New Music Theatre Intensives
77 Samor Rd. Unit 4 M6A 1J2 Toronto, ON, Canada

Final Chance to see this live virtual musical in development tonight at 7:30pm! https://youtu.be/B3g1Iwy8GBI

Final Chance to see this live virtual musical in development tonight at 7:30pm! https://youtu.be/B3g1Iwy8GBI

Tomorrow we will be doing something we NEVER thought we would be doing! Producing a LIVE virtual musical in development!!! Special thanks to our incredible team of writers Daniel Abrahamson and Sarah Mucek for their fabulous work and adapting the piece to be performed on zoom! We hope you can join us! Register at bravoacademy.ca for a free link. Only TWO performances! May 29 & 30 at 7:30pm... Music & Lyrics by Daniel Abrahamson Book & Lyrics by Sarah Mucek Artistic Director: Melissa Bencic Director: Richard Ouzounian Music Director: Daniel Abrahamson Choreographer/Associate Director: Kayla James Associate Music Director: Jake Schindler Production Stage Manager: Julie-Rae K. Assistant Stage Manager: Christoph Ibrahim Video Editor & Designer: Taran Kim Alissa’s anxiety makes her turn invisible could her super powers be more embarrassing? On her first day at Super Public High School, however, she discovers that she isn’t the only one struggling to control her gifts. Will Alissa and her new classmates be able to overcome their insecurities to win the cross-town All-Powers Tournament? And more importantly, will they rise to the occasion when they discover a supervillain in their midst? Super School is a show about friendship, ability, and what it takes to be a hero. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCqi19UhTCg&feature=emb_logo

Final chance to catch SUPER SCHOOL tonight at 7:30pm! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/super-school-a-new-musical-in-d

Tomorrow we will be doing something we NEVER thought we would be doing! Producing a LIVE virtual musical in development!!! Special thanks to our incredible team of writers Daniel Abrahamson and Sarah Mucek for their fabulous work and adapting the piece to be performed on zoom! We hope you can join us! Register at bravoacademy.ca for a free link. Only TWO performances! May 29 & 30 at 7:30pm... Music & Lyrics by Daniel Abrahamson Book & Lyrics by Sarah Mucek Artistic Director: Melissa Bencic Director: Richard Ouzounian Music Director: Daniel Abrahamson Choreographer/Associate Director: Kayla James Associate Music Director: Jake Schindler Production Stage Manager: Julie-Rae K. Assistant Stage Manager: Christoph Ibrahim Video Editor & Designer: Taran Kim Alissa’s anxiety makes her turn invisible could her super powers be more embarrassing? On her first day at Super Public High School, however, she discovers that she isn’t the only one struggling to control her gifts. Will Alissa and her new classmates be able to overcome their insecurities to win the cross-town All-Powers Tournament? And more importantly, will they rise to the occasion when they discover a supervillain in their midst? Super School is a show about friendship, ability, and what it takes to be a hero. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCqi19UhTCg&feature=emb_logo

Our WRITERS had another amazing day in the @newmusictheatreintensives WRITER’S WORKSHOP working with the incredible @adamsakiyama for a second day on LYRICS! Thank you so much Adam!

Having so much fun with our Super School students! We're loving Kayla James' fun and inventive choreo for Zoom.

Today kicked off the first day of the @newmusictheatreintensives Writer’s Workshop! It was such a pleasure to have our first guest artist, composer/lyricist @adamsakiyama working with our writers on LYRICS! Adam Sakiyama is a Toronto-based composer / lyricist. Recent theatre credits include Sunday in the Park with George (Eclipse Theatre), Reprint (Musical Stage Co.), Next to Normal (Musical Stage Co. / Mirvish), and Billy Elliot (Stratford). Composing credits include Quench (Axon Interactive) and in between (National Ballet of Canada). Songwriter/Arranger for Super Simple Songs, one of the most watched educational channels on YouTube. Currently writing the score for Macbeth (Ballet Kelowna). Adam is a proud alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.

Throwing it back to our 2018 Writer’s Workshop because we are SO excited to start our 2020 Workshop tomorrow! Workshop participants will hit the ground running working with program coordinator @steventgallagher and the amazing composer/lyricist @adamsakiyama #NewMusicTheatreIntensives #WritersWorkshop #TorontoWriters #NewMusicals

Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of Spelling Bee on Broadway with a #Throwback to our summer 2015 intensive! Thanks for the inspiration @mtishows

We are celebrating #NationalSuperHeroDay by rehearsing for this AMAZING new musical written by the @danieljohnabrahamson & @mucekaltheater Who are your superheros?? #NewMusicTheatreIntensives #BravoAcademy #SuperSchool #SuperHeroDay

Congratulations to Steven Gallagher on the workshop of this incredible new musical with The Musical Stage Company We are so excited for you to share your knowledge and experience with the Writer’s Workshop participants again this year! #NewMusicTheatreIntensives #BravoAcademy #CanadianMT #NewMusicals

We are absolutely THRILLED to welcome Leslie Arden to the line-up of incredible guest artists joining our Writers' Workshop beginning May 4! Leslie Arden is an award winning composer, orchestrator, lyricist and librettist who has written and composed over a dozen musicals, including the critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning The House of Martin Guerre and the Chalmers Award winning The Happy Prince. Leslie also collaborated with Norm Foster on the oft produced The Last ...Resort and Ned Durango. She wrote the scores for Harvest Moon Rising, A Meeting of Minds, and The Boys Are Coming Home, which was produced by Chicago’s AMTP in 2006 and was chosen to be presented at NAMT later the same year. Leslie composed the music for Canadian Stage Company’s productions of The Beard of Avon and It’s a Wonderful Life, in which she also performed. She’s been commissioned by choirs all across Canada, and she’s spent five seasons as a composer with The Stratford Festival. She composed the score for Jeannette Lambermont’s production of Goethe’s Faust, and she wrote the book, music and lyrics for Moll, a contemporary musical adaptation of Dafoe’s Moll Flanders. Leslie is currently at work on a new commission for Queen’s University’s Dan School of Music Theatre, where she will be writer-in-residence for two years. In 1990 Leslie was one of thirteen professional musical theatre writers chosen from around the world by Cameron MacIntosh to study with Stephen Sondheim at Oxford University See more

Continuing our features of guest artists joining our 2020 NMTI Writers' Workshop, we're thrilled to welcome ADAM SAKIYAMA! Adam Sakiyama is a Toronto-based composer / lyricist. Recent theatre credits include Sunday in the Park with George (Eclipse Theatre), Reprint (Musical Stage Co.), Next to Normal (Musical Stage Co. / Mirvish), and Billy Elliot (Stratford). Composing credits include Quench (Axon Interactive) and in between (National Ballet of Canada). Songwriter/Arranger for Super Simple Songs, one of the most watched educational channels on YouTube. Currently writing the score for Macbeth (Ballet Kelowna). Adam is a proud alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.

Don’t miss the chance to check out Super School Composer & MD Daniel Abrahamson and Choreographer & Associate Director Kayla James on Monday at 6:30pm singing material from his new Canadian musicals! #BravoAcademy #NewMusicTheatreIntensives #SuperSchool #CanadianMT #TorontoMusicTheatre #CanadaPerforms