Posts by Hannah Maier
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.
Read MoreHail, 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…
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreBacharach 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…
Read MoreDiscover Broadway’s Hidden Gems
As the winter weather rolls in and the pandemic rages on, now is the perfect time to hunker down and get cozy with your favorite cast albums. It’s also the…
Read MoreLife Is a Cabaret!
Every October Manhattan is usually bursting with song as the Mabel Mercer Foundation presents the annual Cabaret Convention. The artform specializing in live and intimate song interpretation certainly wasn’t created…
Read MoreCelebrating Bernstein
Between multiple Broadway revivals, cabaret recordings, film versions, television clips and concert events, it’s hard to identify the quintessential Leonard Bernstein. As we celebrate the late composer’s birthday this week,…
Read MoreBinge-Worthy TV Shows to Get Your Musical Fix
The 72nd Annual Emmy Award nominations just came out and as usual, Broadway is well represented. We thought this would be the perfect time to look back at our favorite…
Read MoreVinyl Memories
Harbinger’s latest album, Geraldine Fitzgerald’s Streetsongs, is now available as a special collector’s edition ON VINYL! Yes, that’s right, TMTP is now entering the retro-hip era of the LP record. So, with…
Read MoreGeraldine Fitzgerald’s Emerald
It’s rare that something you created 37 years ago is still admired decades later. The first LP Ken Bloom and I ever produced – Geraldine Fitzgerald in Streetsongs – was…
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