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Founded by a group of young playwrights, composers and educators in New York City.
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#repost • @thetinderboxperformingarts 1 week ago today, the cast of ‘We Are Monsters’ took to the stage. Covid put a stop to it in 2020, but this fabulous cast did themselves proud in 2022. Nothing got in our way.
Hmm, what production shall we do next year?
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#repost • @lookitsmsjackson Tomorrow is the big day! So so excited. We’d love to see friends there! Starts at 6:30pm. Message me for details! @bbbpress #theclawmusical
Photos from Original Kids Theatre Company's post
Looking for an awesome new TYA musical? Check out "The Prince's New Pet" with book/lyrics by Beat by Beat writers Jessica Penzias & Christyn Budzyna (BOTS!, THE CLAW) This small-cast, 60-minute show comes with a full licensing package and is perfect for audiences of kindergarten to third grade students and their families. Check it out at the link below. YAY for new musicals!! ✨
Welcome to the grayest kingdom you’ve ever seen, where colors and feelings are strictly prohibited. Today is Prince Viridian’s tenth birthday party, and it’s supposed to be the least eventful event anyone has ever seen. But, when a mysterious colorful creature suddenly bursts onto the scene, i...
#repost • @dramakidsofmanasota 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼And that’s a wrap! Thank you to everyone who came out to support our fabulous Drama Kids Take 2 performers production of “Press Start!” 🎮We are so grateful to have had this wonderful opportunity to work with such an incredible group of students. “We can’t wait to see what the next level brings. ‘Cause when we’re in play everything is all right. All of our worries are gone. Thank you for helping us be here tonight. We can not wait to play on. Now is the time to play on!”👾
#beatbybeatpress #dramakidsinternational #childrenstheatre #musicaltheatre
#repost • @joahsjourney We’re the Mario brothers and plumbing’s our game 🪠🎮 Come see us in “Press Start” a childrens video game musical by @bbbpress Ticket link in bio
Photos from LAMB Theatre's post
Photos from LAMB Theatre's post
#repost • @musicwithmrsrhodes Our first live theater show in 2 years! Our 3-5 Theater Production class put on “We Are Monsters” by @bbbpress and they killed it!! I am so so so proud of this incredible group of students, grateful for my amazing dance/drama teacher as a co-director, and feeling so full of love after receiving these beautiful flowers from my students and admin. ❤️
Are you feeling unsure about planning your spring or summer musical?
We hear you and we've got your back.
Here are a few ways you can rest easy when you license a show from Beat by Beat:
Flexible Date Changes and Extensions. If you need to change the dates of your performance, or extend the length of your license due to fluctuating Covid guidelines, simply send us an email and we’ll make it happen.
Cancellations. If you need to cancel your performance due to Covid without the ability to reschedule, we will provide you with a future credit to produce the same show for the amount originally paid.
Flexible Performance Options. If for any reason you need to video record or stream your show online, permission is included with every Beat by Beat license. You can use any platform that best works for your community.
Virtual Musicals. Our three virtual musicals provide an excellent option for those that need to rehearse and perform a show remotely.
Adaptation. If you need to make small edits to a script (splitting or combining characters, shortening a scene, changing a setting, etc.) simply write to us and we’ll do your best to give you approval within 24 hours.
Click here to browse the award-winning musicals:
https://www.bbbpress.com/musicals/
We look forward to returning to the stage with you in 2022!
#repost • @burkemegannoh Could You Hug a Cactus? Show is Saturday! #theatrekid @bbbpress
Join us for a live chat with the writers of "The Claw", a brand new 45-minute children's musical.
Creating this show was truly a team effort.
For the first time ever we setup a writer's room, expanding our creative team to include 5 incredible writers, plus an apprentice.
In this 30-minute event you'll have a chance to meet each of the writers, hear about the process of creating the show, and ask any questions about The Claw!
This event will feature:
Denver Casado
Jessica Penzias
Kerry Kazmierowicztrimm
Christyn Budzyna
Jack Mitchell
Eli Cohen
For information about "The Claw" click the link below:
https://www.bbbpress.com/musicals/the-claw/
Below are the official bios for each writer:
Showrunner: Denver Casado is an award-winning composer/lyricist, arts educator and founder of Beat by Beat. His 17 musicals have received over 5,400 productions in 75 countries around the globe. His music has also been featured in film and national TV commercials, and regionally/off-Broadway in the musicals Tea With Chachaji and Life on the Mississippi. For nearly a decade Denver worked as an arts educator with New York City’s leading theatre organizations including Disney Theatricals. As an author, Denver’s books on teaching theatre to young people have become an industry standard and have sold over 100,000 copies. Denver is a regularly invited speaker at the national conferences of the American Association of Community Theatre and the American Alliance for Theatre Education. Denver is an alumni of the Tony award-winning BMI Musical Theatre Workshop and holds a degree in Music Technology and Composition from New York University.
Head Writer: Jessica Penzias is a New York-based librettist and playwright. Her shows have been produced in New York City, throughout the United States, and in over 75 countries around the globe. Beat by Beat projects include: The Show Must Go Online, Super Happy Awesome News, Could You Hug A Cactus, BOTS, and the book Group Scenes for Young Actors. Additional musicals include: From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Prince’s New Pet, and The Fox Sisters. Jessica is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the 92Y Musical Theater Development Lab, and the Tony Award-honored BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Librettists' Workshop, where she was awarded the Jerry Harrington Award For Outstanding Creative Achievement. As an associate at Jill Furman Productions, Jessica aided in the development and production of Hamilton, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Suffs, and Freestyle Love Supreme. She holds a degree in creative writing and theatre arts from the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cm laude with honors. www.jessicapenzias.com
Book Writer: Kerry Kazmierowicztrimm (he/him) received his MFA in musical theatre writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. His Off-Broadway credits include having his play WOUNDED produced by The Soho Playhouse, and being featured in Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre's "Village Song Project.” His work was featured in Lincoln Center’s “Broadway’s Future Songbook'' series and at The Other Palace in London. His play E-SCAPE was commissioned by CLIMB Theatre and toured schools throughout Minnesota, while his musical podcast APART TOGETHER was commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse. His play LITTLE REDS will open Theatre of N.O.T.E.’s next season. WOUNDED is under option to be adapted into a feature film, while his screenplay PROFILE is in pre-production. He has won and placed in over three dozen playwriting/screenwriting awards and fellowships (including being a Finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference). He’s previously written three shows for Beat by Beat Press, including GIANTS IN THE SKY and SALLY SELLS SEASHELLS (AND YOU CAN, TOO!). For more info, please visit www.kerrykaz.com
Lyricist: Christyn Budzyna is a New York based musical theater lyricist. Works include: THE PRINCE'S NEW PET (with Anthony DeAngelis and Jessica Penzias , productions at Stimulus Children’s Theatre and Fuse Productions), BAKED GOODS (with Helen Park and Charlie Cohen, 2016 Sound Bites Festival, winner of the 2017 City Theatre Summer Shorts Festival, winner of the 2018 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival), THE FOX SISTERS (with Anthony De Angelis and Jessica Penzias), BOTS! (with Denver Casado and Jessica Penzias, Beat by Beat Press), FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER (with Adam Ben-David and Jessica Penzias) and “The Lights Before Christmas” poem. (Bank of America commission performed by Jane Krakowski at the Bryant Park Christmas Tree Lighting Skate-tacular). Christyn was awarded the 2017 City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting for her work on BAKED GOODS. The piece was published and licensed by Samuel French Inc. Christyn is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Tony Award-honored BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. She has a passion for writing code as well as writing musicals, and works as a web developer for The Public Theater.
Composer/Lyricist: Jack Mitchell is an award winning composer and songwriter for children’s media and musical theatre based in Brooklyn, NY. Current projects include original songs, scoring, and arrangements for “The Story Pirates Podcast” produced by Gimlet/Spotify (winner of the 2020 Webby and iHeartRadio Awards for Best Kids and Family Podcast), original scores for the interactive theatre experience, “Sleep Squad” starring Lilli Cooper (produced by Eva Price/Story Pirates), SPTV (PBS/KLCS), and “Don’t Break The Rules”, (Pinna Audio). Musicals in development include WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD BOOK? (with Maryanne Woods) and THE WRONG AMERICAN! (with Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri). Additional TYA credits include STONE SOUP: THE MUSICAL. Jack's music has been seen and heard nationally on PBS, NPR, SiriusXM Radio, ME-TV, and at The Foundation for New American Musicals in LA, The Utah Symphony, and The Kennedy Center. Proud graduate of Northwestern University, a member of the advanced class of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, and the Director/MD of the Late-Night Cabaret at Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Apprentice: Eli Cohen is a recent graduate of Northwestern University’s theatre program, where he concentrated in writing and musical theatre. Eli worked on Northwestern’s student-written musical, the Waa-Mu Show, for which he served as a writer, lyricist, and composer for Beyond Belief, Manhattan Miracle, and For the Record. Eli also worked on several productions of new musicals with the American Music Theatre Project, including as assistant director on Something in the Game and Legacy: A Book of Names, and as writer’s assistant on Marie in Tomorrowland. Additionally, he has worked in the Goodman Theatre's Literary Department. Original works include: The Chosen One, Far From Christopher Street, and (de)Generate. Songs from The Chosen One have been featured in UNC Greensboro's Hear Our Voices concert, as well as in concert with Tin Pan Alley 2. Originally from Chicago, Eli now resides in New York and hopes to adopt a dog soon.
Join us LIVE tonight at 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET for a 30-minute chat with the writers of the The Claw! Head over to the link below, see you there!
www.facebook.com/bbbpress/live
Rescheduled! Hope you can join us!
Creating The Claw was truly a team effort. For the first time ever, we expanded our writing team to include 5 incredible writers, plus a writer’s apprentice.
On Monday, October 18th, we’ll be holding a Facebook Live event where you can meet each of the writers, hear about the process of creating the show, and ask any questions about The Claw!
If you haven’t yet listened to the soundtrack or requested your ePerusal of Beat by Beat’s newest musical, click below to head on over to the show page:
https://www.bbbpress.com/musicals/the-claw/
#clawmusical #bbbpress
"The Claw" is now available for perusal and licensing! 🎉 Click below to listen to the entire soundtrack and download your free ePerusal:
https://www.bbbpress.com/musicals/the-claw/
"The Claw" is a completely original 45-minute musical written specifically for kids age 7-14. When an out-of-order claw game suddenly turns back on, the toys inside must learn what it takes to face the unknown.
If you're looking to revive your theatre program after a year and a half of virtual performances, this is the show for you! It's a hilarious and heartfelt story that explores how to deal with transitions, and finding the confidence within oneself to embrace change.
It has 10 songs, 23 characters, plus a flexible ensemble.
Written by Denver Casado, Jessica Penzias, Kerry Kazmierowicztrimm, Christyn Budzyna & Jack Mitchell
Apprentice: Eli Cohen
Orchestrations: Andrew Fox
Vocals: Zoe Glick, Sami Bray, Sydney Bell, Tayler Mettra, Samantha Joy Pearlman
https://www.bbbpress.com/musicals/the-claw/
Here is the finale of our online musical! Enjoy 🥰 ⭐ Musical Link ⭐ https://youtu.be/p4ZzqRfP_Xo
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💙 #repost • @instacarolinetimm Well sometimes you cry. Or all of the times (I) cry. Working on a lovely little online musical called Super Happy Awesome News and here’s a song I love. You might be feeling this way these days, too. Can’t all be sunshine and rainbows every day. #SuperHappyAwesomeNews thank you @bbbpress 🤗❤️ @portlanddramaclub #portlanddramaclub
Listen to the opening song from “Super Happy Awesome News!”, a new virtual musical that will be available for licensing Tuesday, June 16th, at 12pm EST! Performed by the extremely talented Sami Bray (School of Rock, National Tour) SUPER HAPPY AWESOME NEWS! Music & Lyrics by Denver Casado, Book by Jessica Penzias Two siblings launch rival good news networks and find themselves competing for the title of happiest news show. Soon, their correspondents are in a whirlwind of ecstatic musical reporting – from joyful weather forecasts, to cheerful cooking segments and blissful political updates! But, when vulnerability starts peeking through the euphoric facade, they’re left wondering: is there room for raw honesty on a super happy broadcast? This new virtual musical (designed specifically to be rehearsed and performed remotely), incorporates real stories from kids age 7-14 and offers a positive outlet for them to express their emotions. Available for perusal and licensing on June 16th, 2020 at www.bbbpress.com. Music Arrangements by Andrew Fox #superhappyawesomenews #bbbpress
Denver introduces the new eBook "Teaching Theatre Online" and gives a short teaser about our next virtual musical. http://www.bbbpress.com/teaching-theatre-online/
#repost • @_bpca Another #promo for our upcoming virtual children’s musical, “The Show Must Go Online”! May 29! . . . #comingsoon #littlerock #northlittlerock #beardenproductions #bpca #bbbpress @bbbpress #virtualmusical #childrensmusical #nonprofit #501c3 #theater #theatre #childrenstheatre #musicaltheatre #musical #comedy
Join us for a LIVE chat on tips and tricks for producing "The Show Must Go Online" with Jaclyn Loewenstein. On May 5th, Class Act, a performing arts academy in Champaign, IL, premiered their full virtual production of The Show Must Go Online! Click below to watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk0NsOYD-M4 Since we know many of your are currently underway with your own virtual rehearsals, we thought it would be helpful to do a LIVE Q&A with Jaclyn Loewenstein, director and owner of Class Act, with tips and tricks she learned while putting the show together. We’ll be doing the interview LIVE on Monday, May 11th at 3pm EST at the link below: https://www.facebook.com/bbbpress/live/ We’ll cover topics like: - Casting - Virtual Rehearsals - Video submissions - Getting high-quality audio and video - Helpful software she used - Creating a virtual choir for the finale - Misc tips and tricks she learned - And any other questions you may have!
#repost • @i_heart_sct Get ready for “The Show Must Go Online” available for all to enjoy tomorrow! 🎭 Sponsored by The Kole Family Foundation, Inc. & @carlbpearlmd #iheartsct #bbbpress #theatrekids #theatreinsavannah #childrenstheatre #nonprofitorg
Dave Hudson, Denver Casado and Jessica Penzias are chatting about how they created "The Show Must Go Online - A Virtual Children's Musical". Join us! There will be a short Q&A at the end.
Gracia Wright, an 8th grader at Christian Heritage School in Dalton, GA, rehearses “The Show Must Go Online” What a joy to see the incredible talent that’s getting revealed through these virtual productions. #theshowmustgoonline http://www.bbbpress.com/musicals/the-show-must-go-online/
#repost • @whirligigstage Cast Reveal for our first online production “The Show Must Go Online”! We can’t wait to start rehearsal with these talented folks! #WhirligigYouthAcademy #TheShowMustGoOnlineBBB #defyingcavities
Introducing the world's first musical that can be rehearsed and performed remotely.
We're doing very important work over here. #defyingcavities #theshowmustgoonline Courtesy of Andrew Fox
We answer some FAQ about "The Show Must Go Online", a virtual children’s musical that will be available for instant download on Monday, April 6th at 9AM EST at www.bbbpress.com. "The Show Must Go Online" is the world's first children’s musical specifically written to be rehearsed and performed remotely. Each actor will receive a 1 minute monologue/song to rehearse, video record, and upload. When all the videos are played in order, they tell the hilarious story of a group of passionate students desperate to keep their musical alive...online! Join our mailing list to receive all the latest updates regarding the show: http://www.bbbpress.com/community Book by Jessica Penzias Lyrics by Dave Hudson Music by Denver Casado
Take a listen to a song from "The Show Must Go Online!", a virtual children’s musical that can be rehearsed and performed remotely. We're writing this as fast as we can to get it out to you ASAP! Here's how this show works: Written for a cast of 20, each actor will receive a 1 minute monologue or song to rehearse, video record, and upload remotely. When all the videos are played in order, they tell the hilarious story of a group of passionate students desperate to keep their musical alive...online! Coming to www.bbbpress.com as soon as we can write it. Make sure to follow us on FB and join our mailing list below to receive the latest updates: http://www.bbbpress.com/community/ Book by Jessica Penzias Lyrics by Dave Hudson and Denver Casado Music by Denver Casado
It breaks our heart to hear that so many theatre performances have been postponed or cancelled. This means there are so many actors out there that won’t have a chance for a final performance. So we wanted to come up with a way to help, and at Beat by Beat we thought we’d do what we do best…write a musical! We're currently working on the world's first children's musical specifically written to be rehearsed and performed remotely. Each actor will receive a 1 minute scene/song to rehearse, video record, and upload. When all the videos are played in order, they tell the hilarious story of a group of passionate students desperate to keep their annual musical alive...online! Let us know in the comments if this is something you'd be interested in! The show is being created by Denver Casado, Dave Hudson and Jessica Penzias, and will be released as soon as we can write it!
Special announcement...sound on! 🔊🎵
A great video from “Tut, Tut!” At Cresskill Public Schools. ⭐️✨ #bbbpress
A great video from Hillside Elementary’s production of Space Pirates!! Way to go!! ✨💛 #bbbpress #spacepirates
A Sneak Peek of the Minnieville Drama Club's performance of Journey of the Noble Gnarble. 👍🏻✨ Congrats on a great show!! #bbbpress
Here's a fun and simple improv game to help your students create specific "environments" within their improv scenes. This is one of 23 bonus videos from our upcoming release "Teaching Improv: The Essential Handbook" available for download on April 1, 2019!
Fun video from “We Are Monsters”! ✨💚 #bbbpress #theaterlover #theaterquotes #wearemonsters #RepostPlus @spchcomm - - - - - - Just a little proud. #theatremom #wearemonsters
We loved seeing Lusitânia Primary School in Zimbabwe’s video of their first full Musical — Tut Tut!! Looks like it was a lot of fun!! #bbbpress #theaterlover #theaterkids #tuttut
Rehearsals underway for another great production of Sally Sells Seashells (And You Can, Too)!! 🐚🌊 #bbbpress #theaterlover #theaterkids #RepostPlus @swells204 - - - - - - Woodbury Heights Children’s Theater rehearsing for their upcoming show. Tickets are on sale now! Beat by Beat Press #sallysellsseashells
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Beat by Beat Press was founded by a group of award-winning writers and educators from New York City with an artistic spirit and a passionate objective: to create high-quality musicals with fresh stories and characters specifically written for performers ages 7-14. We founded Beat by Beat Press after listening to parents, teachers and directors tell us that they don’t want just another fairytale adaptation or repacked adult musical. They want meticulously crafted shows built from the ground up for young performers.
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