ASCAP/DISNEY is ISO new musicals for the 2008 ASCAP Foundation/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop in New York. Submissions deadline is Friday, February 1, 2008

 

Oscar and Grammy-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz is artistic director. (If you need a credits list they include “Wicked,” “Godspell,” “Pippin,” and Disney films “Pocahontas” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and that’s enough to give you the picture.

 

The workshop will take place March 18, 19, 26, 27, 31 and April 1, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. sharp, at ASCAP, 5th Floor, One Lincoln Plaza (Broadway between 63rd and 64th Streets) in New York.

 

Workshop participants will have the opportunity to present selections from their original works in progress for professional critique.  Each session will feature prominent guests from all aspects of musical theatre, including producers, directors, critics, performers and composers.  Past panelists have included Lynn Ahrens (Tony Award-winning lyricist: “Ragtime”); Stephen Flaherty (Tony Award-winning composer: “Ragtime”); Sheldon Harnick (Tony Award-winning lyricist: “Fiddler on the Roof”); Mark Hollmann (Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist: “Urinetown”); Rupert Holmes (Tony Award-winning librettist and composer/lyricist: “Drood”); and Joseph Stein (Tony Award- winning librettist: “Fiddler on the Roof”).

Writers interested in applying for participation in The ASCAP Foundation/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop in New York should submit the following:

 

-A CD of four (4) songs with lyric sheets -A brief description of each song as to its plot placement -A brief synopsis of the musical -Biographical information for each composer, lyricist & book writer (Please include address/phone number/email)

 

Send complete submission package to:

Michael A. Kerker

ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop

7920 W. Sunset Boulevard, Suite 300

Los Angeles, CA 90046

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: WHILE THE WORKSHOP WILL TAKE PLACE IN NEW YORK, SUBMISSIONS MUST BE SENT TO ASCAP'S LOS ANGELES OFFICE.

 

All submissions must be received by Friday, February 1, 2008.

 

PLEASE NOTE:

1) Please submit 4 songs only.  If you send us a full recording, we will only listen to the first 4 songs.

2) Submissions do not need to be produced in a studio.  We are looking for talent and potential, not production values.

3) You will be notified by Friday, February 22, 2008 if you have been selected to present your musical in the workshop.

4) If your musical is selected, you will need to present 50 consecutive minutes from the musical at the workshop.  The 50-minute selection must include book and songs.

 

Space is limited.  Submissions will not be returned.

 

For further information, please call Michael Kerker at 212-621-6264.