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MAD LIBS LIVE! Heads Into the Recording Studio; Cast Album Out Spring 2017

By: Mar. 09, 2017
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Two-time Grammy Award Winning Producer, Michael J. Moritz Jr. and Broadway's Kevin Duda are partnering to produce the Off Broadway Cast Album of Mad Libs Live!

The original Off Broadway cast - Jeanfranco Cardenty, Lindsey Brett Carothers, Max Joseph, Melody Madarasz, Zachary Noah Piser and Santina Umbach - heads into the studio to record the new album on March 10, which will be released in Spring 2017.

Mad Libs Live! received its World Premiere in 2015 at New World Stages and features music by Jeff Thomson(Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award) and book and lyrics by Robin Rothstein (Samuel French Short Play Festival Winner). Based on the popular Mad Libs© series created by Leonard Stern (The Honeymooners, Get Smart) and Roger Price (Droodles). Performance rights for Mad Libs Live! are licensed by R&H Theatricals.

With a script and songs full of blanks that are hilariously filled in by audience members and an infectious pop score, Mad Libs Live! fully embraces the spirit of the "World's Greatest Word Game!"

Meet Virtuosa, Gogo, Geyser, and Merrily, four teenagers from Blankville Central High School with little in common, who come together to form a singing group to try and win the title, "Teen Superstars!" Mad Libs Live! is set during the live, televised competition when the teens realize that the songs they are about to sing have words missing. Thank goodness these discombobulated kids have The Audience there to help them fill in the blanks!

But...will this be enough to help them win the competition?

Mad Libs Live! was originally produced by Ava,Max and Peter Cane with Robin Rothstein & Kevin Duda Productions.

R&H Theatricals (Licensing) is proud to represent the performance rights to Mad Libs Live! in addition to over 150 musicals by more than 200 writers. Collectively these include works by Rodgers & Hammerstein (The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, The King and I), Rodgers & Hart (Babes in Arms, Pal Joey), Kern & Hammerstein (Show Boat), Kurt Weill (The Threepenny Opera, One Touch of Venus), Adam Guettel (Floyd Collins, The Light in the Piazza), as well as the incomparable, Irving Berlin (Annie Get Your Gun, White Christmas, Holiday Inn). R&H Theatricals is home to works from Broadway (Sophisticated Ladies, Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party, In the Heights, [title of show] and First Date), Off-Broadway (Carrie the musical, Ordinary Days, Altar Boyz, Giant)perennials such as Once Upon a Mattress, Big River and Footloose, a Theater for Young Audiences (TYA) collection which includes Mad Libs Live! and Garfield The Musical with Cattitude , and the longest-running revues in the history of Broadway - Smokey Joe's Cafe - and Off-Broadway - I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. R&H Theatricals is a division of Rodgers & Hammerstein, an Imagem company: www.rnh.com.

Penguin Random House (Publisher) is the international home to nearly 250 editorially and creatively independent publishing imprints, including Price Stern Sloan the publishing imprint for Mad Libs. Price Stern Sloan was founded in Los Angeles in the early 1960s by comedy writers Roger Price and Leonard Stern. Their idea for Mad Libs was concocted while working for Steve Allen's Tonight Show and has since become a cultural fixture.

For more information, please visit MadLibsLive.com



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