
Powerful Contemporary Musicals
9 Apr
Contemporary musicals to give your audience an unforgettable experience!
We're thrilled to share our dynamic collection of critically acclaimed musicals. Whether you're seeking bold contemporary stories, or innovative genre-bending productions, this selection offers something unforgettable for every audience.
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Dave Malloy
Full Length Musical, Drama, 19th Century
Cast: 5M, 5F, 6M/F
An electropop opera ripped from a slice of Tolstoy's War & Peace -- this award-winning musical expands the possibilities for the genre with its daring score and bold storytelling. Young and impulsive, Natasha Rostova arrives in Moscow to await the return of her fiancé from the front lines. When she falls under the spell of the roguish Anatole, it is up to Pierre, a family friend in the middle of an existential crisis, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation.
CRITIC'S PICK! "A witty, inventive enchantment from rousing start to mournful finish. It is both the most innovative and the best new musical to open on Broadway since Hamilton!" -- The New York Times
Photo: Witch Music Theatre New Zealand Premiere
Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill: The Musical
Book by Diablo Cody. Music by Alanis Morissette. Music by Glen Ballard.
Full Length Musical, Drama, Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
Cast: 5M, 7F
Based on Alanis Morissette's world-changing music, this Tony and Grammy Award-winning new musical about a perfectly imperfect American family is brimming with joy, strength, love, courage and life.
"Jagged Little Pill burns with passion. I want to see it again and again." -- Rolling Stone
Ride the Cyclone
Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell
Full Length Musical, Dark Comedy, Contemporary
Cast: 4M, 3F
In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other -- the chance to return to life. A funny, moving look at what makes a life well-lived!
"FOUR STARS! Quirky, bizarre, emotionally hefty and rather tantalizing... RIDE THE CYCLONE is poised to take the musical world by storm." -- Chicago Tribune
Photo: Hayes Theatre Co. Australian Premiere
Flowers for Mrs Harris
A musical by Richard Taylor and Rachel Wagstaff
Based on the novel by Paul Gallico
Full Length Musical, Drama, 1940s
Cast: 4M, 6F
For Ada Harris, day-to-day life is spent cleaning houses. But when she happens upon something that takes her breath away, she sets off on a journey that will change her life... From the cobbled streets of post-war London to the magical avenues of Paris and beyond, Ada transforms the lives of everyone she meets along the way, but can she let go of her past and finally let her own life blossom?
"A Cinderella story sewn into our world." -- WhatsOnStage
Bright Star
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell
Full Length Musical, Drama, Comedy, 1920s, 1940s / WWII
Cast: 9M, 6F
Inspired by a real event and featuring the Grammy-nominated score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Broadway's Bright Star tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and '40s. An uplifting theatrical journey that holds you tight in its grasp, Bright Star is as refreshingly genuine as it is daringly hopeful.
SIX: TEEN EDITION
Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss
Full Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day, 16th Century / Elizabethan
Cast: 6F
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a Euphoric Celebration of 21st-century girl power! This new original musical is the global sensation that everyone is losing their head over.
We're thrilled to share our dynamic collection of critically acclaimed musicals. Whether you're seeking bold contemporary stories, or innovative genre-bending productions, this selection offers something unforgettable for every audience.
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Dave Malloy
Full Length Musical, Drama, 19th Century
Cast: 5M, 5F, 6M/F
An electropop opera ripped from a slice of Tolstoy's War & Peace -- this award-winning musical expands the possibilities for the genre with its daring score and bold storytelling. Young and impulsive, Natasha Rostova arrives in Moscow to await the return of her fiancé from the front lines. When she falls under the spell of the roguish Anatole, it is up to Pierre, a family friend in the middle of an existential crisis, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation.
CRITIC'S PICK! "A witty, inventive enchantment from rousing start to mournful finish. It is both the most innovative and the best new musical to open on Broadway since Hamilton!" -- The New York Times
Photo: Witch Music Theatre New Zealand Premiere
Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill: The Musical
Book by Diablo Cody. Music by Alanis Morissette. Music by Glen Ballard.
Full Length Musical, Drama, Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
Cast: 5M, 7F
Based on Alanis Morissette's world-changing music, this Tony and Grammy Award-winning new musical about a perfectly imperfect American family is brimming with joy, strength, love, courage and life.
"Jagged Little Pill burns with passion. I want to see it again and again." -- Rolling Stone
Ride the Cyclone
Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell
Full Length Musical, Dark Comedy, Contemporary
Cast: 4M, 3F
In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other -- the chance to return to life. A funny, moving look at what makes a life well-lived!
"FOUR STARS! Quirky, bizarre, emotionally hefty and rather tantalizing... RIDE THE CYCLONE is poised to take the musical world by storm." -- Chicago Tribune
Photo: Hayes Theatre Co. Australian Premiere
Flowers for Mrs Harris
A musical by Richard Taylor and Rachel Wagstaff
Based on the novel by Paul Gallico
Full Length Musical, Drama, 1940s
Cast: 4M, 6F
For Ada Harris, day-to-day life is spent cleaning houses. But when she happens upon something that takes her breath away, she sets off on a journey that will change her life... From the cobbled streets of post-war London to the magical avenues of Paris and beyond, Ada transforms the lives of everyone she meets along the way, but can she let go of her past and finally let her own life blossom?
"A Cinderella story sewn into our world." -- WhatsOnStage
Bright Star
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell
Full Length Musical, Drama, Comedy, 1920s, 1940s / WWII
Cast: 9M, 6F
Inspired by a real event and featuring the Grammy-nominated score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Broadway's Bright Star tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and '40s. An uplifting theatrical journey that holds you tight in its grasp, Bright Star is as refreshingly genuine as it is daringly hopeful.
SIX: TEEN EDITION
Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss
Full Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day, 16th Century / Elizabethan
Cast: 6F
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a Euphoric Celebration of 21st-century girl power! This new original musical is the global sensation that everyone is losing their head over.