MUT Wettbewerb

MUT

International MUT Author's Competition 2018 for Musical Entertainment Theatre

The annual MUT Competition for Musical Entertainment Theatre organised by the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz aims to discover and encourage outstanding artistic personalities in the world of musical entertainment theatre.

The annual MUT Competition for Musical Entertainment Theatre organised by the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz aims to discover and encourage outstanding artistic personalities in the world of musical entertainment theatre.

Composers, lyricists and authors are given the chance to show their talent. Creative people of any nationality who have an affinity with musical entertainment theatre (musicals, operettas) are invited to develop dramatic concepts on a theme of their choice and to apply to become competition-winners.

From the concepts submitted, our international jury of specialists, made up of artistic directors, dramaturgy experts, publishers and authors from the German and international music theatre scene, will select, in what we call »blind auditions«, i.e. without knowing who the writers are, a total of six concepts which will then be rehearsed by students from the Bavarian Theatre Academy and the Munich University of Music and Drama and presented to an audience at the public final presentation »Free for the Premiere!«.

The jury will then award the prize worth €5,000 to the winner. An audience prize and a media prize (each 1.000 €) will also be awarded.

 

Finalists:

»Devotion«, Mark Sonnenblick

»Die fürchterlichen Fünf«, Sebastian Brandmeir / Florian Stanek

»La Maupin«, Jared Field / Jessy Field

»Mary and Max«, Bobby Cronin / Crystal Skillman

»Propaganda! The Musical«, Taylor Ferrara / Matt Webster

»Under the Overture«, Ronald Kaehler / Jeremy Franklin Goodman

A cooperation with the August Everding Theatre Academy and Munich University of Music and Drama

Theaterakademie August EverdingHochschule für Musik und Theater München          

Cast


Es singen und spielen Studierende des Studiengangs Musical der Theaterakademie August Everding und der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München nebst Gästen aus dem Studiengang Musiktheater/Operngesang und dem Ensemble des Gärtnerplatztheaters in der Regie von Nicole Claudia Weber und unter der musikalischen Leitung von Liviu Petcu.

Jury
Josef E. Köpplinger (Vorsitzender der Jury, Staatsintendant des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz, Regisseur), Adam Cooper (West-End-Choreograf und Regisseur), Matthias Davids (Regisseur und Künstlerischer Leiter der Sparte Musical am Landestheater Linz), Eva Giesel (Geschäftsführerin der Litag Theaterverlag GmbH), Séan Gray (Managing Director von Josef Weinberger Ltd. London), Jürgen Hartmann (Dramaturg der Musik und Bühne Verlagsgesellschaft mbH), Kathrin Kondaurow  (Designierte Intendantin der Staatsoperette Dresden), Peter Lund (Regisseur, Autor und Leiter des Studiengangs Musical/Show an der Universität der Künste  Berlin), Michael Alexander Rinz (Geschäftsführender Dramaturg des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz), Werner Signer (Geschäftsführender Direktor des Theaters St. Gallen), Markus Spiegel (Musikproduzent und Medienberater), Moritz Staemmler (Geschäftsführer der Felix Bloch Erben GmbH & Co. KG), Dr. Maria Teuchmann (Geschäftsführerin der Thomas Sessler Verlag GmbH), Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz (Chefdramaturg der Volksoper Wien), Johanna Wall (Dramaturgin der Komischen Oper Berlin)

Performances

Composers, lyricists and authors are given the chance to show their talent. Creative people of any nationality who have an affinity with musical entertainment theatre (musicals, operettas) are invited to develop dramatic concepts on a theme of their choice and to apply to become competition-winners.

Further information for applicants HERE.