BSoBW2,
My partner Kevin Murphy and I had been pretty strict about releasing the stage version rights while we were making and marketing the movie. The latter is something that's still going on a bit, as it's playing/about to play in foreign markets. In fact, I *think* it opens on the big screen in France in just a couple of months. It was interesting that the night we won the Emmy here in the U.S., we won the premiere audience award in France at the Deauville Film Festival -- it was like, wow, same night, two different continents, two different media, two different awards. Our director was out in France while we were in Los Angeles. I'd say he got the cooler all-expenses-paid trip!
But... we *have* opened it up to amateur/stock/regional theatres on a case by case basis. We have over a hundred requests, so it's pretty difficult to manage on our own. In any event, we're in talks with some of the big publishing companies now to handle these things -- both for the rights and for the actual sheet music.
We're also making an "alternate version" of the stage show, because we get a lot of requests to include the song we won the Emmy for.
Finally, we're talking to a botique musical theatre label about releasing the movie soundtrack.
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