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Stay connected with The Musical Theater Project through stories, updates, and reflections on the art of musical theater. Here you’ll find behind-the-scenes features, event highlights, and articles that explore its history, impact, and enduring magic.
Announcing Our 2025-2026 Season!
The Musical Theater Project is delighted to unveil its 2025–26 season—a rich, thoughtfully curated journey through the American musical. From beloved standards to Broadway’s most poignant moments, this year’s performances invite you to rediscover the songs and stories that have shaped our cultural imagination. With each event, we aim to create meaningful experiences that engage the heart, stir the memory, and celebrate the enduring artistry of musical theater.
Hail, Cryer & Ford!
I met Gretchen and Nancy in the summer of 2017 in New York. Over brunch on the Upper West Side I persuaded them to co-host a docu-concert of their songs with Nancy Maier and me here in Cleveland. I had known and loved their work since I was 16 and bought the LP of their first New York show, Now Is the Time for All Good Men. Still have it…
The Lerner & Loewe Phenomenon
How is it possible that none of Lerner & Loewe’s five major musicals—each so far removed by date and distance from the America of its own time—has ever sounded unfashionable or untruthful, corny or clichéd? Emily Altman, President of the Lerner & Loewe Foundation, answers this question.
BRING ON LIVE TV MUSICALS!
At The Musical Theater Project’s special Members’ event in October, we screened the live TV musical Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates (1958). It was fascinating — not only because…
COMING JUNE 25: AN AMERICAN HERO
Sunday, June 25 (3 PM) at the Maltz Performing Arts Center (see homepage to take you to our online box office) By Bill Rudman One of the best things about…
Kids Love Musicals! …and I was one of ‘em!
I was a youngster of five or six when I first became aware of musical theater. I was a freakish child of five voraciously reading about all things historical and…
Bacharach on Broadway
By Bill Rudman There were so many written tributes paid to Burt Bacharach, who left us February 8 at the age of 95, that I would feel no need to add…
Age, Identity and Embracing Musical Theater
Recently, Bill asked me to start thinking about an article for an upcoming issue of TMTP’s Overture Newsletter – something about my first year with the organization and rediscovering a…