Making A Musical
An inside look at how Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals are made. Emmy® award winner Jacki Thrapp discusses creating new work like her Off-Broadway show "Good Morning New York" and the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival's sold-out show "Lighthouse: An Immersive Drinking Musical. Hear tips, tricks and mistakes everyone is making along the way. Produced by Thrapp Theatrics.Podcasts
122. How To Produce A Solo Show At The Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Published: Dec. 28, 2023, 5:54 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 2 seconds
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121. Recording Music For An EP (Or two...)
Published: Dec. 21, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 1 second
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120. How The BroadwayWorld Awards Work
Published: Dec. 2, 2023, 8:05 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 59 seconds
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119. Yesterday's Price Is Not Today's Price
Published: Nov. 30, 2023, 10 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 1 second
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118. I'm Jealous Of Your Spotify Wrapped Streams
Published: Nov. 30, 2023, 6 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 55 seconds
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117. When Is It Time To Close An Off-Broadway Show?
Published: Sept. 14, 2023, 5:39 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 9 seconds
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116. How To Produce A Concept Album (Live from BroadwayCon)
Published: Aug. 24, 2023, 9:05 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 13 seconds
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115. How To Get Media Coverage For Your Show
Published: Aug. 22, 2023, 6:58 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 19 seconds
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114. Tony Awards Preview (2023)
Published: June 9, 2023, 8:07 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 4 seconds
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113. Back In Commerce City...
Published: June 9, 2023, 1:15 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 11 seconds
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112. How To Get Off-Broadway Producer Credit (with me!)
Published: June 1, 2023, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 33 seconds
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108. Making An Off-Broadway Budget
Published: April 27, 2023, 5:10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 46 seconds
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107. How To Get A Reading Of Your Play/Musical Produced (Feat. Caitlin McNeilage)
Published: April 20, 2023, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 54 seconds
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105. How To Produce A Show At The Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Published: April 14, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 44 seconds
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104. How To Get A Gig Working In The Broadway Community with Caitlin McNeilage
Published: April 13, 2023, 7 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 16 seconds
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103. What You Can Expect As Broadway Reopens (Feat. Bobby Allan)
Published: Sept. 9, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 37 seconds
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102. Hadestown Reopens On Broadway Today (Feat. Luke Sikora)
Published: Sept. 2, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 15 seconds
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101. How To Be Featured In The Broadway Community (with Tim Sebastian from 10glo.com)
Published: Sept. 17, 2020, 7:48 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 48 seconds
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100. HEADLINES: Seinfeld & Senator Schumer Push To "Save Our Stages"
Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 6:05 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds
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99. HEADLINES: Hanukkah Haunting Available Now + Experience A SEPARATE Graveyard Theatrical Experience
Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 5:35 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds
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98. HEADLINES: Joni Mitchell Musical in Development & Broadway Insurance Issue
Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 1:49 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 15 seconds
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97. HEADLINES: AEA Approves Three INDOOR Productions & Theatre Fans Press Snooze on "Sleepless" Advance Sales
Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 7:15 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 10 seconds
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96. HEADLINES: 2020 Tony Awards Going Digital & Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade To Be "Reimagined"
Published: Aug. 21, 2020, 4:18 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 35 seconds
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95. HEADLINES: Broadway Primetime Special + AMC Reopens With $0.15 Tickets
Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 6:33 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 24 seconds
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94. HEADLINES: Stream a LIVE Musical & How To Host An Online Reading
Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 12:49 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 29 seconds
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93. HEADLINES: "Doctor Who" Immersive Theatrical Event Comes To West End & Tony Awards Team Is Back
Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 3:58 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 37 seconds
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92. HEADLINES: Andrew Lloyd Webber Gets Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine, Diana Heads To Netflix & A Socially Distanced Concert
Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 4:34 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 6 seconds
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91. NY State Liquor Authority Bans Comedy Shows But Not Live Music (SERIOUSLY!?!?)
Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 11:23 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 7 seconds
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90. How To Make Money Streaming Your Play
Published: July 2, 2020, 7:27 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 4 seconds
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89. LIGHTS OUT: How To Bring Back Broadway
Published: June 5, 2020, 5:47 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 21 seconds
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88. How To Produce An Audio Drama During The Coronavirus Pandemic
Published: May 29, 2020, 11:50 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 48 seconds
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87. LIGHTS OUT: Broadway Theatres Dark Until September 6th
Published: May 13, 2020, 6:48 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 39 seconds
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86. LIGHTS OUT: Theatre Venues Permanently Shut Down
Published: May 7, 2020, 8:19 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 27 seconds
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85. LIGHTS OUT: Broadway Reopening In June? Not Likely!
Published: April 8, 2020, 9:43 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 20 seconds
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84. LIGHTS OUT: A New Era Of Broadway
Published: March 27, 2020, 7:27 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 35 seconds
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83. LIGHTS OUT: Exclusive Obie Awards Statement, Free Streaming & Fundraising (Feat. Andy Danish)
Published: March 16, 2020, 5:53 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 18 seconds
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82. LIGHTS OUT: Emojiland Ends Run Early, Off-Broadway Theaters Suspend Performances Until Mid-April (Feat. Theatre Reporter Shoshana Medney)
Published: March 14, 2020, 4:13 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 22 seconds
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81. LIGHTS OUT: Broadway Goes Dark
Published: March 12, 2020, 10:34 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 16 seconds
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80. LIGHTS OUT: Carnegie Hall Cancels All Performances, Broadway Usher Gets Coronavirus
Published: March 12, 2020, 6:12 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 13 seconds
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79. LIGHTS OUT: Broadway Shows Limit, Cancel Stage Door Meet-and-Greets Amid Coronavirus Fears
Published: March 10, 2020, 2:26 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 25 seconds
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78. Off-Broadway Producer Calls For Boycott Of Show Score
Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 56 seconds
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77. Demos vs. Off-Broadway Album (Feat. Jackson Bell)
Published: Jan. 23, 2020, 4:05 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 50 seconds
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76. Opening Night
Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 6:12 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 46 seconds
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75. New York Musical Festival Abruptly Shuts Down
Published: Jan. 3, 2020, 10:09 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 36 seconds
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74. January 1, 2020
Published: Jan. 1, 2020, 10:25 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 2 seconds
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73. WALK AND TALK: 12 Days
Published: Dec. 30, 2019, 11:13 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 16 seconds
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72. WALK AND TALK: 13 Days Until Opening (11 Days Until Previews)
Published: Dec. 30, 2019, 2:48 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds
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71. WALK AND TALK: 14 Days
Published: Dec. 29, 2019, 1:54 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds
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70. WALK AND TALK: 15 Days
Published: Dec. 27, 2019, 8:58 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 39 seconds
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69. The Most Shocking Rehearsal EVER! (Feat. Off-Broadway's Bobby Allan)
Published: Dec. 20, 2019, 4 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 36 seconds
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68. A Day In The Life As An Off-Broadway Producer (Feat. Broadway Producer Jana Shea)
Published: Dec. 16, 2019, 9:30 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 44 seconds
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67. Well, That Didn't Go As Planned...
Published: Dec. 14, 2019, 1:19 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 39 seconds
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66. Ticket Sales (Feat. Felisha Heng)
Published: Dec. 6, 2019, 12:03 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 49 seconds
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65. How To Get Into The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Feat. Broadway's cast of "Ain't Too Proud")
Published: Nov. 28, 2019, 5:30 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 18 seconds
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64. Meet The Man Behind The Music (Feat. Co-Composer Jackson Bell)
Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 4:31 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 19 seconds
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63. SATURDAY SHORT: The Public Theater
Published: Nov. 17, 2019, 4:20 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 8 seconds
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62. Swing Life (Feat. Darren Cementina)
Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 5:47 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 31 seconds
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61. Why West End Tickets Are Cheaper Than Broadway
Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 11:52 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 58 seconds
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60. Ask Me Anything (Feat. Therin Morrisey)
Published: Oct. 24, 2019, 4:55 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 26 seconds
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58. Bombshell Dossier Warns Of Suspected Scammer Accused Of Targeting NYC Women In The Arts
Published: Oct. 17, 2019, 12:57 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 30 seconds
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57. What Is The AEA's "Professional Name Protection" Rule? (feat. Therin Morrisey)
Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 1:01 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 45 seconds
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56. Producing & Recording An Album
Published: Oct. 3, 2019, 5:39 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 6 seconds
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55. Meet Off-Broadway's New Leading Lady... Christae Evanson!
Published: Sept. 26, 2019, 11:29 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 13 seconds
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54. SATURDAY SHORT: Let's Talk About Sleep
Published: Sept. 21, 2019, 12:39 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds
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53. Meet Off-Broadway's New Leading Man... Zach Holden!
Published: Sept. 19, 2019, 4:13 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 52 seconds
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52. SATURDAY SHORT: Rehearsals So Far
Published: Sept. 14, 2019, 2:51 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 16 seconds
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51. The Business Of Off-Broadway
Published: Sept. 12, 2019, 2:13 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 34 seconds
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50. SATURDAY SHORT: Sponsor Backdrops & Printing
Published: Sept. 7, 2019, midnightDuration: 15 minutes 26 seconds
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49. Casting for Off-Broadway
Published: Sept. 5, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 seconds
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48. What Is Jacki Doing?
Published: Aug. 7, 2019, 9:30 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 46 seconds
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48. Casting For Off-Broadway's Good Morning New York
Published: Aug. 7, 2019, 9:30 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 46 seconds
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47. Update from Falling Out
Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 8:18 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 12 seconds
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46. The Power of Instagram with Kara Jones
Published: July 20, 2019, 2:08 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 56 seconds
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45. How To Sell Your Music Online
Published: July 11, 2019, 11:22 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 46 seconds
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44. Therin Morrisey: A Look Inside a New York City Life
Published: June 26, 2019, 12:15 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 31 seconds
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43. Pit Musician's Perspective
Published: June 13, 2019, 7:05 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 19 seconds
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42. 2019 Tony Awards Preview
Published: June 8, 2019, 7:55 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 24 seconds
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41. Nashville Record Producers Talk Writing a Musical
Published: May 24, 2019, 10:33 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 44 seconds
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40. Original Sin Cider Presents: The Obie Awards Red Carpet Special
Published: May 22, 2019, 12:01 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 20 seconds
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39. INTRODUCING JOSEE - A Nashville Girl Who Can't Escape NYC
Published: May 16, 2019, 2:40 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 2 seconds
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38. How To Raise Money
Published: May 9, 2019, 10:43 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 17 seconds
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37. LIVE from The Tony Award Nominations (Special Guest Gayle King!)
Published: May 2, 2019, 12:49 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds
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36. We're Going To The Tony Awards
Published: April 27, 2019, 2:33 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds
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35. Why Jacki Is Taking The Summer Off (From Podcasting)
Published: April 25, 2019, 9:56 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 35 seconds
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34. A Musical About Star Wars
Published: April 11, 2019, 12:46 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 56 seconds
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33. We're Recording An Album
Published: April 4, 2019, 9:59 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 3 seconds
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32. IndieGoGo vs. Kickstarter
Published: March 28, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 56 seconds
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31. We Have Our First Sponsor!
Published: March 26, 2019, 2:50 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 25 seconds
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30. How To Get Taken Seriously At Networking Events When Guys Call Your Musical "Cute"
Published: March 21, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 36 seconds
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29. Copyright, Contracts & NDAs
Published: March 19, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 42 seconds
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27. Women's Day On Broadway
Published: March 13, 2019, 9:50 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 57 seconds
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26. Preparing To Pitch To Investors
Published: March 7, 2019, 3:34 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 41 seconds
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25. Financial Therapy For The Arts
Published: Feb. 28, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 15 seconds
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24. Q&A Producer/Writer Of The New Musical "Falling Out"
Published: Feb. 21, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 51 seconds
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23. Be More Chill's Co-Producer Talks About Producing A Broadway Show (Part 1)
Published: Feb. 13, 2019, 8:46 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 25 seconds
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22. Be More Chill's Co-Producer Talks About Producing A Broadway Show (Part 1)
Published: Feb. 7, 2019, 1:45 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds
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21. How Am I Supposed To Raise $13,000?
Published: Jan. 31, 2019, 5:10 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 54 seconds
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20. PODCAST TAKEOVER: The Director & Composer Take The Hot Seat
Published: Jan. 24, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 5 seconds
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19. How To Get An Off-Broadway Residency
Published: Jan. 17, 2019, 10 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 37 seconds
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18. Our Musical Opens In A Year! How are we filling the time?
Published: Jan. 9, 2019, 12:41 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 20 seconds
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17. Rewriting Our Musical
Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 8 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 16 seconds
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16. How To Schedule Rehearsals During The Holidays
Published: Dec. 13, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 58 seconds
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15. How To Get Produced At Feinstein's/54 Below
Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 44 seconds
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14. How To Get Off-Broadway Sponsors
Published: Nov. 29, 2018, 8 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 42 seconds
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13. How To Get Sponsors
Published: Nov. 22, 2018, 12:01 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 8 seconds
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12. How To Design & Sell Shirts To Raise Money (Without Spending Any Money)
Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 1:53 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 51 seconds
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10. Writing A Musical (Part 2)
Published: Nov. 1, 2018, 11:17 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 5 seconds
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9. Writing A Musical (Part 1)
Published: Oct. 25, 2018, 3 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 12 seconds
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8. Acting In A Non-Union Show
Published: Oct. 18, 2018, 1:22 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 41 seconds
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7. How To Get Free Costumes
Published: Oct. 11, 2018, 11:22 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 9 seconds
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6. It's Official! We Got Accepted Into An Off-Broadway Theater
Published: Oct. 4, 2018, 12:31 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 53 seconds
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5. Inside the Mind of a Director
Published: Sept. 27, 2018, 1:34 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 16 seconds
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4. Casting for Off-Off Broadway
Published: Sept. 20, 2018, 7:43 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 42 seconds
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3. Filling Seats & Making Money
Published: Sept. 12, 2018, 4:01 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 9 seconds
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2. Finding a Theatre
Published: Sept. 6, 2018, 12:24 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 20 seconds
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1. How To Get Started
Published: Sept. 5, 2018, 12:23 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 15 seconds
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