ANMT has made a leap into the future by shooting our very first “Guerilla Musical”, by which I mean a musical which bursts out “unexpectedly” in a public place. There are other “guerilla musicals” out there (check out http://www.anmt.tv/ for a collection of them), but we are hoping to corner the market on guerilla musicals which feature original musical theatre content.
This short video is a visual record of how excited I was when I got home from the shoot of “The Customer is Always Right”. To view the actual guerilla musical, please go to http://www.anmt.tv/ and scroll to the section titled “videos from the academy for new musical theatre”.
Enjoy!
Elise
Author: Elise Dewsberry
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc., Elise has been involved in the development of new works for over forty years: as an actor/singer, as a director, as a dramaturge, and as a writer. While living in Toronto, Elise served as the Assistant Artistic Director of the Muskoka Festival; the Co-Ordinator of the festival’s annual Musical Theatre Writer’s Colony, the Associate Dramaturge of the Canadian Stage Company; the Resident Dramaturge of the Smile Theatre Company; and was the co-founder of Toronto’s Script Lab. Elise spent many years touring Canada with Nine Months – a one-woman musical which she commissioned from writers Carl Ritchie and Stephen Woodjetts. Elise and Carl also co-wrote Any Body Home?, which was produced by the Cordova Bay Theatre in Victoria, British Columbia, and published by Dramatic Publishing. Elise joined ANMT as Associate Artistic Director in 2003; joined Founding Artistic Director John Sparks as Co-Artistic Director in 2010; and became Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc. in 2013. Elise is also the author and evaluator of the Book Lab and the Outlining Lab, offered online through www.writingmusicaltheatre.com, and publishes a monthly blog on the craft of musical theatre available at https://nmi.org/elises-video-blog/.