space for new musical works by providing Artist Residencies with access to world-class facilities, funding, and student and Broadway talent.

Following the success of their two previous fundraisers for Mental Health America and Maestra Music, Elspeth Collard & Sam Rosenblatt have written and produced a celebration of queer joy and love.

Season Two of The Latest Draft Podcast premieres this Friday, February 12. After receiving dozens of submissions, the producers narrowed down the season to eight podcast musicals and 20 cabaret songs.

Following a successful fundraiser for Mental Health America in October, musical theatre writing team Collard & Rosenblatt are back with a fundraiser benefiting Maestra Music. Collard & Rosenblatt dropped a new song on 'Inspire Your Heart with Art' Day (January 31st), to kick off the week-long fundraiser on Facebook.

The Latest Draft Podcast is taking submissions of short-form musicals and stand-alone songs for its second season. Following the success of Season 1, The Latest Draft team is eager to feature eight new 10-20 minute musicals and several cabaret songs. Season 2 will premiere in Feb. 2021.

Jason SweetTooth Williams (Be More Chill) is fittingly turned into a cookie for this virtual performance video of an original new song by Eric Fegan (Music) and Jamie Maletz (Lyrics). With backup cookies played by Badia Farha (School of Rock), Cori Jaskier, Kennedy Kanagawa, MinJi Kim, Luana Psaros, and Dani Weiner and a cameo by Broadway lyricist Mindi Dickstein (who inspired the song), the piece is about quarantine snacking. Orchestrations are by Elspeth Collard.

Tin Pan Alley 2, a free concert series featuring new musical theatre works, is pleased to feature a panel of female writers on Saturday, September 12, 2020 at 7:30pm.

Even though the curtain's down, the show must go on! 'The Latest Draft' is a podcast celebrating new works from the next generation of great musical theatre authors. Weekly episodes will feature podcast musicals by book writers, lyricists, and composers from around the world.

The original musical webseries, 'IS THIS ART NOW: A Musical In The Time of Corona' has announced a Season 3, set to premiere online June 7th.

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Dixon Place is pleased to present Tin Pan Alley 2, a free concert series featuring new musical theatre works on Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 7:30pm. After two successful concerts in last April and June, this time it will be showcasing new works by writers Deniz Demirkurt, Dan Gibson, and Sam Rosenblatt, and hosted by Durra Leung. The event is free. For more information and RSVP, please go to http://dixonplace.org/performances/tin-pan-alley-2-9-7-2019/