8Minute Musicals Information

8Minute Musicals is a two-week workshop process designed to nurture talented writers and composers in NYC. We create opportunities for artists to meet new collaborators, explore new ways of working, and create new short musicals that are performed off-book and fully staged in front of an audience. A microcosm of what it takes to create a full-length show, 8Minute Musicals is process-oriented but still focused enough on the end result that writers and composers can benefit from a rigorous professional workout that leads to a produced work. We select creative teams very carefully because once the process is in motion we are committed to producing the work that is created. How It Works... - 8 composers and 8 writers who have never worked together are paired on a Friday evening. - They are given guidelines for creating a short music theatre piece. - Their first drafts are sight-read by 10 actor/singers that Sunday afternoon. - The writer/composer teams have a few days for rewrites. - The performers rehearsal the new works with 2 directors and 2 music directors. - Two weeks after the first meeting, we present the new pieces to the public. Please visit 8minutemusicals.org for more info.