Submit a Show!
If you've written a musical and would like to find out "what you've got," YOU'VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!
MainStreet's Evaluation Program provides creative teams with detailed constructive feedback from professional directors and dramaturgs who determine whether musicals aresufficiently stageworthy to warrant their inclusion in the MainStreet Library.
Launched in 1984, MainStreet's Evaluation Program remains the core of all MainStreet activities.When you submit your work, it will be critiqued by MainStreet Evaluators (professional directors and dramaturgs), and you will receive the critical analyses prepared. If an Evaluator identifies your work as “ready for development” and “Recommends" it, it will go into the Library of Recommended Works and its materials will be posted in the Library on the MainStreet website.
The Evaluation Program Has No Deadlines. For general questions, contact info@mainstreetmusicals.org.
Instructions for Submitting a Show (click to expand)
WELCOME: These Instructions pertain whether you are submitting your materials via the Internet or by mail.
SUBMITTER MUST BE A MEMBER OF THE CREATIVE TEAM.
EACH SUBMISSION WILL RECEIVE ONE OR TWO EVALUATION REPORTS PREPARED BY
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORS, MEMBERS OF MAINSTREET’S EVALUATION COMMITTEE.
If the first Evaluator “Recommends” the Submission, it will immediately be posted in the Library.
If the first Evaluator does not “Recommend” the Submission, it will receive a second Evaluation.
- Please read carefully. This document constitutes the only agreement you will have with MainStreet Musicals, Inc.
- Provide the show information, as well as all requested PDFs and Zip files via the linked form below. Files must be labeled correctly. Refer to the instructions contained in the form.
- With this submission, you represent and guarantee that THE INDIVIDUALS LISTED BELOW HAVE SOLE
OWNERSHIP RIGHTS TO THIS MUSICAL ("WORK").
UNDERSTANDING:
You understand that in submitting this work you are agreeing to give MainStreet Musicals, Inc. ("MainStreet ") non-exclusive rights to read and evaluate your work and to enter it, at MainStreet’s sole option, in any competition that MainStreet is generating or participating in.
In the past MainStreet has launched the following competitions:
- DIRECTORS’ CHOICE AWARDS (DCA):
Recommended Works are entered as contestants in Mainstreet’s Directors’ Choice Awards competition. Finalists and winners receive presentations and other benefits. - BROADWAY BOUND: A national competition for theatre majors, college seniors and post-grads.
Contestants will compete performing songs harvested from DCA finalists.
PLEASE NOTE: For the sake of objectivity, it would be better to redact your names on the materials. You will not learn the names of your evaluators.
TERMS: If your work is “Recommended” and becomes a finalist or winner of a competition and is awarded a concert-reading presentation, you will be informed of any and all presentation schedules. Your presence at these performances is encouraged but you must make those arrangements yourself with the relevant MainStreet Affiliates.
Please understand that MainStreet Affiliates reserve the right to make all final decisions regarding performance location and casting. Affiliates may wish to consult with you regarding minor changes they feel are necessary and reasonable in the ordinary course of preparation. MainStreet will facilitate those inquiries. It is not MainStreet’s policy to require or request from you any additional fees or covering costs involved in preparing and performing the concert-readings of your work. Affiliates will cover them.
NOTE: The entire purpose of MainStreet’s “use" of your work is to enhance its chances of being optioned and produced. MainStreet will not be involved in the production of this work beyond its possible inclusion in the above referenced MainStreet programs.