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LICENSING AVAILABLE 

Theatre Now's "10-Minute Musical Collection" is the first licensing program of its kind, licensing and publishing only short-form musicals. Established in 2020, the organization's catalog features some of the best emerging, mid-career, and established musical theatre writing teams.

The titles in this collection have all been showcased and developed through Theatre  Now's festival of ten-minute musical flagship program, SOUND BITES. While short plays are widely available, there's a lack of opportunity and availability for short musicals in the commercial and educational theatre landscape. We aim to change that by creating a licensing catalogue, a home, just for short musicals to live and thrive.

Becoming the authors' representatives for titles we've produced, we're extremely passionate about all of these short musicals and we'd like to provide them to you as new programming opportunities in high schools, colleges, community and regional theaters across the country.

In 2026, we'll venture into licensing full-length musicals and are very excited to add our first two pieces to this category. 

As Theatre Now is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, proceeds we receive from our licensing program will be invested into our production programming, enabling us to provide greater resources for the development of our authors' next musical theatre shows.

Please see below the available shows for licensing inquires and more information.

10-MINUTE MUSICAL COLLECTION

Licensing

A Most Average Musical

Comedy

1m, 4f

A Relative Relationship

Comedy

1m, 2f

A Seat At The Table

Young Adult

5m, 5f

Ant and Grasshopper

Comedy

1m, 1f *Flex.

Big Ass Secret

Dramedy

3m, 2f

Bittersweet Lullaby

Magical Realism

1m, 1f

Book Lovers

Comedy

3m, 4f

Bystander

Drama

1m, 2f

Cookie Soiree

Comedy

2m, 3f

Cooking For Two

Comedy

3 (1m, 1f, 1x)

Dead Flowers

Dark Comedy

2m, 2f, Ensemble

Dinosaur

Comedy

4 (2m, 2f)

End of The Line

Comedy

4 (2m, 2f)

Fables

Musical, Family

15+

Finding the Words

Comedy

6 (3m, 2f, 1x)

Franklin Pierce Dragon Slayer

Comedy

1m,1f

How To Draw Frankenstein

Dramedy

4 (2m, 2f)

Humpty's Hatching Day

Comedy

5 (3m, 2f)*

Letters From May

Drama

5 (3f, 2m)*

Magnolia Creek

Romantic Dramedy

2 (1m, 1f)

Mission to the Moon: A Tardigrade Tale

Sci-Fi

5*

Moonphase

Fantasy

3 (2m, 1f)

Old Man In The Wheelchair

Contemporary Drama

3 (2f, 1m)

On Your Mark!

Dramatic Comedy

5+ (2m, 2f, 1x, + Flex. Ensemble)

Ordinary

Contemporary Drama

2 (1f, 1m)

Peach Melba

Dramedy

4 (2f, 2m)

Pellets, Cherries, and Lies

Comedy

5+ (2m, 2f, Ensemble 1-3)

Pigeons Mate For Life

Comedy

4 (2m, 2f)*

RansomWHERE?!

Comedy, SciFi

3 (1m, 2f, 1x)

Run This Town

Comedy

3m, 3f, 3a

SLAM!

Musical Theatre

2 (1m, 1f)

Starshine

SciFi, Dramedy

2 (1m, 1f)

Superhots!

Comedy

6+ (2m, 1f, 3+ Flex Ensemble)

The Almost In-Laws

Comedy

4 (2m, 2f)

The Answering Machine

Dramatic Comedy

3 (2m, 1f)

The Carousel of Inevitability & Certain Foreboding

Dark Comedy

6 (4m, 2f)

The Charm

Comedy

5 (3m, 2f)

The Facebook Fighter

Dark Comedy

7+ (4m, 3f, Flex. Ensemble)

The Hipster Sister

Drama

3 (1m, 2f)

The Jingle Writer

Drama

8+ (2m, 3f, 3-6 Ensemble)

The Only Thing That Matters

Drama

3f

These Walls

Dramedy

4 (2m, 2f)

Time Travel Makes Complete Sense

SciFi/Comedy

8 (2m, 6f)

Video Rental Store

Musical Comedy

3+ (1M, 1F, 1+Ensemble)

Wanda Does The Water Cycle

Adventure

4+ (3-4f, 1m, Optional Flex. Ensemble)*

Welcome to Ridgington

Drama

4 (2m, 2f)

What's Your Wish? (10min)

Comedy

5 (3m, 2f)

What's Your Wish? (Full-Length)

Adventure

10+ (5M, 5F, Flex. Ensemble)

White Man's Burden

Dark Comedy

7m

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Approved Language Substitutions

We recognize that some of you may feel that your audience may be sensitive to some of the language in this musical. No substitutions or changes may be made without express written permission from the authors and Music Theatre International.

For more information visit the MTI website.

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Our office is on the original homeland of the Munsee Lenape tribal nation. Theatre Now acknowledges the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory, and we honor and respect the many diverse Indigenous peoples still connected to this land on which we and our artists live and work.

 

As an organization and as artists, we often gather in virtual space. Take a moment to consider the legacies of colonization embedded within the technologies, structures, and ways of thinking we use every day. We are using equipment and high-speed internet not available to all communities. Even the technologies that are central to much of the art we make leave significant carbon footprints, contributing to changing climates that disproportionately affect indigenous peoples worldwide. Theatre Now invites you to join us in acknowledging all this as well as our shared responsibility: to make good of this time, and for each of us to consider our roles in reconciliation, decolonization, antiracism, and allyship.

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