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| Featuring Songs by (in alphabetical order): Lynn Ahrens • Kristen Anderson-Lopez • Benny Andersson • Billie Joe Armstrong • Howard Ashman • Sara Bareilles • Lionel Bart • Jerry Bock • Leslie Bricusse • Jason Robert Brown • Johnny Burke • Martin Charnin • Mindi Dickstein • Jack Feldman • Stephen Flaherty • Matthew Gerrard • Zina Goldrich • Green Day • Sheldon Harnick • David Hein • Marcy Heisler • Jason Howland • Herbert Kretzmer • Jonathan Larson • Alan Jay Lerner • Frank Loesser • Frederick Loewe • Robert Lopez • Alan Menken • Tim Minchin • Robbie Nevil • Anthony Newley • Benj Pasek • Justin Paul • Tim Rice • Irene Sankoff • Dick Scanlan • Claude-Michel Schönberg • Stephen Schwartz • Marc Shaiman • Richard M. Sherman • Robert B. Sherman • Glenn Slater • Stephen Sondheim • Charles Strouse • Jeanine Tesori • Björn Ulvaeus • Jimmy Van Heusen • Frank Wildhorn • Scott Wittman • |
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| ALL TOGETHER NOW! Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.co.uk • www.mtishows.com • www.mtishows.com.au |
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Theatres around the world unite this weekend to perform All Together Now! - A Global Event Celebrating Local Theatre. This worldwide event celebrates the return of live theatre and allows organizations to locally produce and perform an exclusive musical revue featuring songs from MTI’s beloved shows. Participating organizations have been granted the unique opportunity to license as a fundraiser for their theatre and perform it live, live-streamed, or a combination of both over a four-day period from November 12 – 15, 2021.
Song List
1. "Pure Imagination" from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, Book by David Greig
Performed by Jacob Arkin (vocals), Eric Gant (piano)
2. "Writing Down the Story of My Life" from Junie B. Jones, The Musical
Music by Zina Goldrich, Book and Lyrics by Marcy Heisler
Performed by Ellie Vance with Sammy Crume and Lucy Scalese (vocals), Eric Gant (piano)
3. "Middle of a Moment" from Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach
Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Book by Timothy Allen McDonald
Performed by Chloe Witherspoon (vocals), Eric Gant (piano)
4. "We're All in This Together" from Disney’s High School Musical
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil, Music and Lyrics by Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil
Performed by Tatum Powell and Claire Thompson, DCP Travel Team and OBC Singers (vocals), DCP Travel Team (dance), Eric Gant (piano)
5. "Tomorrow" from Annie
Music by Charles Strouse, Lyrics by Martin Charnin, Book by Thomas Meehan
Performed by Bryn Bollins and Rylan Ragan (vocals), Eric Gant (piano)
6. "The Human Heart" from Once on This Island
Music by Stephen Flaherty, Book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Performed by Lisset and Judith Rodes (vocals) with their Quarantine Quartet (Mick Kinney, Elisa Witt), Irina Vazquez (violin)
7. "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, Book by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg
Performed by Sofia Satterfield (vocals), Eric Gant (piano)
8. "Seize the Day" from Newsies
Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Jack Feldman, Book by Harvey Fierstein
Performed by Ben Schaeffer with Jacob Arkin, Nyx Crume, Ashe Spears and Will Vance (vocals), DCP Travel Team (dance), Eric Gant (piano)
9. "Children Will Listen" from Into the Woods
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by James Lapine
Performed by Braden North-Spingola (vocals), Sue Buccholz (piano)
10. "When I Grow Up" from Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Music and Lyrics by Tim Minchin, Book by Dennis Kelly
Performed by Nyx Crume, Sammy Crume, Ava Garner, Lucy Scalese and Will Vance (vocals), Eric Gant (piano)
11. "Take a Chance on Me" from Mamma Mia!
Music and Lyrics by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, Book by Catherine Johnson
Performed by Ashe Spears with Tatum Powell, Orion Snook and Claire Thompson (vocals), Eric Gant (piano)
12. "Let It Go" from Disney’s Frozen
Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, Book by Jennifer Lee
Performed by Isabelle Fishbein (vocals), Eric Gant (piano)
13. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins
Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, Book by Julian Fellowes
Performed by Emily Saliers, Cleo Saliers, Bryn Bollins (vocals) with DCP Travel Team (dance), Eric Gant (piano)
14. "Beautiful City" from Godspell
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, Book by John-Michael Tebelak, Conceived and Originally Directed by John-Michael Tebelak
Performed by Charlie Bailey (vocals), Becky Duvall (piano)
15. "Seasons of Love" from Rent
Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
Performed by Ben Schaeffer and Sylvie Carnathan, DCP Travel Team and OBC Singers (vocals), Eric Gant (piano)
Creative Team
Shell Ramirez
Jonathan Bryant
Melissa Gouinlock
David Fluker
Sam Vellines
Lauren Colwell
Ash Hawkins
Laura Johnson
About Decatur Community Players
Decatur Community Players is a children’s musical theatre troupe founded in 2009, providing year round performing arts instruction for children ages 5 to 17. We offer an award-winning after school programs, summer and school break camps, and every January we participate in the Junior Theater Festival. Our mission is to include every child who wishes to be involved in a performing arts program, regardless of their level of experience. We strive to inspire imagination and cultivate creativity both on stage and off, while helping children develop communication skills, self esteem and team work. We believe the children should be involved with every aspect of production and we encourage their input whenever possible.
We offer several programs:
Foundations After School, Mon- Fri, 3-6 pm with walking pickup from Talley Upper Elementary.
Apprentice Conservatory - performance troupe, weeknights 6:15-7:45, grades 6-12
Travel Team - Saturdays during the Fall Semester
Saturday Classes - performance troupes for grades K-5 and 5-12.
Visit our website at www.DCPkids.org
About Oakhurst Baptist Church
Oakhurst is an inclusive congregation that welcomes people of all ages, gender-identities, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities, various physical and mental abilities, and other distinctions.
We believe we are on a spiritual journey together, learning as we go, and you do not need to have or subscribe to a certain set of beliefs to journey along with us.
We take “doing church right” very seriously, but we also think that includes laughing a LOT and having fun together as we explore our authentic selves and strive “To know and be known!”
Discover the exciting new visions we have for our space and how you can be a part of it.
Eric Gant
DCP would like to extend a special thank you to our pianist, Eric Gant, who took this on with only 3 weeks to learn all the songs! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! If you need an extraordinary and versatile musician or an excellent piano tuner, he's your man! Contact Information:
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Just Bakery
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Just Bakery of Atlanta is a non-profit that partners with our neighbors who resettled as refugees on paid job training, professional certification, and a living wage. We bake with local and sustainable ingredients whenever possible and work to build a more diverse, compassionate, and connected community for all.
Just Bakery was founded to be a creative and viable option for next steps in the long-term resettlement process by providing opportunities for our partners to build economic security as they recreate home in the Atlanta area.
Meet the Company
Shell Ramirez
Jonathan Bryant
Melissa Gouinlock
David Fluker
Sam Vellines
Lauren Colwell
Ash Hawkins
Laura Johnson
Articles
MTI's Free Musical, ALL TOGETHER NOW, Is Now Available for Licensing
Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) has just announced that theatres around the world can now license All Together Now! - A Global Event Celebrating Local Theatre. This worldwide event celebrates the return of live theatre and allows organizations to locally produce and perform an exclusive musical revue featuring songs from MTI's beloved shows over the weekend of November 12-15, 2021.
MTI's All Together Now! is entirely free-of-charge to license with no royalty or rental fees. Participating organizations may license MTI's All Together Now! as a fundraiser for their theatre and perform it live, live-streamed, or a combination of both over a four-day period from November 12 - 15, 2021.
Licensees will also receive a number of MTI's innovative theatrical resources to help with rehearsals, marketing and performances - all completely free.
"The excitement for All Together Now! among our customers is growing by the day," said Drew Cohen President and CEO of MTI Worldwide. "Our theatre industry colleagues have also been incredibly supportive and we are thrilled to have a growing roster of Partners (listed below) contributing from so many disciplines within the professional theatre community. This is truly a collaborative effort, and we are all extremely excited that any and every type of theatre from schools to the pros has the opportunity to produce MTI's All Together Now! in their communities."
MTI's Chief Operating Officer and Director of Education & Development, John Prignano remarked that, "We've streamlined our licensing process for this special event and there are no restrictions or limits on how many theatres in a particular geographical area can license the revue. Instead, we hope that as many theatres as possible produce the revue on their own, or come together with other organizations in their communities to mount a joint production. We also wanted to give theatres as much creative input as possible. The revue can be presented as a concert-like performance or groups can fully stage, choreograph and costume each song as it is presented in the full version of the show. Theatres are encouraged to feature as diverse a cast as possible, in order to reflect the composition of the entire community. All Together Now! is about bringing people back to the theatre, whether as audience members or cast, crew and musicians. Productions will benefit from a variety of races, genders, abilities, body types, and sizes, so we encourage groups to spread diversity as best they can across all the roles in the production."
Theaters Around the World Get Ready to Present MTI's ALL TOGETHER NOW!
Theaters around the world are coming all together... soon. Next weekend, November 12-15, theatrical licensor Music Theatre International launches All Together Now!: A Global Event Celebrating Local Theatre. This worldwide fundraising event celebrates the return of live theatre and allows organizations around the world to locally produce and perform an exclusive musical revue featuring songs from MTI's beloved shows.
Many renowned MTI authors, their estates and rightsholders have contributed songs from their iconic musicals to the revue including Stephen Schwartz; Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty; Cameron Mackintosh; Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg & Herbert Kretzmer; Disney Theatrical Group; Frank Loesser; Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe; Tim Minchin; Jonathan Larson; Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman; Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley; Leslie Bricusse & Frank Wildhorn; Charles Strouse & Martin Charnin; Marcy Heisler & Zina Goldrich; and many more.
BroadwayWorld recently checked in with three participating theatre-makers from all over the world: Pamela Mackie from Rubber Chicken Theatre in Dunblane, Scotland; Robert Clark from Joint Productions in Queensland, Australia; and Shell Ramirez from Decatur Community Players in Georgia.
How does it feel to be involved in something at such a global scale?
SR: That's actually what inspired me to give 100% of the profit to non- profit refugee organizations. My theatre company has survived from the support of my community. I am located 10 miles from the CDC so I have had access to people that are in the know. I was able to open June 2020 so when this came around I was able to help just like so many helped me during this crazy time.
PM: To be involved in performing with so many other people worldwide is really a bit special. After almost two years of working on virtual projects, remotely, or distanced outside or whatever, that feeling of coming together with other theatres across the globe is incredible. It makes you realize how big and how positive the theatre world really is.
RC: Representing a collective of theatre practitioners from Southeast Queensland for a project that is on this grand scale is exciting, challenging and inspiring. The global reach of MTI and this production drives us to present a performance worthy of the world stage. Our production has attracted significant attention from the community all the way up to our State's Premier. We are creating something wonderful and it feels good.
What has the response from your community been like at the news that you'd be working on All Together Now?
PM: We've had so much love, support and enthusiasm for what we're doing - we did so much virtual theatre over lockdown that we have lots of new performers who are now joining us in person to rehearse and it's been lovely to see that come together. Dunblane is quite a small community, but we've a big heart and have people joining us from all across Scotland to take part, some people who've moved away to study musical theatre coming back for it and loads more. There's a real positive energy around the whole thing and the choice of songs and range of music is so great that everyone has loved getting their teeth back into live rehearsing.
SR: Well I have brought out some amazing players to not only support but collaborate! A local church is going to perform a few songs with my theatre kids and also gave us free usage of their space. A local politician is helping us get the free advertising. Our local paper is writing a story. And our biggest neighborhood celebrity Emily Sailers of the Indigo Girls will be singing with her daughter and one of our theatre kids!
RC: The attraction to this production has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic. Everyone is so excited by the initiative and our efforts to unite our regions musical theatre enthusiasts in one big show! Hundreds turned out to audition and take part with many more simply wanting to be involved at any level; costumes, sets, lighting and sound. As a result we have a cast size that matches the scale of the production. 70 performers and 20 musicians plus our wonderful crew.
Are you doing anything particularly unique with your production?
RC: Typically each theatre company within the southeast Queensland region works individually but for All Together Now we have come together for this celebratory event and to share our love of live performance and musical theatre. Professional actors and singers are performing alongside community theatre companies and children; bringing this production to life in our region. We are presenting our show at one of the biggest theatres in our State, The Star Gold Coast who have been most supportive!
PM: I think the biggest thing for us is our age range. We're not a theatre school, or big theatre - we describe ourselves as a performing arts family, open to all. Our youngest performer in All together Now is 4, our oldest in their 80s and everywhere in between. It's lovely seeing everyone come together and the reactions from our adults to our little kids singing 'Tomorrow' to our teen newsies, to the power in the harmonies from our full ensemble.
SR: We are having people speak of how their organization is helping the community of displaced individuals. Our theatre company was created at the International Community School and they will be there with a current student and a previous student who is now working at the school. We are also having a speaker from Just Bakery that employs and helps refugees learn a trade while and make money. These will happen before and after the musical numbers. We are currently working on having a live audience and then we will have tents outside with more information on each organization. We will be splitting 100% of the proceeds with the organizations and also the IRC and the global village project.
What does it mean to you/your organization to be given an opportunity like this by MTI?
PM: MTI have been great over the pandemic, we've performed virtual shows, filmed remotely, streamed old performances and so much more and their support has been amazing. This opportunity gives us the chance to celebrate everything we've done, while moving back to live indoor performance in a way that lets us include everyone, showcase some amazing music and just have fun with it. To have that chance to have the resources, the arrangements, the rehearsal tracks etc etc without the financial pressure at the end of such a difficult period is awesome.
SR: This has opened my ability to be a better community activist for the arts. We have lost several arts programs in my area. I feel inspiring children with causes while learning the amazing world of theatre is key to developing empathy. Giving back is always a win and MTI offering this give back weekend is such a great idea! I am delighted that I decided to get the licensing. Plus the app has made it so easy to spread out our rehearsals with three groups rehearsing apart.
RC: This opportunity has enabled us to collaborate with other theatre groups and to meet and work with a host of new performers who would not normally work together. Our organization has made wonderful new friends and contacts and given many young performers an opportunity to get back on stage after such a long time in the dark.
What are you most looking forward to with the rest of the ATN process?
SR: The impact of money to these organizations is huge so any amount of money will be amazing but getting out the word for what they do is priceless. I have always been willing to do the work of helping and that is what I hope others see and it might inspire the change I want to see in the world. I am also thrilled on the musical choices of so many shows and my kids are loving working on some of their favorite songs! I am also kinda of excited to watch Emily with my kids. She is the most giving artist I have ever meet and has been so kind to my excited ramblings. I am really enjoying the process of inviting and introducing people to what I live most. Musical Theatre. Music improves the world and a song often helps you understand your feelings. Having the gift to share songs with people from such a variety of musicals and a performance with an audience is a sunrise from a dark time in the theatre world.
RC: Celebrating the efforts of everyone involved in this production and spreading the love and joy that is musical theatre to our audience. Also, re-igniting the passion for live performance and introducing some of the wonderful new talent that has been uncovered in our production.
PM: I can't wait to see all the choreography, harmonies, solos etc all come together into a cohesive performance - We've all seen bits together, but that moment when we run the whole thing is going to be incredible. It's been such a long time coming. Theatre holds a special place in all our hearts, and to be able to invite an audience back to that place is incredible.
For more information about All Together Now!, visit: http://www.alltogethernowMTI.com
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