Spring Awakening Amateur rights?

[aces25]

Posted: 5/13/11 at 5:27pm

Does anyone know when MTI will release the rights? Right now they are just restricted.

[dumbosbigears]

Posted: 5/13/11 at 6:26pm

Well the Second National Tour is ending on Sunday, so it shouldn't be long now. Amateur rights for a show are only available when there is not a large professional production (i.e. Broadway, off-Broadway, National tours, etc.) going on.

There are no plans for another national tour so the rights are going to be released really soon.

[Mattt]

Posted: 5/14/11 at 11:36am

They have already been giving out the rights. The first non professional production will be in New Jersey in August. I know of productions of the show that will be going on all the way up to next Spring.

[lizliz]

Posted: 5/14/11 at 1:25pm

Actually, there are 4 US amateur productions that will go up before the one in Asbury Park, NJ -- MTI has a list of upcoming productions here: http://www.mtishowspace.com/pg/production/278/show

[pennydreadful]

Posted: 5/14/11 at 6:06pm

I'm just waiting for the high schools to start performing this one.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/15/11 at 11:35am

Sorry Dumbo you are mistaken. They will only restrict performances if the tour is going to be within a certain distance to your produciton within a certain time frame. Although under most circumstances, they won't release amatuer rights until the FIRST Nat'l tour is over. (assuming that the original run is no longer on b'way.)

About 10 years ago, my HS was granted the rights to Grease and had them pulled because a tour would have been coming to Boston around the same time.

If timing were different, or they were only going to Providence, nothing would have changed. Case in point, a few years later, we did Les Miz (among some of the first HS to do so.) and only a few weeks before our date a tour was in Providence.

[sbflyfan]

Posted: 5/15/11 at 1:02pm

Yay! Then maybe we can finally see a production where Moritz and Wendla don't die!

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 5/15/11 at 4:42pm

dramamama took the words out of my mouth.

We got screwed out of doing Into the Woods in High School, b/c the 02 revival was supposed to launch it's tour in Dallas...and then didn't.

[MichaelRhodus]

Posted: 5/15/11 at 5:03pm

Happened to us with Hairspray. I would guess that Spring Awakening will be available within another year or so.

[bwayfan7000]

Posted: 5/15/11 at 5:17pm

Based on the one place in my state that is doing it already, it's only going to the highest-caliber local theatres that typically get the rights to shows first.