Musical Theatre Radio presents "Be Our Guest‪"‬ Jean Paul Yovanoff

Carmel is a composer/lyricist, arranger, music supervisor/director, conductor of musical theatre, based in NYC. Composition credits include Renascence, produced Off-Broadway by Transport Group in 2018. Music director/arranger credits include the Broadway productions of Funny Girl (revival), If/Then, Hands on a Hardbody, American Idiot, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, as well as Broadway's The Notebook.



Well Behaved Women


What would Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriet Tubman, Frida Kahlo, and Malala Yousafzai sound like if you heard them sing? Find out in “Well- Behaved Women,” a new collection of songs by Carmel Dean (Broadway musical director/arranger, and composer of the award-winning Off-Broadway musical Renascence). These women - and more - will be brought to life by some of Broadway’s leading ladies, and through these powerful and often hilarious songs will celebrate the ways in which their bad-ass behavior helped them make history.

Kailey Marshall is a New York-based composer/lyricist who creates queer, femme forward, pop-infused musical theatre. Marshall’s work has been featured at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, Don’t Tell Mama’s, the Highline Ballroom, and Lincoln Center. Her musicals Confirmed and Songs for Slutty Girls received readings in association with Pace University’s New Musicals Program and she won the Twenty-Somethings Two Fresh Pens Contest with her song “Give It Up” and Taylor Louderman’s Write Out Loud competition with her song “Brave”. Her country revenge thriller, Vengeance, was developed as a part of Molloy College’s Pop/Rock Lab. Her most recent work, A Long Line of McKinney Women, was commissioned by Nebraska Wesleyan University and received its world premiere in 2023. You can find her pop concept album, Ghostwriter, on Spotify & Apple Music. 


Songs for Slutty Girls, a new musical by New York-based composer and lyricist Kailey Marshall, explores the ecstasy, pain, and hilarity of sex through a year in the life of one woman. It receives its UK premiere in a staged reading, directed by Tania Azevedo (&Juliet, Heathers, But I'm a Cheerleader).

Chris James is an emerging on camera talent and a powerhouse presence on screen. Not only is he a skilled actor and dancer, but he broke into the TV and film industry using a wide variety of martial arts skills, and has since been a stunt and fight choreographer for various productions. With a variety of performance skills from an extensive theatrical background, he has a host of performance tools in the tool box.

 

Chris has soaked up every life experience that he could find.  A world traveler; he has tried to experience every adventure possible.

 

Training in several Martial Arts, languages, stage combat, and several performance styles, Chris is striving not only to be a great performer, but a truly diverse human being.

MATEO CHAVEZ LEWIS (He/They) is a professional musical theatre writer/composer, based in NYC and Toronto.

He is best known for his critically acclaimed performance as Jerry Lee Lewis in Million Dollar Quartet at the Arts Club Theatre Company on Granville Island, and for the epic anthem he wrote as a tribute to Greta Thunberg, “Dear Greta” (you can listen to the fully orchestrated version here).Other music & lyrics writing credits include Tommy Rhod

es (2024 Toronto World Premiere), The Opening (2024 Dramatists’ Guild reading), The Yellow Wallpaper (a 10-minute musical adaptation), The Accountant (2022 Canada Council for the Arts grant recipient), and Quarantine Songs (2022 Toronto World Premiere).

He runs Music Theatre Theory, a YouTube channel with ~9k subs where he analyzes the best songs and performances from the musical theatre canon.

TOMMY RHODES - In the southern U.S., in the times before DNA testing, two young boys go missing.  Then, a few years later, one boy reappears... and both the mothers of the missing kids somehow become convinced that this is their son.

We spoke with Nicholas Rita (music director), Giulia Lentini (actor), Lisa Malcolm (stage manager) and Nicole Toogood (director) of the upcoming TCDSB Staff Arts production of 'Legally Blonde'

Cornell Christianson is the Writer-Producer of the upcoming Off-Broadway musical "Marilyn Exposed" that he wrote with original songs by Beth Lawrence and Norman Thalheimer. Show exposes the truth about Marilyn Monroe with six big musical song and dance numbers. Is set to open in fall 2024.Christianson is the Writer-Producer of the award-winning 1940s film noir musical "Wicked City Blues" which opened in 2019 and ran for a year in historic Off-Broadway theatre Actor's Temple Theatre on 47th St. It was shut-down by the closing of NY theatres in March 2020, but will resume its run in late 2024.. He is also the Writer-Producer of the award-winning 1950s sci-fi musical-comedy "It Came From Beyond" which opened in 2018 and ran for 2 years Off-Broadway in St. Luke's Theatre on 46th St produced by a leading Off-Broadway producer, John Lant. The musical was named Best in Theatre in Los Angeles with 6 Ovation Award nominations. The musical will re-open Off-Broadway in fall 2024.