Theater Resources Unlimited & The Playroom Theatre Partner for December TRU Panel

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU), and The Playroom Theatre, present the December panel, Making Beautiful Music Together: Bringing New Works of Musical Theater to the Stage, on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 7:30pm at The Playroom Theater, 151 W. 46th Street, 8th floor, NYC 10036. Doors open at 7pm for networking and refreshments; roundtable introductions of everyone in the room will start at 7:30pm.

Panelists will include Ken Davenport (Daddy Long Legs, Allegiance), Lucas McMahon from Alchemation (Something Rotten!) and Martin Platt (Dames at Sea, My Life Is a Musical).

This lively discussion will look at the developmental paths of recent musicals, and the patience and persistence it took for the producers to bring their shows into commercial production in New York this year. Producers of currently running shows will talk about early development, consider the not-for-profit partnerships that helped shape the productions, how enhancement deals come into play, and the sometimes-unexpected circumstances that dictate the course a new musical will take in its journey to the stage.

Doors open at 7pm for networking and refreshments, roundtable introductions of everyone in the room will start at 7:30pm - come prepared with your best thirty-second summary of who you are, and what you need. Free for TRU members, $12 for non-members! Please call at least a day in advance (or way sooner) for reservations: 212/714-7628; or e-mail TRUStaff1@gmail.com

The Playroom Theater, a small theater with a purpose on West Forty Sixth Street. Created by longtime theatrical producer Eric Krebs, The Playroom Theater features a 62-seat boutique theater, appropriate for rehearsals, readings, auditions, producers' presentations and workshop productions. Conceived of as an artists' workspace for writers, directors, composers, actors, producers and others committed to the professional theater arts and its industry. "The idea of The Playroom has grown out of my desire to create a small and financially manageable space in the heart of the theater district," commented Krebs. "I want this to be a place where industry professionals can pop over for a reading, a backer's audition or a small production of a work in progress." The Playroom Theatre is also host to Masterworks Theater Company, (Eric Krebs, Founding Director; Christopher Scott, Artistic Director; Frankie Dailey, Managing Director) a professional not-for-profit Equity theater company, whose repertoire will include the masterworks of the theater (plays, musicals and stage adaptation of novels) that every young person should have an opportunity to experience.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is a twenty-three year old 501c3 nonprofit organization created to help producers produce, emerging theater companies to emerge healthily and all theater professionals to understand and navigate the business of theater. Membership includes self-producing artists as well as career producers and theater companies.

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